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The Challenge of Keeping Kosher

By RABBI JACK
GOLDMAN

Administrator, Metropolitan
Kashruth Council of Michigan

Very often, people ask
me, "There are so many
mitzvos in the Torah! Why
do you keep stressing the
importance of kashrut?"
We can judge only by
what the Almighty has re-
vealed to us in the Scrip-
tures. The Torah tells us
that God created the world

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in six days and that the
crowning achievement of
the Creation, perhaps the
chief motivation in the Di-
vine plan, was bringing into
existence the first man,
Adam, the Father of Man-
kind.
As soon as the Creator
breathes into man the
breath of life, and he is
capable of intelligence, God
gives him the first com-
mandment. Astonishingly,
it is a dietary law: not to eat
the fruit of a certain tree
that grew in the Garden of
Eden!
God waits for man to be-
come morally responsible,
capable of heeding a Divine
commandment. He waits 10
generations, but man be-
comes progressively worse,
sinning and perverting the
natural world, until the
Creator becomes so dis-
gusted with mankind that
He decides to obliterate the
Creation with one . fell
swoop, in a Great Flood,
saving only one righteous
man and his family, Noah
and his three sons and their
wives.
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Flood subside and Noah and
his kin emerge from the
Ark, God blesses them, and
He gives them seven com-
mandments. Again, the
first of these is a Dietary
Law!
When, finally, 16 genera-
tions later, the Lord reveals
the whole Torah to Moses at
Sinai, a considerable por-
tion of the Law is, again,
concerned with what is
permissible food and what is
forbidden!
Apparently, God is con-
cerned, very deeply and
consistently, with our in-
take of food. And the reason
for this is simple. When God
commanded Adam to resist
the fruit of the forbidden
tree, He was saying, "Show
me that you're not an ani-
mal! Show Me that you be-
lieve in Me! Show Me that
for My sake, you will for-
bear. Show Me that your
faith in Me is strong enough
that it will enable you to re-
sist temptation to this small
measure!"
Adam failed. The Sons of
Noah also failed. Instead of
believing in God, they built
the Tower of Babel to do
battle with the Almighty, in
case He should decide to
punish the world again, for
their iniquities. In the com-
plete effulgence of God's re-
velation at Sinai, in
Leviticus and again in
Deuteronomy, God points
an emphatic finger at the
Dietary Laws, and these
have embraced one of the
most distinguishing marks
of Jewish living.
In his unconditional
commitment to Torah, the
Jew expresses his faith, not
by words, but by actions, for
Judaism is a religion of
deed, rather than creed. We
don't vocalize confessions of
faith; we rather act out our
beliefs.
If belief in God were
demonstrated by an act
committed once in life, like
circumcision, or the Bar
Mitzva ceremony, or once in
a year, like fasting on Yom
Kippur, or listening to the
blast of the ram's horn on
Rosh Hashana, how sig-
nificant would that be?
On the other hand, if a
Jew demonstrated his devo-
tion to the Almighty by up-
holding the morals and
ethics of our faith, how
would he be different from
any humanitarian gentile?
These are, indeed, acts of
faith, but they do not raise
the challenge of Jewish
commitment every single
day, several times a day,
around the clock! Only the
Dietary Laws do that!
God says, "This is how I
will know that you recog-
nize Me. This is My Torah;

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here are My Laws. Some
apply a single time in a
human life; some apply once
a year; some apply every
day. But these, the Dietary
Laws, apply every time you
hunger. Every time you
open your mouth for food or
drink, think of Me! Thus
shall I know that you are
My people, and I am your
God!"
The Sabbath comes once a
week; the Mikve is used
once a month; but the chal-
lenge of "Kosher or not
Kosher" never leaves us,
even for a moment!

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