WHO CAN DO IT?

You want to really understand meat preparation-the Torah way. What is it that goes into making a kosher steak or lamb chop? But you don't know who can teach you. You'd probably need a team of three: a rabbi with mastery of the relevant laws, a scientist with a breadth of anatomical knowledge, and a veteran shochet (ritual slaughterer) who can share his expertise.

Guess again!

In Kosher Meat: Unexplored Frontiers with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, a one-of-a-kind video presentation, Rabbi Belsky, the world-renowned scholar who serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in New York and as a Senior Halachic Consultant for OU Kashruth, explores the lesser-known-and lesser-seen!-aspects of meat preparation. A master halachist, anatomist, and shochet, Rabbi Belsky addresses such questions as: How is a kosher animal identified? What does it mean to "chew the cud"? How does a shochet prepare for shechitah? What do the Matnos Kehuna (the portions given to the Kohein) look like? What's checked after shechitah?

Join him and understand meat preparation like you never imagined you could.

Kosher Meat: Unexplored Frontiers with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky is one of several projects of OU Kosher's expanded educational outreach. OU Kosher's educational programs include the nationally-renowned and ever-popular "OU Kosher Coming" program, which sends OU's expert rabbis to schools, synagogues and college campuses to share their knowledge of halacha and technology, as well as the ever-growing "Kosher Tidbits" series of short seminars on innumerable aspects of kashruth and certification, available at ouradio.org.

The Orthodox Union has produced two other DVD's devoted to kashruth education: "Kosher Kidz," which explains the basics of kosher certification to a youthful audience, and "The Kosher Fish Primer," which explains the basics of identifying kosher fish and purchasing them. Suggestions for future DVD's will be most appreciated; they can be sent to Rabbi Eliyahu Safran at SafranE@OU.org.

For further information on bringing OU Kosher to your school or
community, or to receive the previous DVD's, contact Rabbi Eliyahu
Safran at SafranE@ou.org