Cohn, Jacob. The Royal Table - VWC: Faculty/Staff Web

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: THEORETICAL
CHAPTER PAGE
BASES OF THE DIETARY LAWS
Introductory
9
Hygienic Reasons
Ritual Reasons; the Discouragement of
17
Pagan Rites 22
National Reasons 26
Moral Reasons 33
Aesthetic and Mystic Reasons 43
EARTH: PRACTICAL
1. CONCERNING WHAT Is CLEAN S3
2. How ANIMALS ARE SLAUGHTERED 57
3. WHEN Is AN ANIMAL OR FOWL TREFAH? . . 62
4. FAT, SINEW, BLOOD, AND THE SALTING
OF MEAT 73
5. CONCERNING MIXTURES OF MEAT
AND MILK 88
6. CONCERNING THE ANNULMENT
OF PROHIBITIONS 100
7. AGRICULTURAL PROHIBITIONS:
Kilayim, Orlah, Terumah and Ma'aser . . Ill
8. AGRICULTURAL PROHIBITIONS:
The Dough-Portion
9. FOODS COOKED BY GENTILES:
Their Bread, Milk, Beverages
118
and Wines . . 124
10. How DISHES ARE PURIFIED ("kashered")]
THE CEREMONY OF RITUAL IMMERSION
("hagala")
130
11. MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS 138
BIBLIOGRAPHY
140