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Penance for Breaking Kosher?

Mar 13, 2012 20:44

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dragonbat2006 March 14 2012, 01:47:20 UTC

Scripture prohibits eating pork, not wearing pigskin. If it's needed to save a life (think medication in gelatin capsules), you can even ingest it. Bottom line, your character is doing absolutely nothing wrong. Kosher is not broken. No prayers. No penance. He just needs to wash the residue off his hands before eating.

fisher_queen March 14 2012, 01:52:15 UTC

Excellent! Thanks so much! I can definitely work with this!

dsgood March 14 2012, 01:54:20 UTC

And I believe even eating pork is recommended if the alternative is starvation.

dragonbat2006 March 14 2012, 01:55:38 UTC

Yup, that would fall under "needed to save a life".

dorsetgirl March 14 2012, 06:38:09 UTC

I entertained a guy who was Hindu once, and although I knew not to serve him beef, he said that when he was preparing to come over here to work, his father had said to him, "Do your best [to keep the dietary laws] but do what you have to to survive." He said he considered that eating beef when all around were doing so was just part of being in a foreign country.

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