WHAT IS
KASHRUT?
KASHRUT is all the laws and regulations that establish the KOSHER or KASHER (suitable or allowed) status of food products.
Those laws are based on Jewish religious writings, mainly the Torah (the Pentateuch) whose purpose is to maintain the human spiritual state in connection with the Creator and creation.
ORIGIN OF THE REGULATIONS
MEAT OF MAMMALS:
Allowed are the ruminants animals and that have split hoofs, as is written on Vayikrá (Leviticus) 11, 2: 3: "Anyone who has a split hoof and split in two from top to bottom, and chews the cud among animals, that one you can eat ..."
Additionally, those animals that are suitable for consumption must take special care in their slaughter process, a subsequent review of their internal organs to determine their KOSHER status, and a special salinization bleeding process.
AQUATIC ANIMALS:
Those allowed have two signals: fins and scales. As is written in Vayikra (Leviticus) 11: 9: "These you can eat among those in the waters: everything that has fins and scales, in the waters of the seas and rivers"
POULTRY MEAT:
Regarding this classification, the Torah indicates which ones cannot be eaten, classifying the birds that are predators, scavengers, hunting in the air or wild. As it says in Vayikra (Leviticus) 11: 13-19: “And these you will abhor among the birds; They will not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the bearded vulture, and the sea eagle; and the kite, and the vulture, according to their species; and every raven after its kind; and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk, according to their species; and the owl, and the sea raven, and the ibis; and the vampire, and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture; and the stork and the heron, according to their species; and the wild rooster, and the bat. "
INSECTS AND REPTILES:
In these groups of animals, all are declassified to consume as it says in Vayikra (Leviticus) 11: 41,42: “Every creeping animal that creeps on the earth, he is an abomination, it will not be eaten. Everyone who walks on his belly, everyone who walks on all fours to a myriapod, all creeping animals that crawl on the earth will not eat them ... "
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:
Any product that grows on the ground is allowed to eat, including roots, bark, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds. Taking into account that they are free of insects, larvae, or eggs. As it says in Bereshit (Genesis) 1:29
“And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb that yields seed, which is on the face of all the earth; and every tree in which there is a fruit of a tree that bears seed, it will serve you to eat "
EGGS AND MILK:
Eggs and milk that come from allowed animals are allowed, but there are different review and supervision regulations to be able to consume them; On the other hand, an egg or milk that comes from an animal that is not kasher, its consumption is prohibited.
PROHIBITION OF MIXING MEAT AND DAIRY:
According to Kashrut regulations, it is not allowed to process a product with a mixture of meat and milk, nor to prepare it in utensils that do not correspond to its classification, that is, we do not prepare, cook or serve meat in dairy processing utensils or vice versa. The norm follows from three Torah citations that allegorically express this concept, according to Jewish tradition. Shemot (Exodus 23:19, Shemot (Exodus) 34:26 and Devarim (Deuteronomy 14:21): "You shall not cook the kid in its mother's milk"
