ובא וראה מה שכתב הרמב"ם ז"ל, וזה תוכן דבריו בקיצור על פי חכמת הטבע, כי מכל מיני מאכל ומשקה נעשה דם, ומהדם יורד אל הכבד, ומהכבד עולה הברירות אל הלב, ומהלב יורד המובחר והדק אל המוח, ושם שורה השכל וחיות של האדם.

ומי ששומר עצמו ממאכלות המותרות והאסור והטמא, נעשו דמיו צלולין וטהורין, ויש לו לב טהור, והמוח והחיות שלו נעשה חיות טהורות להשיג אמיתית החיות שהיא אלקות של כל העולמות המחי' את כולם. ומי ששומר עצמו יותר, ומקדש את אכילתו עפ"י דרכי ד' ותורתו, נעשה מזה בנין אב, והוא השכל לכל רמ"ח איבריו ומתקדשים ומתטהרים.

וכן להיפוך ח"ו, נעשה בנין אב שכל עקור ומעופש בדעות זרות, וחיות שלו נעשה בחינת מת, והוא אבי אבות הטומאה וכו', ורמ"ח איבריו נטמאים וטמא טמא יקרא לכל דבר, ונעלם ממנו אמיתת החיות שהיא אלקות של כל העולמות, ונטמא ונופל לדיעות זרות ואלהים אחרים, הם אלילים אלמים מתים וזבחי מתים יקראו להם.

לכן התנאים ואמוראים ובעלי המדות וחכמי המשנה הם שמרו נפשן שלא יתגאלו בפת בג הזקן וביין משתיו, ולכן האירו שכלם והי' שורה עליהם רוח הקודש, לפרש כל מאמר סתום בדת התורה הקדושה, כי שרתה עליהם כח אלקי, אשר הוא ואורייתא כולא חד ואור נשמתם ג"כ הוא חוט המשולש אשר לא ינתק לעולם ולעולמי עולמים. אבל אנשים הללו בודאי טמאים ונטמאו דמם, ומשם לבם ומוח שלהם נטמטם במאכלות האסורות והטמאות, ולכך החיות שלהם נוטה למינות ואפיקורסות, ולא יכלו לקבל מתיקות נופת צוף דברי מאמרינו הבנוים עפ"י שכל אלקי עולם ומלך עליון. והואיל והעיזו פניהם ויצאו לחוץ, פתאום יבוא עליהם הכורת, וכרות יכרתו אותם וכל אשר להם. וכך עלתה להם, כי לא היו ימים מועטים עד אשר בא עליהם מלך גדול והרג אותם וביזז כל אשר להם, עכת"ד.

היוצא לנו מהנ"ל: שכל איש אשר רגליו עמדו על הר סיני, ואשר בוער בקרבו עדיין ניצוץ של יראת שמים,  יפריש עצמו ובני ביתו מאכילת בשר בהמה אשר כל כשרותו אינו אלא סילוף וזיוף, וסמיית עיניים, כאשר הרבנים הצדיקים צועקים מרה.

THE IMPORTANCE OF KASHRUT OBSERVANCE AND THE SEVERITY OF THE PUNISHMENT FOR TRANSGRESSING THE LAWS SET FORTH IN THE TORAH AND THROUGH OUR RABBIS O.B.M.

 Whosoever eats forbidden foods…

1) Is judged as a despised person since Hashem loathes him in this world and the world to come. (Zohar‑part 111, 41.)

2) Defiles his soul (ibid) (Reishis Chochma)

3) Will suffer much since all of a man's suffering in this world is because he was not scrupulous in the observance of kashrut. (ibid, 42)

4) Attaches his soul to the forces of impurity and a spirit of defilement rests upon him. (Ibid)

5) Leaves the sphere of holiness and enters a sphere of impurity. (ibid, 42)

6) Woe unto him and woe unto his soul. He has not attached himself to those of the eternal life. (ibid, 41)

IT IS AS IF HE WORSHIPS IDOLS

7) Is as though he has a worshipped idols G-d forbid. (ibid,)

8) Has no part of the G-d of Israel (ibid, 41)

9) Will have his face take on the appearance of a wild animal. (Zohar part 11, 125)

10) Is as though his soul has left him and he remains a living corpse and is considered evil. (Chasam Sofer Parshas Shmini)

