The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-19
Flesh Food and the TaImud.

thereon is to accept the
old testament as evidence. 1t was
Undoubtedly great mistake when
Saul of Tarsus set aside Il dietary
laws of Mosaism. The ancient, no
less than the modern, physicists re-
cognize that the principal 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 disturb the physical body
attaching the most vulnerable part
of the system and manifesting itself
lin hundreds of specific diseases.
If Moses, the reputed law giver,
deemed it prudent to rear his people
as an en- Turing nation, his philosophy
was certainly highly scientific as
we'll as, creditable, for the people
who have adhered to these regula-
tions are less subject to cutaneous
diseases than are those who ignore
the Mosaic sanitary laws. If the
vital statistics of the civilized nations
are consulted it will at once be re-
Icognized that their longevity is
, marked even to this day.
, 1t can by no means be said that
: Moses was the originator of these
6 dietary laws. for the Egyptians t,
Persiano and Indians, much older
nations than the Jews, observed
: similar regulations. Their philoso-
phv maintained that the animal
! kingdom consisted of good god
: and bad demon, and all heather
. nations believed this.
" One NAV read in the third book
, of Moses, XII, AZ: "Do not con-
. taminate your souls with abomln-
h able creeping things on the earth
/, do not soil yourselves with them
! for |, the Lord, am holy" The re-
- - cord implies more explicitly domes
tic animals and animals of the chase
which were denoted as unchan, an,
;, the Pentateuch sets up all creeping
y \ insects, and animals which are
!. nance sheretz haaretz, which are
!; = wholly interdicted; all winged
" species of insects, with the exception
OF the locust termed sheretz haoui
and all fishes except such as wer'
OF supplied with scales and fins.
i Only such animals were permls
,e sibIe for consumption whose habit
T. of cleanliness were known. Th
\ blood and fats were forbidden, a
e. these were to be burnt as offerings
III The authors Of that statute even thel
in believed that the blood OF all thu
in animals was an element which con
Mt veyed impurities, to the humal
i system. 1t was certainly deemed
/ "abominable and unholy." Ever
10 such interdictions were commande'
! ; against the use of plants and fruits
so unless they had the stamp OF
10 deistic approval. The use OF anima
Is food, according to the biblical record
e. was permitted only after the Hood
re Particular emphasis was laid to ab
| /. stain from use Of the blood or tn
.. eating of the meat of animals Will
10 life was still in them. All abomin
% able creatures were named sheketz
at notably carrion and the animal
IN killed or torn on the fields. Tn
4 further Mosaic law forbade that |
calf should be slaughtered before
on was eight days old: that it should b
nyibutchered on the same day with it
n mother or father, and in genera
If sense. that it be not cooked in II
Ial mothers milk.
ey The talmudists and sages classif
,r, the forbidden animal species as 10
lr, lows: All quadrupeds, either dc
ey mestic or of the chase, which q
m not both chew their cud and hav
il split hoofs-such a. the camel, tn
ur badger, the hare, the rabbit and tn
he swine. OF those that were permit
de ted were the deer, the roe, female
a the gazeIe, the floating roe, bot
'ys the male and female deer, the mour
or tain goat, the antelope, and unlcor
ID deer and the bison or buffalo.
nd OF the feathered tribe were TO
wo bidden the eagle, the sheep vultur'
Try the hawk, the turkey buzzard, a
en raven species, the ostrich, the swa
Is How, the heron, the hawk owl, an
1v- all species of owls, the pelican, Il
It'll night owl, the prairie hen, the ca
,us rion vulture, the stork. hoopoe, ar
all bat species. The talmudists, hoy
l. /" ever, enumerate some twenty-fo'
Id additional birds.
is OF fish species special invento
be- is given, allowing only those VIII,
it'll show their clean and prorer mar
Of constitution, and notably th
,Ithey are provided with fins al
pe' scales. OF the creeping insects al
;. 70 animals eight species are enume
nc ated, and all OF them are strict