EXOD891 A great rabbi of a generation or two ago interpreted Scripture's injunction, "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk," [this verse, Exodus 34:26, Deuteronomy 14:21] to refer to a child.… And he explained: If you allow a child to nestle indefinitely in his mother's arms, over-protected and over-indulged, fearing to subject him to the demands and disciplines of Torah, you "boil him in his mother's milk"; he is "cooked," finished, done for! Hence Scripture states three times, Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk, to imply, apart from the literal meaning, this warning in metaphor.