11) Has entered within him thoughts of atheism and heresy. (Rambam)

12) Unintentionally defiles his soul; with intent – his soul becomes like that of a lizard. (Or Hachayim Shmini)

HE PROLONGS THE EXILE

13) Prolongs the coming of the Mashiach, (Bris Mateh Moshe)

14) Does not belong to Hashem (Rashi on the verse A Holy Nation")

15) Forces his soul to become subservient to the body and its physical environs. (Sefas Emes, Parshes Shmini) 36) even though he merely is lenient in something which requires stringency, defiles his soul and is unable to comprehend the ideas of the Torah. (Meor Veshemesh)

16) Will see his children turn to evil ways. (Igre D pirke 126)

HE WILL COMMIT OTHER SEVERE SINS

17) Will commit other severe sins and will fall prey to the evils of the gentile world. (Divrei Yoel Parshas Shmini).

18) Even rabinically forbidden foods, brings one to further sins (Kav Hayashor, Avot D'rabeinu Noson chap. 15)

19) Creates an impurity in his heart and soul (Mesilat Yesharim)

20) Feeds his body with prohibited objects. Eventually his body will become filled with all types of impurity. (Nidchai Israel chap. 29)

21) Will have impurity become another limb on his body. (Reishis Chochmo Shar Hakedusho chap. 17)

HE CAN NEVER BE PURIFIED AND DESTROYS
HIS SHARE IN THE WORLD TO COME

22) Can never be purified and destroys his share of this world and the world to come. (Yesh S'char pg. 42)

23) Because of minimal impurity one can be brought to the depths of Gehinomm. (Arugath Habosem)

24) Most apikorsim (heretics) have become so due to eating neveilos and treifos. (Chasam Sofer Kdoshim)

25) Because of unsuitable shochtim, Jews are unable to earn a livelihood. (Likutei Moharan)

ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN LOST THROUGH THIS SIN

26) There is no sin so severe as forbidden foods, since entire Jewish communities were lost and turned to evil ways because of eating treifos and neveilos. (Divrei Chayim‑Yoreh Deah)

27) Will find it impossible to pray with the proper devotion and intention  (Or Haganuz ‑ Parshas Toldos)

THOSE WHO STUMBLE THROUGH FORBIDDEN FOODS BECOME INSOLENT PEOPLE AND ARE THOSE WHO DON’T FEAR G-D

28) The majority of insolent people in every generation, failing in yiras shomayim (fear of Hashem) and non‑acceptance of rebuke come about by eating forbidden foods. (Pri Chadash ‑Yoreh Deah 81)

29) Will become a heretic and evil. (Shulchan hatohor­ quoting the Ari z.l)

30) Is held captive by his own impurity and is thus unable to ascend to holiness. He is unable to separate himself from his impurity until he is buried in the grave or through consistent penitence and fasting. (Sefer Tfila Lemoshe, chap. 68)

31) Even unknowingly, needs to repent for the wrong he has done. (Sifrei Chasidim in the name of the holy Baal Shem Tov)

The whole matter of death in this world came about because of the sin of eating something that was forbidden, the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge As it is written (Bereshit 2:17): “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die”. As a direct result of it, death was brought onto the world to all men for all generations. The Ramban

There is no sin so severe as forbidden foods, since entire Jewish communities were lost and turned to evil ways because of eating treifos and neveilos. (Divrei Chayim‑Yoreh Deah)

THE EREV RAV ASKED FOR MEAT AND IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM [AND NOWADAYS THEY STILL CONTROL THE MEAT]

And the EREV RAV asked for meat and it was given to them. And what is written? “And the meat was still between their teeth before being torn and the fury of G-d” (Bamidbar 11,33)…And the secret of this meat is “For he is also flesh” [SHAGAM HU BASSAR] (Bereshit 6:3). And this secret was left in the hands of the wise of heart…And this BASSAR [meat] in reverse is SHEBER [Broken] And on this it is written: “SHEVER RAAVON BATECHEM” [The broken famine of your houses] (Bereshit 42:19). If they are deserving then the meat is holy as it is written “MI BESSARI ECHEZE ELOKA” But if they don’t guard that BASSAR [meat] the sign of the Brit, then it will change for them to SHEBER. Tikkune Zohar Tikkun 19

