Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-29
LEARNED BUTCHERS 1B[RE.
Regulations That Determine Wheth-
er or Not Meat Is Kosher and May
Be Eaten by the OrthodOx-Ad-
vantages of the Jewish Plan.
The Same System Applied to PouI-
try.

, New York Sun.
In one of the big slaughter houses Of
this city, certain proportion of cattle,
from 1000 to 1900 head, are slaughtered
| each week according to the Shechitah
| or Israelitish law. Here can be seen
the butcher, who is not only strong
man, but also scholar versed in an
Client lore, the Jewish inspector who
| looks like a professor, gravely medita-
tive, and the rabbi skull-capped and
specialized. giving approval to the blades
with which the work is done.
1T pays us to keep always supply
| OF kosher meat said the manager of
| the business. THE demand for the
genuine kosher is steady, and since only
the heaviest, finest steers are used for
it, the Gentle butchers are always
ready to take the wastes and cuts of
our hands. And some of the choicest
/ fifteen-pound roasts sold anywh<sa in
the city are from Shechitah-killed bull
| locks"
you see out of the 1900 cattle
| butchered for kosher only about 20 per
cent. will prove available. Not that
there is anything the matter with the
meat itself, but some of the fine rules
| relating to the ceremony of killing may
not have been complied with. If the
| hand trembled in the hand of the
| shochet butcher, when ne performed the
| Office the seal of kosher meat cannot
| lawfully be affixed to that carcass. If it
| proves after a steer is lawfully killed
| that there is some flaw in its lung It's
/ sue or some slight injury in the lining
of it's stomach-no matter how long
| healed-that steer would be unavail-
able as kosher. 1t would be called
terepha, meaning most excellent, sound
meat, but not fit for an orthodox be-
levers consumption
The forequarters only of the steers
| killed for kosher are used by Hebrews.
The fifth rib is the dividing line be-
tween the sanctioned and the INSANE
toned The porterhouse steak, tender
loin and all the hindquarter parts, so
much priced by the Gentiles, are not
wanted by the Jews.
1--WE get a cent pound more for the
generally considered an
inferior portion-if killed according to
the Shechitah, than we would get if
the animal was slaughtered in the or
binary way; SO it is just as cheap to
us to adopt that method. Come up to
our refrigerator compartments" he
added, "and / will show you the diff
ferent assortments.'
Admitted to the great refrigerator
floor, the visitor is amazed that any
thing SO commonplace as dressed beef
can be made into so pleasing picture.
The compartment is SO cold, being at Sc
degrees, that wraps are needed TO en-
able one to stand the change of tenn
perature But the rows of regularly
strung sides of beef stretching off in
symmetrical evenness down the long
enclosure with barely walking room
between them are sight to see. There
are hundreds of great halves of animals
suspended neck downward, each from
it's own hook, hanging with such Or
derby precision that hardly deviation
of outline shows.
This is kosher" says the manager,
stopping before specimen. "A beauty,
isn't it? The fat clear, white and firm
like marble, and the lean an even,
wholesome pink. See, this is the tag,
indicating label fastened to the FORE
quarter by wire.
This label has set down in Hebrew
the date of the killing and the fact that
the Shechitah in the case of this par
ticular animal was legally followed.
The signature is that of the chief as
sistant of the rabbi, who is authority
for the Jewish law in this respect for
the whole United States. Up to thir-
teen or fourteen years ago there was
no official in charge of the matter. Each
slaughter house that catered at all to
Jewish trade employed its private sho-
Chef or Jewish butcher, but there was
no one in authority over ciI1. no SUI
pervision Of his actions. The custom
ers had no guarantee that the meat
they purchased as kosher was genuine.
THE increase of Hebrew population
in New York prompted the importation
of an official trained in the supervising
of such matters in Russia, and the Gus
toners of kosher meat have since felt
safe in relying on the official seals to
be instituted. There are even now
numerous butcher shops about town,
with mystical letters pct up in their
windows signifying that kosher meat Is
in stock, which are not always to be
trusted. These shops have customers
because the customers are ignorant that
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