Are Orthodox Jewish babies allowed to drink their mother’s milk? It comes from a non-kosher source after all (human).
Yes.
Yup, until they’re 13 anyways.
The Jewish dietary laws are extremely old. Do you think they had baby bottles and Similac way back then? How else would they feed their babies?
*Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
“Yes, go” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.* Exodus 2:7-9 New International Version (Zondervan, ed., 1984)
So it looks like you’re good to go, if you want to look to Moses as an example.
I am not Jewish and I am not an expert on their dietary laws, but even the Hasidem I worked with drank milk. It’s not like they can’t have any dairy.
I believe it is mixing dairy and meat that is not allowed. So, unless your feeding the kid some ground beef along with mother’s milk, I think it’s safe.
How it was explained to me was this, No cow’s milk with beef
reason being this, bear with me here. A cow needs to give birth to give milk, a bull is born and drinks his mothers milk, you have a bull in your herd so you steer him and raise him for beef. Good Angus beef is served and the milk could have come from the mother cow. So as long as the kid is not nibbling on Mom.
Yes, infants can drink mother’s milk. There is no halachic problem at all with it.
Zev Steinhardt
Being that the question is facetious, I’m going to tell a joke.
Two Jewish partisans decide that they are going to assassinate Hitler by blowing up a bridge that his motorcade will be traveling over. They carefully set the charges and wait until the appointed hour, 9am. 9am arrives and they are incredibly excited and pumped up, but there’s no sign of the motorcade. 9:30. Nothing. 9:45. No Hitler. Finally at 10 one turns to the other and says, “Gee, I hope nothing happened to him.”
Okay, now I’ve got this mental image of a little Orthodox baby, wearing a black hat and side-locks, suckling.
Since the source of the commandment is a line of text about not “boil[ing] a kid in the milk of its mother,” it would NOT be permissible to eat the baby. Nor to cook the baby using a sauce prepared from the mother’s milk.
Asked and answered, so I’m closing this thread.
Mother’s milk? Sheesh! Sometimes I think someone should open an “Ask the observant guy” thread in GD or something.