re: #147 Buck

So you say.

Of course I say it. That’s tautology. You still don’t actually know the origin of this commandment, and neither do scholars. There are at least 4 hypotheses/interpretations regarding these verses: compassion; possible Canaanite ritual involving boiling kid in milk (thus forbidden because of idolatry); it’s not boiling in milk but cooking in fat (and thus prohibition of killing the mother together with the kid); it’s not boiling in milk, but boiling of a suckling kid (prohibition of using an “early” kid for food). None of these are proven.

You’re ignorant of this, of course.