Talk:Levin/@comment-5759915-20131030110424/@comment-6192846-20131030204754

If we're going to go down to the core of it, religion plays as much a role in Kosher laws as it does in the (former) Catholic law to only have fish on Sunday (I think its only on Lenten Sunday now). The purpose of the laws was to have the Hebrews avoid spreading plagues and other infectious diseases from animals, hence why the animals that weren't properly cleansed through certain "rituals" weren't eaten.

The religious connotation became attached later on as it became synonymous with their culture and religious tradition. Regardless, I am not sure if it is worth a specific trivia mention for the baemu. However, I thought we had a mention of the parallels between the real-world western religions (Judaism and later Christianity) for Levin?