LEVITICUS 11 and DEUTERONOMY 14
These two chapters and books talk about what “YOU MAY EAT,” and what “YOU SHALL NOT EAT.”
Who commanded it and why?
The Answers:
Hashem spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them. Speak to the Children of Israel, saying: These are the creatures that you may eat from among all the animals that are upon the earth.
:1-2
For you are a holy people to Hashem, your God, and Hashem has chosen you for Himself to be a treasured people, from all the peoples on the face of the earth.
You shall not eat any abomination.
:2-3
*Now, the question is (as usual):
Who gave the right or authority to “change” what Hashem/G-d had said?
Everything among the animals that has a split hoof, which is completely separated into double hooves, and that brings up its cud – that one you may eat.
Leviticus 11:3
Among all [creatures] that are in the water, you may eat these: Any [of the creatures] in the water that has fins and scales, those you may eat, whether [it lives] in the waters, in the seas or in the rivers.
v. 9
v. 13-19 (can be understood as those birds that does not prey with other animals may be considered as clean).
However, among all the flying insects that walk on four [legs], you may eat [from] those that have jointed [leg like] extensions above its [regular] legs, with which they hop on the ground.
From this [locust] category, you may eat the following: …
v. 21-22
