Keeping it Kosher! - Rabbi Shimon Isaacson

shalom alaikum everyone this week is parashat shemini and in this week's posture we have all of the dining of the kashus of animals the various animals we can eat that we're not allowed to eat the ballet mustard point out that there are a lot of symbols when it comes to these simoni kashus for example of course when it comes to the birds the birds that we're not allowed to eat are typically predator birds they have an aggressive nature to them the birds that were allowed to eat the foul are more are more docile type of type of animals when it comes to animals themselves mammals themselves so an animal has to be ma fris parsa and has to be malaguera it has to have split hoofs and it has to chew its cut chew its cut the fancy english word for that has to ruminate the word ruminate is to think to contemplate an animal that chews its cud it's when i think about being reflective i have to chew on something i have to think about i have to chew it over a reflective kind of process it doesn't just eat it eats with a process with a slow graduated process martha's parasite perhaps indicates split hooves it can go in two directions it has options it can go right it can go left while symbolic of simone conscious of a human being when it comes to fish so a fish in order to be cold she needs to have snappier ve casque it has to have scales scales look like armor a coat of armor that protects the fish from the elements that might cause it cause its demise to protect it from the outside element just like a human needs scales needs a coat of armor to protect from the eight sahara that might be around him and fins if the scales are not enough you have to run away you have to be able to flee those situations that are challenging there's a beautiful comment that the tour makes there are secondary secondary c money cautious when it comes to fish one of those secondary semana that is not accepted by all three shown but some really shown the same if an animal you can't tell if it has fins or scales but the fish has a backbone has spot a spine so then yes that too can be used as a secondary symmetras according to some richonne what's the significance of the spine the spine the backbone allows the fish to swim upstream certain fish jellyfish starfish they don't have a backbone they just flow wherever the ocean takes them if the ocean is flowing eastward that's where they go when it comes to a fish that has a backbone the spine it can swim upstream no matter what direction the river is flowing it can swim against the tide perhaps that too is a cement costus of a human being the ability to swim against the tide to go upstream when the world is in one direction when the flow is in a certain way the ability to go against the tide these simone castras are certainly halaq matters but the bali muslims point out they have hashgraphic implications as well they teach us how to combat sahara how to combat sometimes the challenges of the world around us in order to elevate us and make us more complete more whole yidden a wonderful shovelscript [Music]