Wolfish Musings: The Unchanging Torah and its Changes

Wolfish Musings: The Unchanging Torah and its Changes: "SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009
The Unchanging Torah and its Changes
I was at a good friend's son's Bar Mitzvah tonight when another friend of mine told the following joke:

Moses is up on the mountain receiving the Torah. God is dictating the commandments to him and he is faithfully writing them down to disseminate them to the Children of Israel. Then the Lord says:

"THOU SHALT NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK."

"God," starts Moses, "does that mean that we can't eat milk and meat together?"

'THOU SHALT NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK," booms the Lord again.

"Lord," asks Moses, "does this mean that we have to have two separate sets of dishes?"

"THOU SHALT NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK," thunders the Almighty again.

"God," entreats Moses again "does this mean we have to wait six hours after meat before we eat milk again?"

A exasperated voice comes down from the heavens: "DO WHAT YOU WANT!""