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From: axm9839@acf4.UUCP (Asher Meth)
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Subject: Re: meat and fish together
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 20:18:21 EST
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DATE : Or leyom shelishi leparshas Shemini, 16 ADAR II 5744

FROM : Asher Meth (allegra!cmcl2!acf4!axm9839)
RE : article from Ted Hopp about prohibition of eating meat & fish together

If Ted wrote his piece as "Purim Torah", then disregard this reply.
However, since we may not all have taken it as such, I wish to / I MUST
answer his article.

His "related ordinance" about not kashering meat & fish together is a statement
that is TOTALLY ABSURD. Fish is NOT kashered !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fish is kosher, by definition, if it has fins and scales.
You then prepare the fish as you wish.

Meat, on the other hand, assuming that the animal is a kosher animal, must
be kashered - soaking, salting, etc.

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As far as blood absorbed in anything, after it has been "removed" from the meat
(through salting), that is another story.

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As far as NOT eating meat & fish together, the reasons (and perhaps sources)
have been mentioned in previous articles - "sakanah" (danger), "mishoom
davar acher", which the meforshim explain as being "tzora'as".

I don't recall the source offhand, but check Yoreh De'ah 87 (that is where
fish & milk can be found). See also the gemoras mentioned in the Meforshim
on the halachos in that siman.

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                                 Asher Meth
                                 (allegra!cmcl2!acf4!axm9839)