THE EREV RAV MADE THE GOLDEN CALF AND THEIR FLESH
 IS THE FLESH OF DONKEYS

When they did the golden calf, Moshe thought that it was the Jews who had done it… Then Hashem told him “Go down for your people have corrupted” Immediately he descended and saw the calf who had the image of a donkey and a bull. And he asked the donkey: Who made you? And it said the EREV RAV made me, for their flesh is the flesh of donkeys. The bull said the same thing… Tikkune Zohar, 142a

THE SERPENT IS THE FORBIDDEN FAT WHICH IS FORBIDDEN TO THE JEWS

The thin intestine this is the healthy serpent, the serpent AKALATON, that the Tzaddikim are destined to eat. And there is an impure fat [Chelev], which is the serpent and which is forbidden to eat the holy Jews, for about it, it is written (Bereshit 3: 14): “Cursed are you more than all cattle”  Tikkune Zohar, 140b

Unfortunately, now the breach in the observance of kashruth has become much more widespread than in years gone by. In years gone by, every Jew, even the unlearned ones, kept a very close watch over the food that entered their homes, since all foods were prepared at home. No one would dare purchase commercially prepared foods and rely on hechsherim and lenient rulings of all sorts. Ask your parents or grandparents who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, and they will tell you how scrupulous they were with the sanctity of foods in the European communities that have since been destroyed, that no one, not even the most unlearned, would eat or give his family to eat foods prepared outside his home, without his supervision over their preparation from beginning to end. Now, however, there are many who permit all kinds of products according to the most lenient rulings in halachah, and the most observant purchase all sorts of commercially produced foods, even those manufactured by non‑Jews, as long as there is some kind of hechsher stamped on the container. It is irrelevant whose hechsher it is, as long as it says, "kosher" in Hebrew letters. As will be explained in this book, many of the hechsherim are given by rabbis who have no idea of the intricacies of food manufacturing. Consequently, they inadvertently permit many products containing non‑kosher ingredients. People should, therefore, avoid using all kinds of commercial products.

The saintly Chofetz Chaim writes in his book, Machaneh Israel, that a Jewish soldier once asked him what he should choose. He was given the choice to be in a division under a fine commander, who allows the soldiers to slaughter and eat kosher meat, but there he would have to work on the Shabbat, or to be in another division where he would not be able to eat kosher food, but he would not be coerced to work on the Shabbat. He asked what he should do. The Chofetz Chaim told him to go to the division where he would be forced to work on the Shabbat and added the following reason: Even though Shabbat is a capital offense, when he comes home, he would be able to observe many Shabbossim. If he eats neveilos and trefos, however, "the damage to his soul will remain permanently," [..And he will end up not eating Kosher and not observing Shabbat]

Prohibited Foods Contaminate a Person’s Soul

The prohibition of the foods that the Torah prohibited is not due to the harm they cause one’s health, for the nations eat all those things deemed disgusting for us, and they are, nevertheless, strong and untiring. The G-dly Torah did not come to cure the bodies of men and to seek their health but to seek the health of the soul and to cure its illnesses. The Torah prohibited certain foods because they contaminate and sully the pure soul and create in the person’s nature an obstruction and deterioration of his desires, whence they create an evil nature in a person, from which the spirit of contamination originates, the spirit that contaminates the thoughts and deeds and drives out the spirit of purity and sanctity. concerning this spirit, King David begged, “And Your Holy Spirit remove not from me (Ps. 51).” And he said, “A pure heart create in me, O L-rd, and a proper spirit renew in my midst.” Therefore, G-d said, “Do not contaminate your souls..,and do not become unclean through them.” For this was the matter of the obstruction and the uncleanness. The reason for its prohibition is that nature of the body be balanced and that from its foods will eminate pure blood, not contaminated thick and coarse blood. (Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel, Shemini).

