Kosher is essential!!

Sadly, the world is not a perfect place.

The jewish world is always at threat of hate and incoming negligence from many non-jews and sadly even many jews.

The worry of any kosher home is a non-kosher jewish friendship as well as a society where the children will be exposed to the love of treif which should be vomited out.

Still, it is not always possible if you are not at a jewish school to have a perfect relationship with other students if they are coercing your child to try non-kosher meats and other non-kosher non-edible foods.

I can only tell you that I did not keep kosher until I was maybe 30 and that was a hard decision.  I grew up to "like" the non-kosher meats and foods and always thought it was the greatest of the greats.  It took me a major life decision to learn that it was ignorant and very untidy as a jew to even consider eating things like crab lobster and pork.

Still, I will wonder all my life how the events and feelings in my life could have played out had I been kosher in all of my schooling and then in my employment prior to my days keeping kosher.

It is very hard and you can not in any sense really learn Torah at all until you keep kosher.  You will have private jewish feelings perhaps and you will likely have many non-kosher jewish friends who are exemplary citizens.  But until you keep kosher yourself, you are always at a loss.

So therefore, this is probably a good starting place in cinuch. Keep kosher.

Your child will have a much better chance to have a Torah life and find himself in good inner-mood.

The soul is not better in any sense when a treif item is introduced. The child perhaps will not be as easy to discover in his own feeling or her own will.

So though I will never likely study my own children in this state (baruch Hashem, I think G-d will keep this one safe for me to raise children in that day),  I will assume that I will indeed notice limited lacking experiences in the children of other jewish friends who are not raised kosher as well as I do in fact know many issues that many of my non-kosher friends have in learning Torah and having even the most simple jewish feelings.

Jewish feelings are important. A jewish soul can not exist with treif.

And thus, this is very much one of the most important things.   Of course any Orthodox jew would not even think this needs much discussion as they have no intention to do otherwise, but there are too many jews today that do not regard Torah as valued and thus they have no idea that the treif that the ingest is poison to their neshama and that the curse of eating this horror and abomination is a terror that can only be improved in a better sense of yiddishkeit and human value.

I can only state that I have tried kiruv on many friends in a very sensible manner and kosher is the most difficult thing to think that any of them will learn and assume righteous.

Its very hard and every excuse in the book and yet to be more have been thrown at me. I will discuss the importance and hope for the best.  But for me, I am happy now and know that G-d is real and will be my King.

That is good.  Who needs any other way of life.

G-d bless America.

Keep it kosher.