סימני כשרות
These are the two סימנים a בהמה must have to be kosher.
What are מפריס פרסה and מעלה גרה?
This animal has split hooves but is explicitly prohibited because it does not chew cud.
What is a pig?
"קדושים תהיו כי קדוש אני."
What is the Torah's call for Jews to be holy?
Rav Hirsch teaches that food affects not only the body but also this aspect of a person.
Question: What is the רוח?
The Torah does not present כשרות primarily as a system of this.
What is health or medicine?
These are the two סימנים a fish must have to be kosher.
What are fins and scales?
This animal chews cud but lacks split hooves.
What is a camel?
"והתקדשתם והייתם ____."
What is קדושים?
Answer: According to Rav Hirsch, the Jewish body should be a כלי for serving whom?
Who is Hashem?
The Torah's primary emphasis is on achieving this spiritual quality.
What is קדושה?
The Torah identifies four mammals that have only one of the required סימנים.
What are the camel, hyrax (שפן), hare (ארנבת), and pig?
Salmon is kosher because it possesses these two features.
What are fins and scales?
This phrase appears repeatedly as a reason for observing the laws of כשרות.
What is כי קדוש אני?
Rav Hirsch emphasizes that Torah law guides the relationship between these three parts of a person.
What are the body, mind, and spirit?
According to Rav Hirsch, Jews do not eat whatever they desire because physical urges must be subordinate to this.
What is Hashem's will?
This mammal is kosher because it both chews its cud and has split hooves.
What is a cow, sheep, or goat?
The Torah prohibits most of these small creatures that move close to the ground.
What are שרצים?
According to ויקרא י״א, observing כשרות helps create this type of nation.
Question: What is a עם קדוש?
Rav Hirsch notes that mankind stands above animals just as animals stand above these forms of life.
What are plants?
The many prohibited animals teach that even eating must be governed by this.
What is Torah law?
If a fish has scales, Chazal teach that it automatically has this second סימן.
What are fins?
Unlike mammals and fish, the Torah does not provide a complete set of סימנים for identifying these kosher species.
What are עופות?
The Torah concludes the chapter of כשרות by reminding Bnei Yisrael that Hashem brought them out of this country.
Question: What is מצרים?
Rav Hirsch argues that science can describe creation, but only this provides its ultimate purpose.
What is Torah / Hashem's will?
The overarching reason the Torah provides for avoiding non-kosher animals.
What is to become holy by living according to Hashem's commandments and separating ourselves from what the Torah forbids?