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by edflsafoiewq 2354 days ago
It may also be that the rule was never the "shadow" of some empirico-rational observation at all.
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parrellel 2353 days ago
Like the milk and the calf rule from Judaism, which was pretty blatantly an authoritarian attempt to enforce social division.
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edflsafoiewq 2353 days ago
How so? Do you mean the Toraic rule about "seething a kid in its mother's milk" or the Rabbinic fences around it?
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jzvxkxbxjx 2354 days ago
:D

Maybe that’s just the way the Divine wanted it.

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