01-31-2008, 12:37 AM
Shlama to you Sister Christina--great question!
My opinion is the ban on milk with meat is NOT Scriptural. the command has to do with, as you point out, seething a calf-goat in its mother's milk, something that is almsot impossible to do with getting goats' milk and meat at any supermarket. Even if that was possible, it has nothing to do with beef, chicken, etc.
It is what we call in Aramaic a SYAG (fence) of the Rabbis. The problem with many fences is that they end up breaking another command to avoid keeping one. The first example of a SYAG in Scripture is Eve with the apple. She was only told not to EAT it, but she told the serpent that YHWH said not to TOUCH IT. This was a well meaning fence, because logically if you don't touch the forbidden fruit you can't eat it. The problem was, Eve FORGOT. When she touched the fruit and did not die, she assumed eating it was no problem either. As a result, like Y'shua said in Matthew 15, her tradition ended up nullfying the original command.
Another good example of a SYAG is ban on the name of YHWH. The commadnment is only not to CURSE in that name. The reasoning then becomes if we don't SPEAK it we can't CURSE. But, the problem is YHWH elsewhere commanded that we shout and call on His Name. He also said that to subsitute His Name was to make is SHAV (desolate). So by making a fence for the commandment on cursing in the Name, they violate the other command on calling on the Name.
Rabbinic tradition has tons of these, again as Y'shua pointed out. They have NOTHING to do with the WRITTEN Torah of Moses. It;s like with the tzit-tzit (fringes). Rabbinics know the Scripture says the tekhlet is blue, but because they are not sure which shade of blue, they have them WHITE, which they KNOW is not correct!
Hope this helps!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
My opinion is the ban on milk with meat is NOT Scriptural. the command has to do with, as you point out, seething a calf-goat in its mother's milk, something that is almsot impossible to do with getting goats' milk and meat at any supermarket. Even if that was possible, it has nothing to do with beef, chicken, etc.
It is what we call in Aramaic a SYAG (fence) of the Rabbis. The problem with many fences is that they end up breaking another command to avoid keeping one. The first example of a SYAG in Scripture is Eve with the apple. She was only told not to EAT it, but she told the serpent that YHWH said not to TOUCH IT. This was a well meaning fence, because logically if you don't touch the forbidden fruit you can't eat it. The problem was, Eve FORGOT. When she touched the fruit and did not die, she assumed eating it was no problem either. As a result, like Y'shua said in Matthew 15, her tradition ended up nullfying the original command.
Another good example of a SYAG is ban on the name of YHWH. The commadnment is only not to CURSE in that name. The reasoning then becomes if we don't SPEAK it we can't CURSE. But, the problem is YHWH elsewhere commanded that we shout and call on His Name. He also said that to subsitute His Name was to make is SHAV (desolate). So by making a fence for the commandment on cursing in the Name, they violate the other command on calling on the Name.
Rabbinic tradition has tons of these, again as Y'shua pointed out. They have NOTHING to do with the WRITTEN Torah of Moses. It;s like with the tzit-tzit (fringes). Rabbinics know the Scripture says the tekhlet is blue, but because they are not sure which shade of blue, they have them WHITE, which they KNOW is not correct!
Hope this helps!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth