Changes

The prohibition against sorting originally applied to removing pebbles and other debris from grain by hand, but it's now understood as a general rule against separating unwanted elements form the wanted ones. It's perfectly fine to separate the wanted elements from the unwanted ones, though. For example, if you don't care for raisins, then you're allowed to eat all the nuts from trail mix and leave the raisins, but you're not allowed to remove the raisins first, so that only nuts remain in the mix. The same prohibition means you can't remove bones from the fish on Sabbath. This is where the famous Jewish dish known as ''gefilte fish'', or stuffed fish, comes from. At first, the idea was to carefully take off the skin from a fish, remove the larger bones, then finely grind the flesh together with the smaller bones, along with some onion and soaked hallah bread, add an egg, form little balls of the mixture and cook them in boiling vegetable stock seasoned liberally with sugar, salt and pepper. In the end, the filling would be stuffed back into the skin, sewn up , cooked and cookedsometimes also set in aspic. This way, you could have a boneless fish on your Sabbath table. Nowadays, the last step of the recipe is usually omitted and gefilte fish is served as just the filling, cut into slices and decorated with veggies or eggs.