Exploring The Prohibition of Milk and Meat Part 1

January 21st, 2011|Kashrut|

The Torah’s prohibition to cook a kid goat in its mother’s milk is understood by Chazal to prohibit the cooking of meat from cows, sheep, and goats, together with milk, even if it is not from the animal’s mother. Why is there such a gap between the literal and halakhic meaning of the verse, and in what way is the halakha of meat and milk shaped by the simple sense of the verse?
 
The first question, the reason for the gap between the literal and halakhic meaning of the verse, is not unique to this