Exodus 23:19 reads
The choicest first fruit of your land shall you bring to the House of Hashem, your G-d; you shall not boil a kid in the milk of its mother.
The Jewish laws we follow clearly interpret this literally and thus no meat is eaten with milk. This is a literal meaning. That is good.
But I suggest that the reality of this verse is a figurative meaning as well.
To boil a kid in its mother's milk, you are basically cutting off the child from the healing nurturing of its mother. This allows for the kid or the baby of the beast to be cinched off from the spirit and blessings of its mother who is its nurturer and lifeline in its infancy. This will kill the kid.
This is taken literally as now we do not mix milk and meat together.
I feel that this verse is more likely meant to indicate that we must not deal treacherously with life itself.
This is a commandment.
To deal treacherously with life, we are basically saying that we have little regard for the soul of our own bodies and the bodies of any living thing.
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Of note here, I will suggest that this particular commandment is a little different than the Jewish dietary laws as presented in Leviticus 11. This came earlier in Exodus. This does not seem very orderly to include a major provision about diet in a completely different book than the true exact dietary laws of Leviticus. I would suggest more attention is needed to decipher the exact relevance of Exodus 23:19 as I am not completely convinced that it is a dairy separation that God was really trying to get at with us. But of course, who am I to defer and change course from 3000 years of judaism huh?
I tried a little experiment. I had a portion of cheese with meat and I must tell you that I eventually felt weakened and I also felt a little bit corrupted as well.
I had some thoughts that perhaps this commandment was maybe not exactly to tell us to separate meat and milk and of course I now believe that that is definately our way of life.
I will not question this commandment further and I think that Hashem let me sample and find out in a scientific manner how this commandment was truly constructed.
So I did feel sick, but I attest that good has come from my perhaps scientific transgression of a Way of Life that Every Jew has never really questioned unless perhaps they are of the reform diatribe of life.
Since I disobeyed a commandment, I felt need to make restitution.
I gave a small donation to 3 charities (maybe more will follow). This includes the National Bone Marrow Foundation, The National Kidney Fund and then also the American Red Cross. I wanted to get the impurity out of my own bone marrow, blood and system and I think that spiritually this works just great.
So I also read about 5 chapters of Tanakh as well and of course, the word of our Creator is a purifying substance. So today now I feel healthy and ready to continue a kosher lifestyle! Sorry if this has been a troubling blog entry for some of you!
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