This is a group of foods given to Israel in order to set her apart from the nations. This list doesn't include rabbinical hedges and additions. One of the primary differences between Torah or Biblically Kosher foods and rabbinically kosher (Kashrut) foods is the issue of the separation of meat and dairy. Torah kosher observant Messianic Jews don't follow this additional teaching which is based on a misinterpretation of the instruction not to boil a baby goat in it's mother's milk (Shemot/Exodus 23:19; 34:26 & Devarim/Deuteronomy 14:21). The Torah is the written Ketvi--Word--of G-d and is therefore the source of dietary direction.