Portion Shmini
"Speak to the children of Israel and say that the animal you can eat ... Each animal is a hoof deployment and driven slit and ruminant, But do not eat ruminant animals ... from the underwater animals you can eat animal has a fin and scales…" (11; 1-10)
Torah guides us on how to identify kosher food animals and fish. About the animals rule is: any animal that has all three signs, is kosher. Signs are:
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Hoof deployment - Cracked hoof of the animal.
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Driven slit - Hoof should be cut completely open, even in the back, not only cracked.
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Ruminant - Animal has two stomachs and the food enters the stomach once and then the food comes out, the animal chew food again.
Later verses we read about some animals that have only one sign of purity, and the Torah counting them and forbids us to eat them. Maimonides gives us a rule that all ruminant animals are also hoof deployment, Apart from the four animals that the Torah was appointed them, and they are: camel, pig, rabbit and bunny.
How Moses and Maimonides knew this rule that is scientifically tested all the animals and beasts in the jungles in the world? They only lived for many years before discovering the Americas and Australia and showed new animals were not known until then, Since even the newly discovered animal is not contrary to this rule, How?
In addition, our sages tell us about fish, any fish that has scales has also fin. They also add and tell us something very interesting: not kosher animal's milk cannot become cheese. Cheese can be made only from milk of kosher animal. If you combine the milk of a kosher animal with the milk of not kosher animal to make cheese – the milk of the kosher animal become cheese, and the not kosher animal's milk will come out from the cheese.
These things sharpen the question asked, how the sages determined that the rule, whether they checked it Science?
The answer to these questions we have answered the sages: G-d looked at in Torah and created the world. The Torah is a recipe of the Creation. Even in our generation is very well-developed science, science has not found an axiom contradict the Torah and the sages.
