ONLY ruminant animals with divided hooves –– not man –– chew the cud. Cows and goats hardly chew their grass when first eaten. ONLY ruminant animals with divided hooves ...

The Torah in this week’s Parsha mandates that for animals to be kosher they must possess two characteristics – cloven hooves and chew the cud. (Leviticus 11:3) In contemporary times there is ...

That ecosystem shaped the rules of the Torah that determine which animals are permitted for eating. Mammals that chew their cud and have split hooves are kosher; all other land animals are not.

Parashat “Shemini” details the types of animals that are permitted to be eaten and the identifying signs that distinguish them. The Talmud expounds on the verse at the end of the portion ...

You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. There are some that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them. […] You must not eat their ...

Why did the Torah need to state that these non-kosher animals either chew their cud or have cloven hooves? After all, that’s not what makes them spiritually “unclean.” On the contrary ...

The Torah in this week’s portion mandates that for animals to be kosher they must possess two characteristics – cloven hooves and chew the cud. (Leviticus 11:3) In contemporary times there is ...

The Torah in this week’s parshah mandates that for animals to be kosher they must have cloven hooves and chew the cud (Leviticus 11:3). In contemporary times there is much ado about the impact ...