Re: pork (was alcohol content?)

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Thank you for your response. I wonder if this is why pork has been

considered unkosher by Jewish tradition and haram (or is it halal?)

by Muslim tradition...

Leann

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In a message dated 8/4/02 10:41:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

happygardeners@... writes:

> Thank you for your response. I wonder if this is why pork has been

> considered unkosher by Jewish tradition and haram (or is it halal?)

> by Muslim tradition...

Maybe, but pigs have generally been considered " filthy " animals, hence the

word " swine, " or the preferred home of demons after humans, etc. Also, could

be symbolic things, pigs always look down and eat from the earth; chickens

eat from the earth and look up to the sky, that is, typify giving thanks to

God, etc,

chris

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" What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a

heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and

animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of

them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense

compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to

bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature.

Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the

truth, and for those who do them wrong. "

--Saint Isaac the Syrian