What Are Kosher and Kashrut

Shalom! This is the 11th in the series of defining terms for introduction to Judaism class. The topic is kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws. First of all kosher means fit for eating, kosher. We have the terms in front of you which we can send you as part of your program. Kasher is to make something kosher and you kasher your dishes, you kasher meat to make something kosher. Hechsher that is determining that something is kosher it is usually a sign on a package like in Chicago there be a “CRC” in a triangle or an “OU” very simple on a package that is the hechsher saying something that is kosher. Hashkaha that is the process of certifying something that is kosher, a mashgiah is the person who does the hashkaha by giving a hechscher. So, the mashgiah gives the hashkaha does the hashkaha to make, gives something a hechsher to make sure it is kosher. Shomer is the guard or mashgiah, shomer or mashgiah is the person who actually certify that is kosher make sure it is. Mekadish is to make something holy, now fleshek is something that is meat or it is a chicken, beef or poultry it is not fish or an egg that is something else that is called parve. But fleshek is something that is meat, mikvah is something that is milk it is dairy way milk products, yogurt, ice cream, milk, butter. Parve is something that has no meat or milk in it like fish or eggs or vegetables or fruit or grains. Shechita is the process of slaughtering animal properly to make that is kosher in there is a lot of rules about how to do shechita properly and it is based on a version do the rhyme and it says you shall slaughter the animal on the way I have told you. I have a video on kosher 101 which can help with a lot of these; the shochet is the guy who does the shechita to make sure that is slaughter properly the shochet. Glatt kosher is a series of extra rules basically established by the Hungarians in the 19th century requiring extra which we started with certain lesions on a long that normal kashruts supervision permitted that they did not and now the term used for extra kosher. A lot of people think you can only get glatt kosher I do not believe that is true but more and more the food industry is dominated on the kosher food industry by people who want glatt kosher. Holy of Israel is basically the same thing holy of Israel for milk products express strength you work supervision to make certain things happen some people only eat holy of Israel dairy products. Treifot, treifa, treif originally meant that is something was cut and therefore if an animal is cut in therefore if an animal is cut before it was slaughter properly cannot be killed today basically means anything that is not kosher, treif. It looks bad even if it is proper it may look bad in therefore probably you should stay away from it. Sudan mitzvah we have that before that is a meal a salvation of a mitzvah. Fins and scales that is the total requirement on Leviticus 11 and in Deuteronomy for things that swim in the water that can be eaten something with fins and scales can be anything tat swims in the water that does not fins and scales cannot be eaten like shrimp, lobster, mussels, sharks, dolphins, prawns, whales. To cut in half split rules that is the Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy requirements for animals. An animal that has split homes and choose it is cut free radically could be kosher if the shochet does schechita properly in the blood is drained and there is a shuck to make sure it is not disease and you can eat the high corner because of the verse in Genesis but the basic rule is chewing the cut and split hose like cows. Pigs are not okay. Milk and meat the series of probations from the verse do not --my mothers milk which tells us that we cannot cook meat milk together we can eat it together you have to wait a certain amount of time between the consumption of one to have the other. And blood, from the reason blood is here is because we prohibited from eating blood all the blood has to be drained in incase of liver boiled out before it can be consumed. So, those are the terms for the session on kashrut.