Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!gatech!arnold From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Kosher Meals -- meat and fish together Message-ID: <4168@gatech.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 10:24:45 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.4168 Posted: Fri Feb 24 10:24:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 07:28:38 EST References: <981@pegasus.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta Lines: 23 When I was in Yeshiva in Israel a few years ago, the custom of using separate forks for meat and fish was explained to me as being of "Kabbalistic Origin", sort of implying, don't ask any more about it. I have never tried to find it in the Shulchan Aruch (literally "the set table", Code Of Jewish Law), but it is probably in there someplace, either in Orach Chaim (section on daily laws), or in Yoreh Daiah (section on what is permitted and forbidden), probably in the former. There are a surprising number of things which filtered into accepted Law and practice which are actually of Kabbalistic origin. I don't remember in detail, but the Mishna Brurah sites the phrasing of the "Rabotai N'varech" (Friends, let us bless...) opening of the Birkat HaMazon (Grace After Meals) as being based in the Kabbalah. I can look it up if necessary, and interest warrants. Anybody care to site any other examples? Yehudi HaMistovev, also known as, -- Arnold Robbins CSNET: arnold@gatech ARPA: arnold.gatech@CSNet-relay UUCP: ...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,ut-sally}!gatech!arnold Did'ja ever have one of those re-incarnations?