# Kosher only from the waist up?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kosher-only-from-the-waist-up/496909>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 18, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kosher-only-from-the-waist-up/496909 "2009-05-18T22:57:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kosher-only-from-the-waist-up/496909/21 "2009-05-19T03:18:52Z")

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> [@Eureka](#):
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> Reading Genesis 32: 24-32 might help a bit more–but at some level, it is kind of an oblique association.

It’s a rule with no good explanation, which we follow because it’s in the rule book.

The explanation IS there, it just doesn’t make sense.

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**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kosher-only-from-the-waist-up/496909/22 "2009-05-19T05:25:43Z")

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> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> I know that pigs and seafood are out

Not seafood, shellfish. Fish with fins and scales are perfectly acceptable under kosher rules.

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