Shabot 6000: kosher

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Don't Eat The Brown Matzah

Before Passover, we remove all the chametz from our house. You can burn it, nullify it, or sell it. But don't eat it.

In the Closet

Shrimp, and all shellfish, are not kosher.

Time to Digest

Halachic sources suggest we wait at least six hours after eating meat before we eat dairy.

Play God

Genetic engineering may soon offer ways around the restrictive laws of kashrut. If there are halakhic changes, would you eat kosher pork? Or a brain-dead veal calf?

Biur chametz is the mitzvah of cleaning your house of all chometz, including bread, grain products and other non-OUP items, before Passover. It is customary to spend many days cleaning every nook and cranny of your home, to ensure that there is no trace of chametz left behind. Any chametz that is found must be sold or burned. Or you could donate your chametz, but that isn't nearly as fun.

Bangitout's Top Ten Signs You've Hired a Lame Pesach Housecleaner

One Man's Trash

Separating your trash into milchig and fleishig bins is by no means required by the laws of kashrut. In fact, I cannot think of an instance where this would make any sense. Yet I have heard tales of Super Jews who actually do this.

BangItOut.com's The Daily Bang lists this practice as one of 60 ways to appear frum & intellectual.

To Some Degree

Anyone who uses JDate should be familiar with the phrase "To some degree", just one of the menu options you can chose to describe your level of involvement in various aspects of Judaism.

Lobster, shrimp, and other seafood are not kosher.

Boon-dox

There are many streams of Judaism, ranging from secular to ultra-Orthodox. Among the most familiar are Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox. Some Jews may find their level of observence falls between two labels, like "Conservadox", a blend of Conservative and Orthodox philosophies.

Jewish Laws prohibit sex outside the context of marriage.

Fruitless

For the second night of Rosh Hashanah, it is customary to eat a new fruit that has not been eaten all season.

Fruit de Mer is pushing it.

Deer Season

Deer are an even-toed ungulate of the Ruminantia suborder.

Kosher only when slaughtered by shochet, not shotgun.

Shadow of Doubt

The groundhog, also known as a marmot, woodchuck, and whistle-pig, is a rodent and member of the squirrel family.

I say: groundhog, hamburger . . . what's the difference?

Happy Groundhog Day!

N-egg-ated

In accidental mixtures, the principle of bateil beshishim is applied--i.e., if a forbidden food accidentally falls into a pot wherein a permitted food is cooking, the permitted food is unaffected and remains edible if it is at least sixty times the volume of the forbidden food.

A blood spot in an egg is not kosher and could possibly render the entire egg not kosher.

* Also spelled bittul b'shishim