What is kosher?

Hahaha when i red the topic i thought for sure you were asking about some pickles!lol but i guess not.... and i cannot help you at all eccept that they have the star... wich is the star of david....i think:D.

Okay, I just have to point out that Kosher is a word that has a meaning that is not just about the Jewish Religion. Kosher is actually one of my favorite words. I use it all the time and people try to correct me because I don't use it when talking about food. So, everyone else answered you in regards to the Jewish Religion, but just in case you or anyone else doesn't know... here's the meaning behind the WORD Kosher. It is a Hebrew word. It does mean "ritually fit for use in the Jewish Law" but it also means "being proper, acceptable, or satisfactory" So basically Kosher food is proper for the Jewish law. But if you're going to school and you're wearing a string bikini that is certainly not Kosher.

Kosher means proper.To "keep kosher" means that you eat what a proper Jew would. There are strict rules Orthodox Jews follow concerning food.They can't eat shellfish. And the main one is that they can't mix meat and cheese or any daily product.and when Passover comes to keep Kosher means that you don't eat any leaven bread. But these days there are many Jews who don't follow these rules.I personally don't follow them all the time. You see I loved cheesesteaks way before I became Jewish so I just keep kosher during Passover. ps.Passover is a Springtime holiday where Jews remember the trek our of Egypt Moses lead. That is why we don't eat any leaven bread.It last 8 days and starts in the spring.

Hello! it's nice to see that people who are not jewish are interesting in jewish tradition! so, the Kashrut (Kosher) is simply a bunch of rules in the Jewish tradition thar are relevant to food. A Jewish person can't eat what ever he wants because there are some rules about what you can and cannot eat. For example: it is forbidden to eat a meat food with a milk food. When we eat meat (chicken, cow etc..) slaughter must be Kosher. There are some kinds of animals jewish people can't eat... Most of the jewish people know what they can and cannot eat, but even though the religious people buy only food that some Rabi checked and it says on the package that this food is kosher.

I'm not Jewish but from what I understand it has to do with how food is killed and prepared and what you can and cannot eat. # Judaism 1. Conforming to dietary laws; ritually pure: kosher meat. 2. Selling or serving food prepared in accordance with dietary laws: a kosher restaurant. 3. Legitimate; permissible: "consolidating noneditorial functions of the papers, which is kosher" (Christian Science Monitor). 4. Genuine; authentic.

From what i was told from Jewish friends its food that is blessed by a rabi! :) XX

There are three categories of Kosher food - Meat, Dairy and Parve (or Pareve). 1. Meat - For an animal to be Kosher, it must have split hooves and chew its cud. (Examples: cow, goat, lamb.) Non-Kosher animals include pig, horse, camel and rabbit. Kosher fowl include chicken, turkey, goose, and certain duck. Animals and fowl must be slaughtered by a specialist, called a shochet, and then soaked and salted in accordance with Jewish law. All carnivorous (meat-eating) animals and fowl, and the blood of all animals and fowl, and any derivatives or products thereof, are not Kosher. 2. Dairy - Milk and milk products (cheese, cream, butter, etc.) of a Kosher animal are Kosher-Dairy. These may not be eaten in combination with meat or fowl. 3. Parve - Foods which contain neither meat nor dairy ingredients are called "Parve." All fruits, grains and vegetables in their natural state are Kosher and Parve. Fish which have fins and scales are Kosher and Parve. Some examples are salmon, halibut and carp. Not Kosher fish species include sturgeon, catfish and swordfish. All shellfish, eel, sharks, underwater mammals, and reptiles are not Kosher. A Parve item can become either dairy or meat when it is cooked together with food in either category. (Example: fish fried in butter is considered dairy, not Parve.) Certain grain products and their derivatives, although Kosher the rest of the year, may not be used during Passover. In addition, in many communities legumes are not permitted on Passover. Kosher for Passover items may be made only with utensils that are Kosher for Passover according to Jewish law. The separation of meat and dairy products also applies to the utensils used for storing, preparing and serving these foods. Therefore, completely separate sets of pots, dishes, cutlery, etc. must be used for meat and dairy foods. Kosher food prepared in pots used previously for preparing non-Kosher food may become not Kosher http://www.mazornet.com/jewishcl/Kosher/whatiskosher.htm I didn't know either, so thanks for asking, now i've learned osmething interesting today!

Kosher is a way to prepare food, to eat, to even keep house so that it stays pure. In the Bible, the persecuters of Jesus wouldn't enter the Roman govenor's house because to do so would make them impure. A kosher home will have different dishes for meals with non-Jews (my own experence from living next to a Jewish household growing up.) They will not prepare meals with the milk of the mother with the meat of the child (beef and cheese) tho I guess if you were eating goat's cheese with beef it might be all right. Their meat has to be slaughtered a certain way because they have to be bleed properly - they may eat no blood or blood products - going back to a time when blood was the sacrifice that belonged to God. I have discovered that there are foods they make during Passover that I can eat because they don't use corn starch during that time, because corn starch can rise, so they use tapioca or potato starch that are kosher doing the Passover.

I also heard somewhere that in addition to how it's stored and prepared, there are also certain parts of the animals they don't use, i.e. the reason why there are KOSHER hot dogs!! YUCK to lips and tongues and other random icky parts!! It's also got something to do with how the animals are treated prior to "slaughter". They must be treated humanely, and not in the usual factory farming, disgusting, abusive, and cruel ways. I'm a vegetarian, so I know I'm not that much help, but I at least know a couple things! LOL...at least I think...