A Jewish boy comes to his father and asks, ‘Dad, why shouldn’t we eat pork?’ The father thoughtfully strokes his long curly beard and answers, ‘Well, Yankele, that’s how the world works. You are still young and you don’t yet understand, but if we eat pork, God will punish us and we will come to a bad end. It isn’t my idea. It’s not even the rabbi’s idea. If the rabbi had created the world, maybe he would have created a world in which pork was perfectly kosher. But the rabbi didn’t create the world – God did. And God said, I don’t know why, that we shouldn’t eat pork. So we shouldn’t. Capeesh?’
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