Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka explains that we are profoundly affected by the food that we eat. A Jew must be careful to ensure that what he eats is complimentary to his Jewish soul and that the soul can thrive through the consumption of that food.
Although animals with undesirable traits don't match with a Jewish neshama, milk and meat together create a new entity that has even stricter prohibitions than those for treife meat. Rabbi Hanoka includes not only what to eat, but also how to eat it.
kosher, meat, milk, rabbinic law, soul
