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From: hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: meat and fish together
Message-ID: <219@nbs-amrf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 16:00:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 16 16:00:19 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Mar-84 07:25:54 EST
Organization: National Bureau of Standards
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I haven't been able to find a reference to the prohibition of eating
meat and fish together, but there is a related ordinance.  Meat and
fish may not be kashered together.  The reason is simple: fish releases
and absorbs blood much faster than meat, so if they were salted 
together, the fish would absorb the blood of the meat, rendering it
trefah.  I suspect that the prohibition of eating meat and fish together 
is either an extension or distortion of this law.
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