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I am Jewish and very proud of it. But something has always bothered me, who is the person that decided 5000 years or so ago that we had to keep kosher and couldn’t have an In-N-Out Burger, or bacon, or lobster and crab, or a chicken quesadilla because were mixing milk with meat, obviously the guy didn’t know that in and out was going to be coming To a city near him But it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me that I can’t have a cheeseburger without feeling guilty

The Rav Name: Rabbis of the Da’at Institute

Shalom and thank you for your question!

Have you ever entered a home where there was a party or get together of some kind, and you saw it through the window, but once you were in there, the atmosphere seemed very different than what it seemed like from the outside?

Leading a life according to the commandments in the Torah requires to a certain extent a community framework, an approach of belief based on study and contemplation, as well as commitment. Once you are ‘in’ that context, hamburgers, or the lack of them, are a small price to pay.

The truth is, it’s very likely that you already are happy to give up certain pleasures for the more meaningful pleasure of sticking with your principles. Hamburgers are just another case like that…

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