THE PERSON SUFFERS WHETHER HE
 EATS KNOWINGLY OR WITHOUT KNOWING

The  Zohar Ha Kaddosh (Shemini 41b) states: Come and see. Everyone who eats of those forbidden foods, cleaves to the forces of evil and thereby contaminates himself and his soul, resulting, an unclean spirit to rest upon him, displaying, thereby he has no part in the Most High G­-d ... and if he departs from this world in that condition, all those that adhere to the forces of uncleanness cling to him, contaminate, and judge him as a person who despised his Master, he is despised in this world and despised in the World to Come ... Woe is to them! Woe is to their souls for they will not cling to the bundle of eternal life, for they have become contaminated ... All of a person's toil is for his mouth. All judgment, all one suffers and all vengeance wrought upon him, is all on account of his mouth, because he did not watch it and thereby, contaminated himself.

A person should quake when he reads the words of the Zohar concerning the immeasurable damage a person wreaks upon his soul by eating forbidden foods. For in doing so, he grasps and clings to the evil forces resulting in unclean spirits to cleave unto him, thereby demonstrating he has no part in the G‑d of Israel, G‑d forbid! Therefore, one must be particularly suspect from eating foods of dubious kashrus, surely not definitely non‑kosher foods.

In this matter, the Zohar Ha Kaddosh continues (42a): Rabbi Yitzchak said: Whoever becomes contaminated through these foods is like one practicing idolatry, which is an abomination to the L‑rd, as the Torah writes: You shall not eat any abomination. Whosoever practices idolatry departs from the side of life, departs from the Holy domain, and enters the evil one; as does also one who contaminates himself with these foods depart from the side of life, depart from the Holy domain, and enter an evil one, and not only that, but he becomes contaminated both in this world and in the World to Come.

בתורה הקדושה כתוב: ואנשי קודש תהיון לי, (שמות כ"ב). על המילים ואנשי קודש תהיון לי אומר רשי הקדוש: אם אתם קדושים ופרושים מנבילות וטריפות הרי אתם שלי, ואם לאו אתם של נבוכדנצר וחבריו, הפשט הוא כך: הקדוש ברוך הוא אומר כשהיהודים יהיו קדושים, והם לא יאכלו נבילות וטריפות, אז הם יהיו שלי, וכשהם יאכלו נבילות וטריפות הם לא יהיו שלי, ועל המלים לכלב תשליכון אותו אומר רש"י: "שהכלב נכבד ממנו, הכוונה שכמישהו אוכל טריפות הוא יותר גרוע מכלב"

In the holy book, M'lo Haomer (Shemini) we read that if one eats unclean species or forbidden foods, not only does he not raise up the "sparks" but he contaminates himself with them since they are from the "evil side," and his soul descends to the "husks." Therefore, Scripture states: It is unclean to you. Not only are they not capable of rising, but also he will contaminate himself with them.

Also, in Tefillah LeMoshe (ch. 68): Whoever eats forbidden foods is bound to the uncleanness, and he cannot ascend to the holiness. It is impossible for him to separate himself from the loathsomeness of the uncleanness except through fasts and penitence or through chibut hakever known otherwise as beating in the grave. Who needs it.

Also, in Or Tzaddikim, ch. 19: Be thou advised… Whoever was not exact in his observance of dietary laws in this world and was not careful to differentiate between that prohibited and that permitted, even if it was not prohibited by the Torah but by the Rabbis, his punishment is, that after his death, the angel in charge of the beating of the grave comes and hits him on his stomach with his bar of iron and fire, until his stomach splits and the ordure spills out. They then turn him over his face to strike him.. They say to him, "Swallow what you gave out” May G‑d guard and save us from this harsh judgment or the like! And especially is this true of the sin of mingling meat and milk, which is a serious offense, and the Zohar states: Whoever eats that food which is joined together at one time or at one meal, for forty days a roasted kid in its skin appears ... and if he begets a son in these forty days, they give him a soul from the 'evil side,' that we do not need.

THE MOST UPRIGHT BUTCHER IS A PARTNER
OF AMALEK  Kiddushin (82a)

"The most upright butcher is a partner of Amalek." Rashi explains that many cases of questionable kashrut come to his hand, and in trying to save money, declares them kosher, and ‑ sell them as such. We can see to what extent the Rabbis evaluate the pitfalls resulting from the butchers, that they did not hesitate to use the sharpest epithet when referring to them. The expression, "partner of Amalek," is, by far, the sharpest epithet used in the Talmud. One's hair can stand on end when one thinks about how far this matter extends. For a question of doubtful kashrut the Rabbis called him such a name, and not only a usual butcher, but "the most upright butcher " so that no one can be confident in himself and say that since he appointed a reliable butcher, no pitfalls can result from him, and it is accepted that a Torah scholar does not allow any pitfall to result from his doings, especially if the butcher is really learned, since the Rabbis say that a Torah scholar will commit a minor infraction in order to prevent an ignorant person from committing a major infraction.

