.................Really?

As we've already encountered over and over, man's additions to God's word have caused many problems.  He says very plainly:

Deut 4:2  Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of YHVH your God that I give you.

When we add our own commands or take away from God's commands, we are following those additional rules or those deleted rules of the person who said so.  YHVH looks at this as idolatry, the worship of another.  YHVH wants us to have an individual relationship with Him that does not place man or man's interpretations in between that relationship.  Hasn't this been the problem all along?  Didn't the children of Israel, having just experienced the most incredible mercy and grace of YHVH say this:

Exod 32:1  When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "come, make us gods who will go before us.

my paraphrase:  When the people saw that our Savior was so long in coming down to save us, they gathered around and said, "come, give us some rules to follow, even if you made them up yourselves, so that we can all look to each other and place a person in charge of us to tell us what God wants from us instead of going to Him individually ourselves."

Here is what we found in our Jerusalem apartment:

Notice that there are two dishwashers and there are two drawers of utensils, two sinks as well, labeled "dairy" and "meat."  This stems from the verse that says "do not boil a kid in his mother's milk."  The rabbis have made a whole doctrine out of this verse saying it means that meat cannot be eaten with dairy, cannot touch dairy, nor can anything that has touched dairy also touch meat and vice versa.  In fact, the whole country abides by this teaching.  I wrote the first time about the two restaurants in the Waldorf that are separated by the ritual wash station.  Truly, the author of this teaching has had an unprecedented influence over millions of people.Here is a different interpretation from Bryan Tice:The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God; Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk” (Exodus 23:19). 
This injuction forbidding seething a kid in its mother’s milk is the biblical basis for the laws of Kashruth requiring the separation of meat and milk. See how the following Plain Sense interpretation, based on the Contiguity Principle, completely divests this clause of that familiar meaning. At first glance, we have here two unrelated clauses within the same sentence. 
Not so, according to the early commentator Joseph Bekhor Shor. He points out that the word Bashail, regularly translated here as “seethe,” really means “to become ripe or mature.” The phrase then means “Thou shalt not allow a kid to become mature with its mother’s milk,” that is, you should not allow the kid to mature, rather bring it as a sacrifice in the Temple. In this way, both clauses of the sentence are related: Bring your first fruits as an offering and likewise bring your first—young—animals as offerings to God.