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 ...

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.

CLEVELAND — In the biblical book of Leviticus, the Lord tells Moses: “You may eat any land animal that has divided hoofs and that also chews the cud.” In Luke, the father celebrates the ...

The Torah, in Parshas Shemini identifies the two signs of a Kosher animal; מעלה גרה - it must chew its cud and מפרסת פרסה - have split hooves. It then identifies four animals that ...

an animal must have split hooves and chew its cud. Additionally, the Torah says that the pig, although it has split hooves, is not kosher since it does not chew its cud. Obviously the ...

The herd animals that are kosher are those with split hooves and that chew their cud. The text uses two phrases to indicate a split hoof. The first phrase, MaPhReSeTh PaRSaH (מפרסת פרסה ...