Kosher

Hari ini angkatan aku jalan-jalan ke perusahaan ekstrak di daerah karang pandan, karang anyar. Tempatnya enak, dingin, dan asri banget, serasa ga berada di pabrik hehehe… Kata bapak-bapaknya yang tadi guiding kami jalan-jalan, 90% produk mereka di ekspor ke luar negeri terutama asia timur dan mulai merambah juga ke amerika.

Sewaktu session tanya jawab aku menanyakan gimana cara mereka memenuhi requirement orang-orang luar yang terkenal njlimet dan ekstra detil. Salah satu yang disampaikan pak fajar (salah satu apoteker di perusahaan tersebut) mereka berusaha memenuhi mutu yangdi ajukan oleh customer luar negeri baik dari sisi intern produknya, maupun ekstern (manajemen perusahaan). Satu hal yang bikin aku agak terhenyak adalah adanya sertifikasi kosher, sertifikasi “halal” dari sudut pandang Yahudi. Aku sendiri baru inget juga di Pentateukh terutama di Kitab Imamat memang banyak kriteria halal-haram yang udah di list ama YHWH (*secara ini lagi bahas yahudi hehehe..). Berikut beberapa kutipan kriteria Kosher menurut Kitab Imamat:

• Larangan mengkonsumsi lemak dan darah (Leviticus 7:22-27)
  

  22 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  

  23 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
  

  24 ‘Also the fat of an animal which dies, and the fat of an animal torn by beasts , may be put to any other use, but you must certainly not eat it.
  

  25 ‘For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which an offering by fire is offered to the LORD, even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people.
  

  26 ‘And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
  

  27 ‘Any person who eats any blood, even that person shall be cut off from his people.’ “

• Larangan mengkonsumsi hewan yang tidak berkuku belah dan tidak memamah biak (Leviticus 11:1-8)
  

  1 The LORD spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
  

  2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.
  

  3 ‘Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
  

  4 ‘Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you.
  

  5 ‘Likewise, the rock badger, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;
  

  6 the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;
  

  7 and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you.
  

  8 ‘You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

• Larangan mengkonsumsi hewan air yang tidak bersisik dan yang tidak bersirip (Leviticus 11:9-12)
  

  9 ‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
  

  10 ‘But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers, that do not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,
  

  11 and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest.
  

  12 ‘Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.

• Larangan mengkonsumsi beberapa jenis burung (Leviticus 11:13-19)
  

  13 ‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
  

  14 and the kite and the falcon in its kind,
  

  15 every raven in its kind,
  

  16 and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,
  

  17 and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl,
  

  18 and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture,
  

  19 and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

  Sebenarnya dalam Perjanjian Lama khususnya Pentateukh (kelima kitab Musa) terdapat banyak sekali kriteria tentang makanan dan minuman serta tindakan yang masuk dalam kategori haram. Kata kosher sendiri menurut Concise Oxford English Dictionary (11th ed) berasal dari kata Ibrani kāšēr yang secara harfiah berarti “proper“/ sesuatu yang layak.

  Ga nyangka sebenarnya kalo ternyata kaum Yahudi masih memegang prinsip kosher ini. Dan lebih jauh lagi membuat sertifikasi layaknya sertifikasi Halal MUI bagi ummat Islam di Indonesia. Tapi aku belum tahu juga siapa yang mengeluarkan sertifikat kosher ini, lembaga apa yang providing this services, cari tau ahhh…

PS: another link about kosher

http://spektrumku.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/perbedaan-dan-persamaan-halal-islam-dan-kosher-yahudi/