Now I’ll explain that. ‘What’s scorned’ means whatever Hashem scorns – He tells us in the Torah, “I scorn this. I don’t like it,” – so this person has learned to think in the ways of Hashem and he trained himself to also despise it.
Let’s say treifeh food; seafood. So when a person begins to understand kashrus in the sense that Hakadosh Baruch Hu portrays it in the Torah – that the Jewish body is a sanctuary – he begins to feel that it’s a profaning, a sacrilege, to allow something into his mouth that’s not kosher. Besides for the sin, the Gehenom of the Next World, when a man realizes the great principle that he is a sanctuary, it becomes much more clear to him. ı∆ ̃∆ׁ ̆ם∆כָל ‡ּהו – It should be disgusting to you (Vayikra 11:12,20,23). It’s nauseating. It’s out of the question to introduce a dead sheretz into a holy body.
Now those who didn’t learn Torah so they pass by a seafood store and see snails in the window: “Well, we don’t eat snails. We Jews don’t eat that.” That’s all. But he has no objection to snails. Sometimes he’s a lamdan: “It says in the Gemara (Rashi Vayikra 20:26) that you should say, ‘I like to eat snails only I’m refraining because of the Torah.’” But he’s not understanding correctly. He should say, “I would like to eat snails but I learned from the Chumash that snails are disgusting.” That’s how you think along with Hashem.
