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In the Torah, there is a commandment forbidding the Israelites from cooking a young goat in its mother’s milk. For some totally unexplained reason, the rabbis have decided to expand this law to include every meat from every animal and every conceivable type of dairy product. That millions of dollars have been, and continue to be, wasted each year enforcing this absolutely ridiculous interpretation of the law has no real relevance to this article. "} 61:{"position":5,"content":"

Our purpose here is simply to analyze the law and to attempt to discover the real motive behind this commandment."} 62:{"position":6,"content":"

Basically, there are four elements to the commandment:"} 63:{"position":7,"content":"

1) Milk"} 64:{"position":8,"content":"

2) Cooking"} 65:{"position":9,"content":"

Metaphors in the Torah: Cooking a Young Goat in its Mother’s Milk