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In addition, a minute amount of un-kosher foodstuffs is enough to render an entire dish completely unfit for Jewish consumption – hardly a physical phenomenon. This point is also proven by the fact that while Jews are almost physiologically identical to other peoples of the world, still, according to Torah, non-Jews are permitted to eat non-kosher.
The reason we eat kosher (or keep any of the Torah's commandments, for that matter) is because, in His infinite and unknowable wisdom, the Creator of the World decreed it. The Torah tells us that eating non-kosher foods is an "abomination",2 and we are forbidden to "defile" ourselves 3 by eating such foods. Would G-d use such abstract wordage for something as down-to-earth as health hazards?
All in all, a person should not be misled to think that keeping kosher is for health reasons. Neither does the fact that a food item is kosher mean that it is necessarily healthy. We should be encouraged to develop the most appropriate, G-dly, diet possible – both for body and soul.
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