{"id":43044,"date":"2018-10-30T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43044"},"modified":"2022-05-26T00:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:30:34","slug":"biblical-recipes-but-not-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/biblical-recipes-but-not-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Recipes  &#8211; But Not For Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[415,688],"acf":{"old_id":"43044","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":42598,"related_cahpter":"80","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Open source, but strict quality control","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">When we think about recipes today, we are likely to think about food. Bookstores and the internet are overflowing with cook books, not least Jewish ones. Need to make gluten-free vegan challah? Reach for your smartphone! There&#8217;s no dearth of instructions in the Torah concerning which animals are permitted for food (Lev. 11; Deut. 14:3-21) and where they may be eaten (Lev. 6:19). There are rules and regulations about when certain agricultural produce (Deut. 26:10-11) and fruit of trees can be eaten (Leviticus 19:23-25).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">But there are no recipes\u2014at least for food. Instead, the kind of instructions and ingredient lists we might associate with an Ottolenghi cookbook are reserved for incense (Ex. 30: 34-37), and inedible blends of oil (vv. 22-25):<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;[T]ake choice spices: five hundred weight of solidified myrrh, half as much\u2014two hundred and fifty\u2014of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty of aromatic cane, five hundred\u2014by the sanctuary weight\u2014of cassia, and a hin of olive oil. Make of this a sacred anointing oil, a compound of ingredients expertly blended, to serve as sacred anointing oil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Today, the legal protection of ingredients and processes is most familiar in the fast-food arena, notoriously with certain soft drinks. Coca Cola\u2019s \u2018secret ingredient\u2019 was famously \u2013 perhaps apocryphally \u2013 said to have caused problems for kashrut authorities. But Coca Cola is by no means unique in this respect. In his life-changing 2007 book The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan shares an eye-opening account of his visit to the maximum-security lab where scientists are inventing the latest \u2026 breakfast cereal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">By contrast, the list of ingredients for anointing oil and incense are published in the Torah for all to see. But some things haven\u2019t changed. There\u2019s a strict ban on inappropriate usage (think, \u2018for external use only\u2019), and unlicensed producers will be shut down \u2013 forever: \u201cThis shall be an anointing oil sacred to Me throughout the ages. It must not be rubbed on any person&#8217;s body, and you must not make anything like it in the same proportions; it is sacred, to be held sacred by you. Whoever compounds its like, or puts any of it on a layman, shall be cut off from his kin\u201d (Exod 30:31-33).<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Adapted from <em>From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah<\/em>, Diana Lipton (Urim Publications, 2018).<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":105144,"id":105144,"title":"-628e9fe5c03ed--628e9fe5c03efex30-spices recipe.jpg","filename":"628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/biblical-recipes-but-not-for-food\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":43044,"date":"2022-05-25 21:30:13","modified":"2022-05-25 21:30:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1271,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg-300x199.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":199,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg-768x508.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":508,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg-1024x678.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":678,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1017,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1271,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg-1200x794.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":794,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/628e9fe5c03ed-628e9fe5c03efex30-spices-recipe.jpg-634x420.jpg","home_baner-width":634,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Biblical Recipes  - 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