taref

Updated: June 3, 2025

Thus they say that one of the commandments of the Pentateuch is that it is unlawful to partake of meat and butter together because it is taref, and taref in Hebrew means unclean, as kosher means clean. This, they say, is a question of law and not of reason. But the theologians think that the good and evil of things depend upon both reason and law.

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