Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-29
THE ANCIENT MOSAIC DIET
Flesh Food or the Dietary Laws Derived
From the Talmud.
Clear Skin and Longevity of the Jew
Have Their Origin In His
BlOOdless Food.

That prehistoric nations held sanitary
laws Is well established. and that Mosaism
has especially legislated thereon is to ac-
cept the Old Testament evidence. 1t was
undoubtedly a great mistake when Saul of
Tarsus set aside the dietary laws of Mo-
saism. The ancient. no less than the mod
ern, physicists recognize that the princi-
pal element in all animal life Is the blood,
which promotes animation, activity and
virility. Any undue change of the blood
from a normal condition is certain to dis
tprb the physical body. attacking the most
vulnerable part of the system and mani
Testing itself in hundreds of specific dis
eases. II Moses, the reputed lawgiver,
deemed it prudent to rear his people as an
enduring nation his philosophy was GER
tainly highly scientific, as well as credita-
Bile, for the people who have adhered to
these regulations are less subject to cuta-
neous diseases than are those who ignore
the Mosaic sanitary laws. If the vital
statistics of the civilized nations are con-
suited it will at once be recognized that
their longevity is marked even to the pres
ent dav.
1t can by no means be said that Moses
was the originator of these dietary laws,
for the Egyptians. Persans and Indians,
much older nations than the Jews, OBJ
served similar regulations Their philoso-
ply maintained that the animal kingdom
consisted OF a good God and bad demon,
and all heather nations believed this.
One may read in the third book of Moses
N, A.: DO not conta inmate your souls with
abominable creeping things on the earth;
DO not soil yourself with them, for l. the
Lord. am holy" The record implies more
explicitly domestic animals and animals of
the chase, which were denoted as unclean.
and the Pentateuch sets up all creeping in
sects and animals which are named She
retz haaretz. which are wholly interdicted;
all winged species of insects with the ex-
cd oh I,o
our. and all fishes except such as are sup
piled with scales and fins
Blood Inedible.
Only such animals were permissible for
consumption whose habits of cleanliness
were KNOWN The blood and fats were for
p'oden. as these were to be burnt as offer
1riss The authors of that statute even
then believed that the blood of all animals
was an element which conveyed impurities
te the human system 1t was certainly
deemed abominable and unholy." Even
sucn nterdictions were commanded against
the use of plants and fruits. unless they
he'd the stamp of deistic approval The use
OF animal food. according to the biblical
record. was Permitted only after the blood
vas eliminated. Particular emphasis was
laid to abstain from use of blood or the
eating OF the meat of animals while life
was still in them. All abominable crea-
lures were named sheketz, notably carbon
The further Mosaic law forbade that
calf should be slaughtered before 1t was
eight days old; that 1T should not be butch
cred on the same day with Its mother Or
1ather. and, in general sense, that it be
not cooked in its mothers milk. The Tai
Hudists and sages classify the forbidden
animal species as follows: All quadrupeds
either domestic or of the chase which do
not Doth chew their cud and have split
hoofs-such the camel, the badger the
hare, the rabbit and the swine. OF those
that were permitted were the deer tho roe
female. the gazelle. the floating roe, both
goat. the antelope. the unicorn deer and the
bison or buffalo.
Birds and Fishes.
OF the feathered tribe were forbidden the
eagle. the sheep vulture, the hawk, the
turkey buzzard the heron the hawk owl
and all species of the owls, the pelican,
the night OWL the prairie hen, the carrion
vulture. the stork. hoopoe and bat species.
The Talmudists. however. enumerate some
twenty-four additional birds.
OF fish species special inventory is
given allowing only those which show their
clean and proper marks of constitution,
and notably that they are provided with
fins and scales. OF the creeping insects
and animals eight species are enumerated,
and all of them are strictly prohibited from
use They are the weasel in all its species,
the mouse, the land crocodile. the lizard.
the skunk. the turtle. the snail and cha
meleon-
cUstomed to observe the Talmudic sanitary
rules that nothing could swerve them
therefrom up to the present century. In
the Talmudic the sages had SO ex-
tonsively augmented and amplifed those
laws that ii was finally declared by the
more modern thinkers that the Jewish re-
ligion was of a pot and kettle Journalism
The Talmudsts were constantly circum-
inO he INIT tive dintor lou hat
no meat could be cooked in vessels that
were used for preparing Tactic food.
The TamudistS and seers in their era
Were entitled 20 credit for their humane
method, as applied to the slaughtering of
animals for food. Their studies on the
subject are likewise model of physical
knowledge. The method of the Egyptians,
Persians and Babylonians using a sledge
hammer to crush the brain into insensi-
bility was abhorrent to them. The Jews
tripped the animal in such manner that
the throat and head were exposed, allow
ing a keen-edged knife to be drawn across
the thorax In a rapid movement. severiHR
the main arteries so that the animal bled
TO DEATH
Manner of Staying.
II has time and again been shown by
eminent physicists. veterinary experts and
masters of abattoirs that this procedure is
far less painful than Is the stunning blow.
even if administered through the slaugn-
tering mask, now in vogue. Aside from
the latter's use. the sages argued that II
any deleterious elements were in the blood
of the animal these would be returned TO
the body of the animal. and thereby con-
taminate the meat. while by the $50 to
speak) painless and natural outflow of the
blood through the main arteries. all the
impurities would be eliminated from the
carcass
The PrUSsian government has recently is
sued an order that the commissary of the
army shall use no other meat as food for
the army and navy except such as IS
slaughtered by the Jewish method. The
tests made by the chemical and medical
departments showed that such meats were
far more wholesome and susceptible of
preservation. Notwithstanding this, the
anti-Semitic factions in Saxony and Swift
zerfand enacted laws prohibiting the Jew
ish method Of slaughtering. But $50 sci
entific non-Jewish authorities in physics
and physiology In leading European uni
versities have declared that the Jewish
method Is by far the most humane and
best adopted means for obtaining animal
flesh for food Many intelligent Christians
In European capitals Use no meats unless
the animal be slaughtered by Jewish meth
DDS.
Precautions Taken.
The later Jewish authors on hygiene have