Kabbalah teaches that the physical attributes of fish reflect their psychological and spiritual qualities, and that the food a person eats has a profound effect on his/her psyche. This raises two questions: First, why are fins and scales the characteristics that distinguish kosher fish? Second, as the Talmud itself asks, why are fins presented as an identifying sign for kosher fish when they are redundant, since scaled fish inevitably have fins as well? In this stunning insight into the age-old question of why some things are kosher and others not, you will finally get the answers you have been fishing for all along.