EATING FORBIDDEN FOODS IS WORSE THAN OTHER SINS

We learn in the holy book entitled Likutei Amarim, known popularly by the name, Tanya (chs. 6 and 7) and authored by the holy Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi:

We learn in the holy Zohar at the end of parshas Shemini, that an unclean spirit rests on forbidden foods. Consequently, whoever eats them contaminates his soul and body, resulting in the unclean spirit to rest up on him. Moreover, he demonstrates that he has no part in the G‑d of Israel and the sanctity of Israel. He brings upon himself confusion of the mind. Additionally, it is known from Tosafos (Shabbos 12b, Chulin 5b) that eating forbidden foods is worse than infracting other prohibitions. This is what King Solomon refers in (Ecclesiastes 6:7): All of a person's toil is for his mouth. The Zohar explains this to mean that all the toil and punishments a person suffers after his death, in Gehinnom, are because he contaminated his soul during his lifetime by eating forbidden foods, such as dead animals not slaughtered properly, and trefos. Also the soul will not be fulfilled. Its punishment will never be completed. It is also written in Proverbs (21:23): Whoever watches his mouth and his tongue, watches his soul from troubles. Do not read, "From troubles (mitzaros)," but "From tzaraas." (ibid, Tazria; Tanchuma, Metzora). Now, if you ask, don't we see many people who stumble upon this sin and are not punished with Tzaraas, the Sefer Reishis Chochmah (Shaar Hakedushah ch. 13) answers that the Tzaraas is established in the soul, and when the soul ascends to heaven every night, all the holy creatures stay away from it and announce that it is unclean, as the Torah states: And he shall call, "Unclean, unclean!" This is true even after its departure from this world, if he did not repent. (Shaar Bath Rabbim).

מרן בעל תולדות יעקב יוסף בפ' נשא

מערמת הס"מ שלא לפתות כל יחיד, רק מעמיד שוחטים בכל מקום מסיטרא דילי'  ועל ידי זה הכל ברשותו

עתה התחכם היצר הרע שלא יצטרך לילך ולפתות וללכוד ברשתו כל יחיד ויחיד, רק יחיד אשר רבים נכשלים בו,  והוא שמעמיד שוחט בעיר מסיטרא דילי' המאכיל טריפות לרבים וכולם נלכדו ברשתו

FOR MANY YEARS JEWISH HOUSEHOLDS WERE SUPPLIED WITH NON KOSHER MEAT.  A TRAGIC STORY WHICH HAPPENED IN THE TIME OF THE TZADDIK RABBI NATTAN NOTA SHAPIRO ZTK'L AUTHOR OF THE MEGALE AMUKOT THIS STORY WAS PRINTED IN NEWSPAPERS AND BOOKS MORE THAN 300 YEARS AGO

  במשך שנים רבות פיטמו את המטבח היהודי בבשר טריפה ונבילה, סיפור מזעזע שאירע בעיר קראקא, בזמן כהונתו של הצדיק הקדוש רבי נתן נטע שפירא זצ"ל, בעל מחבר מגלה עמוקות

CONTRACT WITH THE RABBI or STORE OWNER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KASHRUT OF FOODS ESPECIALLY MEATS AND CHAMETZ FREE PRODUCTS DURING PASSOVER

Dear Rabbi ___________ OR Mr_______________:

--Being that the punishment for eating Non Kosher foods is very grave, especially the punishment for eating forbidden fats which carries the penalty of Karet, and also the consumption of Chametz in Passover which also carries the penalty of Karet

--Being that the Zohar ha Kaddosh Shemini 41b says:

 Come and see: Everyone who eats of those forbidden foods, cleaves to the forces of evil and thereby contaminates himself and his soul, resulting in an unclean spirit to rest upon him, displaying, thereby he has no part in the Most High G­-d ... and if he departs from this world in that condition, all those that adhere to the forces of uncleanness cling to him, contaminate, and judge him as a person who despised his Master, despised in this world and despised i