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( Kashrut)
Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, ?????????) refers to Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed kosher in English, from the Hebrew term kashér, meaning "fit" (in this context, fit for consumption by Jews according to traditional Jewish law). Jews may not consume non-kosher food (but there are no restrictions for non-dietary use, for example, injection of insulin of porcine origin). Food that is not in accord with Jewish law is informally called treif, (????? or treyf, Hebrew ??????? trefáh). In the technical sense, treif means "torn" and refers to improperly slaughtered meat. Meat from a non-kosher animal is called a neveila which literally means "an unclean thing". Many of the basic laws of kashrut are derived from the Torah's Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, with their details set down in the oral law (the Mishnah and the Talmud) and codified by the Shulchan Aruch and later rabbinical authorities. The Torah does not explicitly state the reason for most kashrut laws, and many varied reasons have been offered for these laws, ranging from philosophical and ritualistic, to practical and hygienic. By extension, the word kosher means legitimate, acceptable, permissible, genuine or authentic, in a broader sense.[1]
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