Kosher pork

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This is particularly interesting............

And yet on the other hand: COME ON! It's clearly cheating! XD HaShem didn't spell everything out for us in the Torah. In Exodus 23:19 where He prohibits the mixing of milk and meat, He said, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." That isn't taken to mean that He was speaking exclusively to goats and lambs, but applied to all clean animals. In this same way, where He prohibits the eating the pork, there is the letter of His law and then there's the spirit of its intention; and I cannot imagine that this workaround would be in any way in keeping with the teaching that's been handed down.

You are certainly entitled to hold whatever views you have on this matter. However, speaking frankly, to me as a Jew and as a rabbi, your chutzpah as a Christian in making determinations about Jewish scripture and Jewish law are rather off putting.

RabbiO,

Maybe you should explain why you think it is off putting instead of making Jude feel like an unwanted Christain here.

Maybe you should be more careful in interpreting what is being said. To say "your chutzpah ... is off putting" is to make an honest statement about how one feels when so confronted. Are you claiming that he does not have the right to hold such feelings? On what grounds? Why so disrespectful of those feelings? That, too, is off putting.