Why is it considered taboo for Jews to eat pork?
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xjimmyloudx
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Because the pig is seen as a dirty animal and there for unclean to eat, it is believed it will poison the soul.
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because supposedly God said so
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As far as Jews are concerned, because that's what their god told them. No other reason is required. . In practical terms, back when people and livestock lived all together and the toilet was basically anywhere you wanted to, pigs would eat human waste and this is how certain diseases are passed from humans to pigs back to humans etc., so it was a carrier of certain parasites.
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leviticus 11:26
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Here's an account that discusses the taboo over pork among both Jews and Muslims, by Christopher Hitchens: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=d61117b5-cb76-473d-84ed-044c59c291e9
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It is considered unclean...
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Jews are expected to keep the Torah's kosher laws. An animal is kosher if it has split hooves AND chews its cud. The Torah lists the only four species of animals that have only one and not the other of these two signs. Of those four, only the pig has "split hooves" (a.k.a. trotters), yet does not chew its cud. Interestingly, many Jews who don't keep Kosher still avoid pig. Somehow, it has come to represent the worst type of un-Jewish food. The philosophy behind this is along the lines of "you are what you eat". Looking at a pig, you might notice the "hooves" and believe it to be kosher. Only on closer inspection can you tell that it doesn't chew the cud. Pigs LOOK kosher, but they aren't. The most abhorrent thing in Judaism is someone who gives the impression of being religious/ holy, but is not.
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because at the time of the Israelites/Israel..God gave them the "unclean " animals they could not eat...the swine was one ... but was not kosher too that milk products could not be eaten with meats of any kind? this was unkosher?:)
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well I believe the kosher laws were written as the appropriate health code for the time in which they were written. That became tradition and now you follow the code even though it isn't needed today to honor your heritage and to get in touch with who you are and where you came from.
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Because it says not to in the Torah. Some things you do because you are told to and for no other reason. I have spoken to many rabbis on this issue and all give the same response. It has nothing do do with being dirty, etc. Only because it says not to in the Torah.
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