I know there’s the prohibition against ‘boiling a kid in it’s mothers milk’ which leads to the prohibition against combining milk and meat in the same meal.
Would, say, an omelette with chicken in it be non-kosher by those rules?
Eggs aren’t considered meat.
“If, however, the eggs were laid and are thus completely developed; they are not considered part of the chicken meat. Rather a complete egg is in fact considered an entity by itself and is not considered meat that can be confused with animal meat. Hence there the rabbinic prohibition would not apply here and it would be permissible to eat the egg with dairy products.”
Yes, it is kosher. Eggs are not a dairy product.
Cmkeller, I thought you had made a statement that fowl is not red meat and may be eaten with dairy.
I think that’s one of those cases where the rabbis “build a fence around the Torah”. As in, strictly speaking poultry with dairy would be acceptable, but a person accustomed to eating poultry with dairy might be more likely to mistakenly eat red meat with dairy, so the Rabbinical rule is more strict than necessary to make more certain that the scriptural rule is followed.
I believe there might be a question underlying the one actually expressed in words by the OP - and It seems to be:
Is the prohibition of '‘boiling a kid in it’s mothers milk’ founded on some moral principle that might also prohibit cooking chicken and eggs together, etc?
Apologies, OP, if I’m putting inappropriate words in your mouth, but this was how I read your question…
You are indeed correct; that’s basically what I was trying to ask.
The Reform Rabbi told me that blood represents death and milk life, and it is wrong to mix the two.
He also told me there were some evil (for other reasons) guys with a favorite delicacy of seething a kid in mama’s milk, and this was an effort to keep us from hanging out with them and I wish I had listened better.
A Conservative Rabbi told Mrs. Plant, “No chicken ever nursed her chicks”.
What a lot of mileage the rabbis get of a prohibition against cooking a kid in its mother’s milk!
carnivorousplant, Chronos’s answer is correct. By strict Biblical law, fowl and milk would be permitted, but the rabbis prohibited it so people wouldn’t mistakenly make the leap to mammal meat, since the two kinds of meat can be similar. (Fish, on the other hand, is different enough that the rabbis felt no need to prohibit a milk mixture.)
And eggs are not akin to milk in nature, at least not as far as Jewish law is concerned.
I believe I’ve posted this before, but thank goodness for turkey bacon.
Wow, the OP and Mangetout are just whooshing everybody…
Hari, yup, seems like it