Kashrut
（重定向自Kashruth）
![Kosher meal approved by the Beth din of Johannesburg](/Images/godic/202501/22/Kosher_BethDin4502.jpg")
![Examples of cloven hooves in goats (upper left), pigs (lower left) and cattle (lower right). But horses lack cloven hooves (upper right).](/Images/godic/202501/22/Hoof_montage4502.jpg")
![A 15th-century depiction of shechita](/Images/godic/202501/22/Schect4502.jpg")
![Kosher dairy dishes from the 19th century in the Jewish Museum, Berlin.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Kosher_dishes_P71600764502.JPG")
Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, כַּשְׁרוּת) is the set of Jewish religious dietary laws. Food that may be consumed according to halakha (Jewish law) is termed kosher /ˈkoʊʃər/ in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér (כָּשֵׁר), meaning "fit" (in this context, fit for consumption).