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I was awake at midnight wondering why God told Israel they could eat some animals and not others. Sure, pigs are gross, but they taste delicious. Chickens are some of the nastiest creatures on earth, but they also taste delicious. Why one and not the other? 🤷‍♀️
 
I was awake at midnight wondering why God told Israel they could eat some animals and not others. Sure, pigs are gross, but they taste delicious. Chickens are some of the nastiest creatures on earth, but they also taste delicious. Why one and not the other? 🤷‍♀️
Why do people model their life after after a book that may or may not be a work of fiction
 
I was awake at midnight wondering why God told Israel they could eat some animals and not others. Sure, pigs are gross, but they taste delicious. Chickens are some of the nastiest creatures on earth, but they also taste delicious. Why one and not the other? 🤷‍♀️
Chickens. They are fuckin' mean!

I'm with you on this. I'm an equal opportunity carnivore. :D
 
I was awake at midnight wondering why God told Israel they could eat some animals and not others. Sure, pigs are gross, but they taste delicious. Chickens are some of the nastiest creatures on earth, but they also taste delicious. Why one and not the other? 🤷‍♀️
Maybe bry can tell us. I think he was there when they wrote the book.
 
I was awake at midnight wondering why God told Israel they could eat some animals and not others. Sure, pigs are gross, but they taste delicious. Chickens are some of the nastiest creatures on earth, but they also taste delicious. Why one and not the other? 🤷‍♀️
One possibilty I've read, and I have no idea how true or even provable it is, is that the religious customs might have come out of concerns for disease. It's not so much that God decided, "hey, I'm gonna let them eat chicken, but not shellfish," but that maybe a priest got sick after eating a shrimp salad, or maybe there was a disease that affected certain livestock, and it then became a cultural assumption that those animals would make you sick if you ate them. Once it was part of the culture, then when the oral traditions were finally cobbled together across the centuries, some traditions probably included something along the lines of, "God made these animals for eating, but these ones aren't," and that's what made it into the Torah. So it's possible that the prohibitions started as simple health advice (rightly or wrongly), and then morphed into a religious instruction later.
 
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