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Jewish Museum of Greece
Steal
knife (3,1cm.x 23,7cm.) for the ritual slaughter and stamps
(4,5cmx 9cm) for kosher meat, Athens.
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Jewish
religion imposes dietary rules (kasherout), as a means of differentiation
of its believers from other religions. A basic difference between
Jews and Christian is that these rules control the daily nutrition
of the former, contrary to the orthodox ones (fasting rules exclusively).
The permitted animals are especially slaughtered, pork is forbidden
and dairy products should not be combined with meat. On certain
occasions (festivals or fasting days) they prepare, as do Christians,
food with symbolic or commemorative significance, such as lamb or
coloured eggs in Pessah, adopted later by the Christian orthodox
tradition.
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