Kashrut

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Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, כַּשְׁרוּת‎) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. food that may be consumed is deemed kosher (/ˈkoʊʃər/ in English, Yiddish: כּשר‎), from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér (כָּשֵׁר‎), meaning fit (in this context: fit for consumption). Although the details of the laws of kashrut are numerous and complex, they rest on a few basic principles: Every food that is considered kosher is also categorized as follows:.

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