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To: Two Kids' Dad

Yeah, bit of trivia, but the Jewish prohibition against mixing dairy and meat comes from this practice.

The Torah specifically provides that a calf not be “boiled in its mother’s milk” because (IMHO) of the Cannanite practices. (Think about that next time you eat veal in cream sauce; I’m barely kosher, but that makes my skin crawl.)

It expanded to all meat and milk to avoid doing this by accident, but also because doing so, just in general, showed a disregard between life and death -— life giving milk being used as agent of death.

It’s a bit of a peak into the foulness that was the Cannanite culture.

People wondering why the early Hebrews were such hardcases forget what they were fighting.


27 posted on 09/03/2009 8:08:26 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

The babies of the Cannanites did not deserve death.


30 posted on 09/05/2009 7:50:45 AM PDT by TheFourthMagi
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