In this week's Parsha we read about the various kosher and non-kosher animals which Jewish People are permitted to eat. The Torah specifies that Kosher animals must chew their cud and have split hooves, in order to be permitted. The Torah delineates only four animals which have one of these two signs. All other animals have either both of the signs or neither of the signs. This extraordinary set of laws is used by many to prove the Divine Origin of the Torah.

If a man were to write a set of laws and try to pass it off as being Divine, they may decide that animals need to have two signs to be eaten, but they would never specify the only animals in existence that have only one sign. If they did then the claims of Divine origin could easily be refuted as soon as another animal is found that has one of the two signs. Only if the Torah was in fact with Divine Origin would the "writer" be willing to write and claim the exact animals that are and will ever be in existence that have one of the two signs. Throughout the thousands of years since the Torah was given science has discovered hundreds if not thousands of new species of animals and living creatures which were previously unknown to man but none of them have only one of the signs except for the four specifically mentioned in the Torah. This is a very strong proof that the One who Created the world is in fact the same One who commanded and gave us the Torah.

Shabbat Shalom,

Heath