Wild garlic = non-kosher. Huh?

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There is. It’s the one for “various things.” But any time bread or matzah is served at a meal, that blessing supersedes all others.

Unless there’s a red dot. Don’t eat it if it has a red dot.

G-d: “Moses, don’t seethe a kid in it’s mother’s milk.”
Moses: “Does that mean we need two sets of plates?”
“Moses. Don’t seethe a kid in it’s Mother’s milk.”
“Do we have to wait a certain amount of time between them?”
“Moses. Don’t seethe a kid in it’s Mother’s milk.”
“What if we mess up and use a plate has had dairy on it for meat?”
“Oye, Mosesm do whatever you want!”

Actually, it was more like “mannah, schmannah, it’s the garlic we want”:

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

Numbers XI:4-6

So we would be eating shmurah garlic. But that’s slave talk. [“Shmurah”==Heb. “watched over”, the kind of super-special matzoh that that particular wheat patch was intended for]

OK, humor aside, the rabbis who discussed and debated the rules way back when discussed two approaches to the law: one was holistic, that the law meant what it said. That was rejected in favor of the interpretation that the law was perfect, and often implied more than simp;ly what was said. The idea was that no word (or even letter) was superfluous. Thus, if a rule (“don’t seethe a kid in its mothers milk”) was repeated three times (as this one was), there must be more to the law than the simple statement. If only the simple meaning was intended, then stating it once woud have been enough.

Similarly, the rule about not eating anything leaven on Passover is repeated, and therefore is taken to imply being really, really strict.

Modern-day Reform Jews discard this as a product of its time; modern-day Orthodox accept it as binding; and modern-day Conservatives … well, are sort of on the fence.

Thanks, Dexter.
I converted Conservative, and did not realize that they were on the fence. The kitchen at the Conservative Synagogue in New Hampshire was run like a bio lab. :slight_smile:

I suspect that in the time when Moses gave the Laws to the Hebrews, and when the rabbis were writing the Talmud and it’s commentaries, the ceramics industry wasn’t what it was now. That is to say, plates and bowls were more likely to be carved from wood or unglazed fired clay. So, they might have been porous. At least, more so than the Cornelle stuff in my cabinets. And they didn’t have GE dishwashers back then either. So it’s likely to me they didn’t have the capability of really scrubbing clean their dishware and there was a possibility of some meat or milk stuff remaining on plates after being washed.

So, to create that desired fence around the Law/Torah to protect it, if you have separate dishware for dairy and meat, there’s no chance of you mixing them by accident.

Matza is not made with salt, at least not the matzah used for Passover. There are other kinds of matzah made during the year (garlic matzah, everything matzah, etc.), but these kinds are not kosher for Passover.

Yes, it’s a big bubble:

http://www.itsfordinner.com/recipe/pita-bread

It’s cooked really really hot, really really quick and the steam creates a bubble.

Thanks, gigi!
You have Fought Ignorance. :slight_smile:

I had lavash served puffed up in a big bowl once too. I’m assuming it’s the same idea as pita.