As with most dogma, the spirit of the law is lost in the implementation.
I actually worked on a Kibbutz in my gap year and had a fascinating conversation with one of the younger kibbutzniks.
It was an orthodox kibbutz, so meals were properly kosher - they had plates with a red ring around them for meat and a blue ring for dairy. If something meaty touched a blue plate or vice-versa, they'd have to smash the plate.
She explained that the original reason behind not mixing meat and dairy was that you shouldn't eat the meat of the calf whilst drinking the milk of the mother - i.e. don't exploit nature or your natural resources - quite a nice thing to live by...
But by implementing the rules so unthinkingly, they are literally doing the opposite of what was intended by smashing plates because a drop of milk touched a meat plate.
Idiots...
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HoratioFellatio Taking the the out of psychotherapist, Thu 2 Jun 2016, 7:56,
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