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...use a serious skin problem, these are also not aloud to be consumed in the Jewish dietary laws and therefore there is no risk of this. Spiritual benefits There are many spiritual advantages to keeping kosher these include: Self-discipline: If you keep kosher then to a certain degree you are retaining yourselves from consuming other foods. This teaches self-disapline. If you can manage to not eat what you please than usually this means that you can control yourself in other aspects of your life. For an example, you have to discipline yourself to not eat meat and milk together and allow for the time gap. This means you could not eat steak and then a chocolate bar afterwards, you must wait the given time, however much you may want the chocolate. Sensitivity: Keeping kosher means you must follow the rules of kosher slaughtering. The animal is always killed as humanely as possible as fore not to make it suffer. This teaches you to be more sensitive towards other aspects of life. Even the law of not mixing meat and milk has a sensitive reasoning. The cow was once fed milk from its mother and this gave it life, it is not humane to then eat the cow with the same thing that gave it life after it has died. This feeling of sensitivity towards animals also rubs off on people as well and makes you a better person for it. Keeping kosher as a religion, shows you are willing to uphold G-ds law. Most Jews keep kosher and it reminds them that as G-ds people they must keep the law he gave them. It makes them feel more spiritually in touch with G-d. You are what you eat. G-d teaches the Jews that if you eat non-kosher food it blocks ‘the spiritual potential of the soul.’ Animals that are properly slaughtered are said to contain ‘sparks of holiness’, this is taken into by consumption. As the torah states, ‘One who eats forbidden foods is infected by an unclean spirit.’ Keeping kosher is there fore has several spiritual advantages. It helps you control your own life and also look at other people’s life in a sensitive perspective. It brings you closer to God and makes you a more understanding, kinder person. There are also many disadvantages to keeping kosher. These include: Difficulties The disadvantages of keeping kosher are usually the fact that it can be difficult to keep in a non-Jewish society, for example Britain. At work, at school or college, it becomes difficult keep. The canteen may not serve kosher food. This means that you would have to constantly bring your own food with you, that you know for sure is ...