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Kosher: Diet Plan of the Soul
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Kosher is the diet plan for the soul, in that they are the foods prescribed by G‑d in the Torah for consumption by the Jewish people.
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Health would not explain why an animal must be ritually slaughtered, why fish with fins and scales would be specified, or why milk from a non-kosher animal would be unfit for consumption.
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For every mitzvah, there is a benefit and a reason. In some instances, the reason and the benefit seem readily discernible, while others are beyond mortal understanding.
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The sages explain that there are several beneficial outcomes that happen to a person by virtue of keeping kosher.
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Ideally, the body is meant merely as a conduit for the spiritual, the means of expressing the selflessness and purity of the soul.
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The Jewish soul is sensitive to the harmful spiritual effects of forbidden animals.
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