Are mushrooms kosher?
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Yes, mushrooms are kosher. A mushroom is a fungus, and in general, natural fungi are kosher. Since bugs are not kosher, you should make sure that your mushrooms aren't infested with insects before eating them. Rinse the mushrooms and check a few samples to make sure that no creature calls these mushrooms "home." For this reason, the brown area under the top of portabella mushrooms should be removed.
If the mushrooms are canned, you should look for a symbol of kosher certification on the label, since non-kosher ingredients may have been used during the process, or the mushrooms may have been on the same production lines as non-kosher foods. The kosher certification agency also ensures that the mushrooms are not infested with insects.
Since you asked about mushrooms, I should mention that the sages of the Talmud (Brachot 40b) discuss the blessing to be recited before eating mushrooms. Mushrooms, though they grow on the ground, do not receive their nutrition from the soil as plants do. Therefore, the proper blessing for mushrooms is not ha'adamah ("Blessed are You... who creates the fruit of the earth"), the blessing said on vegetables, but rather the default blessing, "by whose word all things came to be."
You can find more information on Kosher and on the blessings recited on various foods in our Kosher Section.
Enjoy your mushrooms!
All the best,
Rochel Chein for Chabad.org
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You don't have to be jewish to keep torah.
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Zach I think I like your comments, and it appears that Brian/Meira do not wish to provide Biblical support for the contention that you must be "religiously" circumcized to join Israel. I wonder how orthodox Jews deal with Ruth, who was a Moabitess and would be thus twice forbidden according to "religious" understanding from becoming part of Israel. The answer is that she completely rejected her paganism, the same process by which it was possible for a wife to be taken from pagans in Deut 21 -- if it's not a "convenant" with pagans (what got Solomon/David in wife trouble) then it clearly is a matter of her total acceptance of the God of Israel and his Torah. Ditto for Egyptians that came out with Israel during the Exodus. Meira and Brian you might consider forgetting about absolute (or religious) truth and focus instead on whether there is a cohesive Tanakh context that helps you reason from the words your Creator gave you, including what is kosher because it clearly matters to God.
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Kosher/ not Kosher should not really seem too confusing, for the most part it's pretty well laid out in Scripture.
As to your other comment- It depends on how you want to define a Christian. If a core Christian principle is "do not murder", then is a murderer, especially of Jews, really a Christian? Probably not.
Also, Enoch actually "got out of life alive," as I understand it, possibly others as well, as will those alive at the time of Meshiac's return, They/we may not die.
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This hasn't anything to do with whether mushrooms are kosher -- but Christians murdered millions of Jews because Jews refused to convert!!
Now I'm learning from today's Christians that those were "not Christians" -- so history is confusing. Almost as much as kosher/not kosher, if you're looking for absolute truth.
100% Absolute truth is on one thing only in Life: "No one gets out of this Life alive."
Orthodox Jew or Atheist or whatever other people call themselves.
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Brian, can you offer any Biblical support for your second paragraph?
I have actually eaten the Passover meal with a Torah follower, who became religiously circumcized, but did not convert to Judaism. Is it not enough that He studies and obeys the Torah? He must also be exclusive to the tribe of Judah? I'[m confused, where in the Bible does YHVH say "You must identify with Judah"?
Again people, the Torah is for ALL ISRAEL, NOT JUST THE TRIBE JUDAH AND some OF BENJAMIN AND LEVITE ("Jews"). The sooner that is admitted, the sooner we can stop these nonsensical traditions of men that say you can only obey YHVH if you identify yourself with a certain one of the twelve tribes, namely Judah,
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Brian, what did you mean, we are not to be Judaizers?
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Meira, I did not mean the word "peculiar" in the sense you took it. I apologize for the misunderstanding. Maybe the word "particular" to Israel would have been better. Of course Israel deserves a homeland. Israel should not only keep all their land but should expand it to include the entire area promised to Abraham.
Mark, for a Gentile to become religiously circumcized (not just a medical circumcision) requires a full conversion to Judaism. If no rabbi accepts a Gentiles conversion and no rabbi agrees to circumcise him, then he is forbidden to eat the Passover meal.
I agree Mark, that a student like myself should constantly study to double-check my teachers. There is no argument here. Many Noahides after keeping the seven laws for a while, continue on to keep all the 613 laws and become Jews in every sense of the word. However, it should be made clear to them before becoming circumcised that they are not required to become Jewish. We are not to be Judaizers
G-d bless
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Brian, a gentile who desires to keep Pesakh can be circumcised, thus invalidating that portion of your argument. Everything else you assert is taken from man’s authority, not the Torah. Even “converting to Judaism” is not a command from the Torah, if I am wrong please show me where. We are only to walk is his way, or ha derekh, which if we do, we have life (Deut 5:33). It is very difficult for any of us to go against what we have been taught, but it makes sense to keep examining the Torah carefully – as the first authority -- to see if what we have been taught lines up.
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Brian wrote: But Judaism is not a universal faith but rather a national one peculiar to Israel.
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What you wrote is not sitting right for me.
G-d chose ALL, all chose not to listen.
Those who listened became known as Jews.
There are approximately 6,535,000,000 people now on the planet Earth of which approximately 13,000,000 are Jews.
I delete the zeros because few people comprehend such numbers.
6,522 non-Jews
13 Jews
I am grateful to those before me and now who keep Judaism going in the face of annihilation for thousands of years.
If 6,522 people have the entire planet, is it still not ok for 13 Jews to have Israel -- in Peace?
I don't find it "peculiar" ... please enjoy learning about Judaism - I wish more non-Jews would since it's the religion they continue to follow up to a point -- but please don't convert if you consider Judaism peculiar.
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