Thank you. I listened intently to your whole program. I am 75 years old and avoided unclean animals since 18 years age. I always wondered why HaShem gave us laws to avoid eating unclean animals. Listening to your program I feel the insight I gained here in your program is that the "clean" animals reflect the CHARACTER OF HASHEM. while unclean animals DO NOT show his traits and character. That is my theory. Thank you for attempting this tough but important subject. Erich from New Zealand ☺️
This was great! I loved it! There is another thought that I would love to get commentary on. Dr. David Falk says that pigs were seen as a problem in Egypt because they root in the mud. In a society that depends on the river, that's a problem because it turns the river into a muddy mess instead of the drinkable clear water. So he thinks that it's a holdover from the time of the exile. I don't feel like I know enough about any of it to have any kind of opinion. Does this theory have any problems?
I thought the reason that we don’t eat pork, and the other non-kosher animals is that the Lord wants us to be a nation of priests. And so we would not eat an impure animal that slushes in a mud. And the pig doesn’t have multiple stomachs
Not quite exactly. First, the cow has to be a healthy animal and needs to be prepared in a kosher way. If not done, it would be unfit. And in terms of general health, there are ways to keep it healthy.
Clean and unclean, pure and impure, transparent and opaque, all has to do with our spiritual heart 🫀which is core to our being. The male penis is connected to the heart, in that both can be circumcised. Women have an internal penis, the head of which is covered with a vail of flesh too, and although the LORD does not call for women to be physically circumcised, a women’s heart can be spiritually circumcised. (Deu 10.16) Since women are not called to be circumcised, they become circumcised in submission to, and under the authority of her circumcised male patriarch. So, the male penis represents an image of the man himself. The foreskin represents a vail that hides the man’s eyes from the light of the sun. The light of the sun represents the light of the LORD, as described in Creation day one in Genesis 1. The light, if allowed in, of the sun reviles uncleanness upon the man’s heart. Men become exposed to the light, when they remove the foreskin from their hearts, and they become clean when they confess and repent from whatever unclean behavior they notice in themselves. Now, where do the animals come in? It depends on the animal, but for those animals that eat grass, we might think of that grass as wheat, which can become bread, which can be connected to the word of the LORD. (Deu 8.3) The hooves enable the animal to remain on difficult dangerous narrow paths, in order to reach locations where true (Bible) grass can be found in the wilderness land we find ourselves in now. Chewing the cud represents, deep contemplation, and self reflection of the bread (Torah) we have ingested. Upon seeing within ourselves a flaw in our character based on the teachings of the LORD’s word, we become clean by confessing where we went wrong, and realigning our steps with the narrow path we have wandered off of, bringing us back to the need for split hooves. We are, in a sense, allowing the Torah, to be our shepherd.
