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Posted by Mitch45 on Fri Dec 23 11:19:14 2011, in response to Re: What is So Terrible About Anchovies?, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 23 10:33:33 2011. I see. I think we have a miscommunication about what "traif" means.The word "traif" means different things to different people. To me, a "traif" animal is (1) any animal or fish that is specifically delineated in the Torah as being so and (2) any kosher animal that is made traif by its not being prepared as per Jewish law. For example, my best friend in law school was Roman Catholic. His mother would always invite me for dinner and I always had to politely decline for kashrus reasons. One day, my friend told me that his mother decided to surprise me by visiting a glatt kosher butcher store in Kew Gardens Hills (where I grew up) and bought steaks, which she had duly prepared in her oven in her house in Garden City. I felt awful when I had to decline again because the kosher meat was prepared in a traif oven and therefore had become traif. And yes, it is true that the word "traif" does not appear in the Torah. "Traif" is actually a Yiddish word that evolved from the Hebrew word tarefa, meaning "carrion". A carrion is the carcass of a dead animal which is considered unkosher in the Torah. |
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