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> Talmundic law has managed to continue updating itself based on extrapolations of the underlying logic behind restrictions in the source text. Here is an examp
by flukus 8y ago
> Talmundic law has managed to continue updating itself based on extrapolations of the underlying logic behind restrictions in the source text. Here is an example: http://www.kashrut.com/articles/buffalo/ http://www.kashrut.com/articles/buffalo/
Isn't the ban on pig products thought to have been based on it being a disease vector? Considering that this is no longer relevant with modern sanitation and medicine it would seem they're using it as a checklist rather than applying any sort of logic.
- naravara 8y agoThe disease vector is more modern speculation/post-hoc rationalization for the rules. It's not really anywhere in the text itself aside from references to the animals being 'unclean.' It's likely that a variety of factors went into the rules, not least of which were probably just wanting to maintain some social and cultural separation from the communities around them.