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A few months ago I came across a youtuber Zec Baeuer (sp?)
I like his manerisms and many of his arguments, I really like how he encourages Hebrew roots folks not to desparage your brother Judah for keeping Hanukkah. Anyway, he had a video where he was discussing how he thought turkey is kosher and his father-in-law doesn't so now they don't eat it.
I was kind of suprised by this as I am not aware of any Jews who consider turkey as treif (not kosher).
This got me to thinking, "how do Hebrew roots folks determine which birds are kosher?"
Birds are not listed with clearly identifiable rules in the Torah as other animals are so that we may identify immediately if a bird is kosher or not (fish for example easy: scales + fins = kosher).
Regarding birds, the written torah specifically lists several species of forbidden birds and leaves it at that. The assumption has been that any bird not on the "bad" list is good to go.
The problem is that some of the Hebrew words for those birds have been lost to antiquity.
So for Jews / Messianics, the way we identify which birds are allowed is simply if there is a Jewish tradition that those birds are allowed. If we came across a new bird, we wouldn't eat it since we don't know if it looks like one of the "lost" forbidden birds. For turkey, there are many traditions of eating this bird so ... it's allowed.
So, for folks who don't like tradition stuff, I'm curious how do you guys determine if Turkey is OK or not? What about other birds? We do have some birds of prey stuff to follow but outside of that is what I'm curious about.
Looking forward to learning in this area.
Thanks!
A few months ago I came across a youtuber Zec Baeuer (sp?)
I like his manerisms and many of his arguments, I really like how he encourages Hebrew roots folks not to desparage your brother Judah for keeping Hanukkah. Anyway, he had a video where he was discussing how he thought turkey is kosher and his father-in-law doesn't so now they don't eat it.
I was kind of suprised by this as I am not aware of any Jews who consider turkey as treif (not kosher).
This got me to thinking, "how do Hebrew roots folks determine which birds are kosher?"
Birds are not listed with clearly identifiable rules in the Torah as other animals are so that we may identify immediately if a bird is kosher or not (fish for example easy: scales + fins = kosher).
Regarding birds, the written torah specifically lists several species of forbidden birds and leaves it at that. The assumption has been that any bird not on the "bad" list is good to go.
The problem is that some of the Hebrew words for those birds have been lost to antiquity.
So for Jews / Messianics, the way we identify which birds are allowed is simply if there is a Jewish tradition that those birds are allowed. If we came across a new bird, we wouldn't eat it since we don't know if it looks like one of the "lost" forbidden birds. For turkey, there are many traditions of eating this bird so ... it's allowed.
So, for folks who don't like tradition stuff, I'm curious how do you guys determine if Turkey is OK or not? What about other birds? We do have some birds of prey stuff to follow but outside of that is what I'm curious about.
Looking forward to learning in this area.
Thanks!