Can Jewish people eat cheeseburgers?
Jews, like all human beings, are created with the free will to choose what they will do, how they will do it, and in general how they will live their lives. Those who choose to follow the guidance of Jewish ethics and morals, and the do’s and don’ts of life according to Judaism, will not eat cheeseburgers, since the laws of Kashrus (the Jewish dietary laws) rule out the combination of meat components and dairy components. The first contributor to post an answer to this question … about 2 hours before mine … wrote: No, it makes their brains implode 🙁 I felt obligated to change that answer, because it was written out of such a complete misconception, and is such a completely foreign concept in Judaism. There are obviously huge numbers (comparatively) of Jews who eat cheeseburgers, and hardly ever a report of an imploding head. The falsehood of the simplistic, causal relationship implied in the first answer is obvious to any sentient being with the proverbial half-a-brain. But even more important than all that, the reason for the dietary laws is clearly stated in the plain text of the Torah. The fact that it is almost universally ignored and never quoted is exactly because it takes so much more than half-a-brain, plus a lot of work, to understand what it means. The reason to eschew the cheeseburger, according to the Torah, is in order to “be holy”. I have lived for quite a long time and still do not understand what that means, and I venture to guess that you can say the same. But there is a reason for Kashrus. There it is, it has nothing to do with imploding heads, and it may be a lot bigger and more important than that.