How-To Guide: Creating Jewish Characters

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Bump I might create a post here about foods that we Jews can’t eat

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List of Permitted & Prohibited Foods

For those who don’t know:

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Meat

Mammals that are BOTH ruminants AND have cloven hooves can be kosher, so only certain animal products are permitted. So animals with one characteristic but not the other are not kosher (including wild animals, omnivores and carnivorans)
The animal must be slaughtered by a shochet — a person trained and certified to butcher animals according to Jewish laws. So if the animal was slaughtered by a non-Jew, then it’s prohibited to eat it.

List of permitted mammals

Cow
Sheep
Goat
Lamb
Oxen
Deer (rarely eaten)
Gazelle
Antelope
Addax

List of prohibited mammals

NOTE: Not All the prohibited mammals are named on the list.

Pig (of course)
Camel
Hyrax
Hare
Ferret
Mole
Mouse
Weasel
Bear
Lion
Dog
Cat
Horse
Squirrel
Tiger
Fox
Heyna
Monkey
Kangaroo

Prohobited body parts:

  • Portion that is cut from a live animal
  • Blood
  • Khelev (also known as “suet”)
  • Gid Ha’nasheh (trans. “displaced tendon”)

Reminder!

As some of you might know, we Jews can’t eat meat and dairy mixed together. We Jews CANNOT eat meat and shortly eat something dairy.
We have waiting periods between meat and dairy:

If someone eats something dairy and then wants to eat meat/chicken, he should wait at least a half an hour or hour. But if a hard cheese was eaten, then people usually wait 6 hours; if we eat meat and then want to eat dairy, then we wait 6 hours.

Birds

In the Torah, a list of 21 prohibited birds was given, when others were permitted.
It is generally accepted that any chicken that is not traditionally allowed, meaning that our parents and parents would eat them, is considered prohibited and not eaten.

List of permitted birds

Chicken
Turkeys
Goose
Duck
Swan
Quail (usually, it’s the Sepharadim who eat it)
Pigeons (or dove. But it’s not really eaten by any Jew. I think that there are some Jews who don’t even know that pigeons is kosher)

List of prohibited birds

ALL the raptors are prohibited

Caprimulgiformes

Corvus

Ostrich

Pelecaniformes

White stork

Bat

Hoopoe

Seafood

Well, most of the seafoods are prohibited, except certain kinds of fish.
Any fish that has both fins and scales may be eaten.

List of permitted fish

Nile perch

Red snapper

Tuna

Salmon

Cyprinus (the Ashkenazi Jews make their traditional food gefilte fish)

Clupeidae (herrings)

Tilapia

Whitefish

List of prohibited fish (and seafoods at all)

Shark
Trunkfish
Billfish
Crevalle Jack
Toad fish
Oilfish
Sphoeroides
Sturgeon
Tra

Other seafoods:

Shrimps
Eel
Sea urchin
Shells
Octopus
Jellyfish
Cancer
Lobster

When cleaning the fish from scales, whoever does it needs to make sure that he doesn’t injure its skin.

NOTE: There is a chance I didn't name ALL the permitted and prohibited seafoods. Same with meat and others.

Problems with the kashrut of fish that may appear:

  • As with all food products in fish, care should be taken that no work was done on Shabbat to bring them (fisherman, brought outside of the field, etc.) so that they are not prohibited from the Sabbath act.

NOTE: Yes. We Jews are NOT allowed to eat food made on Shabbat (= Saturday), even if it's made of kosher products. I know what you think: "But Kanu, how can you eat something if you can't cook on Shabbat?"
Well, on Friday (NOT in the evening) we cook before the commencement of the Shabbat, put and turn on a Shabbat plate, so we can heat the food.

  • There are types of fish that are found in worms in the head area or other areas, even within the meat, which is gross :nauseated_face:

  • Fish cooked by non-Jews is prohibited because of Bishul Akum, prohibiting us eating food cooked by non-Jews.

  • To praise the fish’s appearance sometimes artificial additives are added, even if the additives are kosher, you can cheat in pieces without fin and scales and sell non-kosher fish that looks kosher.

  • Fish brought from distant lands are often stored on the way in barrels with salt along with fish that are prohibited from eating which causes the pickling of kosher fish with unclean fish which disqualifies kosher fish.

Additional things:

  • All kinds of insects are not kosher, expect to certain kinds of locust (but today, Jews hardly eat it. At least where I live. I’ve never seen any supermarket selling locusts so far). It’s allowed from the Torah (Leviticus 11:21-22):

21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;

22 even of them ye may eat: the locusy after its kinds, and the bald locust
after its kinds, and the cricket after its kindsa, and the grasshopper after its kinds

  • All kinds of reptiles, amphibians and worms are not kosher

  • Wine that was made and touched by non-Jews, especially those who believe in idolatry, it’s not kosher.

  • Eating chametz in Passover is prohibited. We have a special kashrut for Passover.

  • We have 2 kinds of Kashrut:

  1. Mehadrin Kashrut (this one is more reliable)
  2. Ordinary Kashrut

And we have special kashrut for Passover.

If you have any questions, ask me

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Bump.

By the way, I have a good tip (and information) to give you when you create Jewish character:

We Jews put at the entrance of our houses, bedrooms, schools, classrooms and of course synagogues something called mezuzah. (In Israel, you’ll see it a lot in many places. But we don’t put it on church door or mosque).
Mezuzah only have to be put if a house or a place is owned by a Jew.

I’ll show you how it looks like:

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My teacher told me that you only have to put them there if a Jewish person owns the house/ lives in the house, is that true? :thinking::eyes::sparkles:

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Yep. Usually, if we own a place, like you said home or any other place, then yes.

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I really should add it.

Thanks, @Duckling

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Added the religion tag here as well!

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Medium small bump

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Medium bump :star_of_david:

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That’s really interesting. :heart: I don’t think I’ve seen that before though. :thinking: Maybe one day I will.

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How many Jewish festivals are there? I only know about Hanukkah

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Do you have any Jewish friends? In case you do, I believe you haven’t seen it because they’re probably secular (?)

By the way, you wrote “one say”, @PensiveShadow :no_mouth:

NOTE: We DON’T put a mezuzah at the entrance of bathrooms. So guys, please take it to your attention.

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With the fast days and ethnic groups’ festivals together, there are around 20 festivals.

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Woah that’s loads! I won’t ask you to name them all :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Well, I already named most of them.

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By the way, what Jewish festivals would you like to celebrate the most?

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What languages do people speak in Israel? Apart from Hebrew, I’m assuming

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Hmmm. It’s not a festival, but Jewish weddings seem like so much fun!

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Apart from Hebrew, some people speak Russian, French, Amharic, Yiddish, Latino, Spanish… Depending on what ethnic group you belong to. And of course, we have Arabic (which has a special position, but is spoken by the Arabs) and English.

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I can tell you more about Jewish weddings if you’re interested.

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