Is it just me that doesn’t like sandwiches with enough filling for five, then?
That’s right. Meat cannot be eaten with dairy, but fish are “pareve” – they are considered neither meat nor dairy, so they can be consumed with either one.
As for why foul is considered dairy, as Israel_B indicates it all comes down to the difference between Torah law (de-'oraita) and Rabbinical law (de-rabbanan).
Basically, the Torah gives you the real, word-of-God law. Then the Rabbis give you boundaries around the laws, making it so that you could never accidentally break the word-of-God law. So, for example, the Torah law is that you’re not allowed to eat grains during passover. The Rabbinical law expands that ban to include rice, lentils, mustard, sesame, poppy, etc., because you might get a grain of flour in your bag of sesame, or the lentils might have been grown too close to the flour.
Likewise with chicken meat – you think you’re eating chicken, but you might be eating lamb, so make it the law to treat chicken like lamb and no one will go to hell.
In all of this, though, there’s no real point in asking “why” like it’s a logical system. The whole point is that it’s us vs. them. We are the chosen ones, so we eat differently and cut off our foreskin so that we know we’re different from them.
Is this a regular preschool that is just extremely sensitive to its Jewish kids, or is it a Jewish preschool? If the former, wtf? That’s a pretty serious imposition on everyone else. Do they ask parents to respect every other religion in the world as well?
Most welcome! There is so much misinformation and half truth out there that I’m glad to be of service in threads like these.
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The good preschools in our area are generally religious. My wife, though certainly not practicing, was raised in a Jewish household, so the choice of a Jewish preschool vs. a Catholic one was pretty clear.
Yeah, and that’s where I run into issues. Being raised Buddhist (which is often illogical enough, but at least theoretically encourages self analysis and rejection of rules that no longer apply historically), it’s hard for me to understand the reasoning behind a lot of this sort of thing. For example, I’d automatically think that rabbinical law would not be necessary. Logically any omniscient super-dude would know if you accidentally ate a grain amongst your lentils, and wouldn’t condemn you for that…
Sounds about right to us, but the idea that a God is a loving guy who really cares more about your good intentions than your deeds is actually pretty modern…
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Au contraire! I have it on good authority that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So wait, GOD IS EVOLVING!?!
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i live in walking distance of that particular kosher-style deli and yet haven’t had one in years… (sigh)
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