There is a custom to wait up to six hours after eating meat before eating dairy. If one drank a glass of milk, he need only rinse out his mouth before partaking of meat. Dairy foods do not leave a fatty residue in the throat and palate.
There is a custom to wait up to six hours after eating meat before eating dairy. If one drank a glass of milk, he need only rinse out his mouth before partaking of meat. Dairy foods do not leave a fatty residue in the throat and palate.
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There is a custom to wait up to six hours after eating meat before eating dairy. If one drank a glass of milk, he need only rinse out his mouth before partaking of meat. Dairy foods do not leave a fatty residue in the throat and palate.
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in the sixth hour (of the day). The Talmud (Yoma 74b) states that blind There is a custom to eat dairy foods on people, since they can't see their food, Shavuot. Before the giving of the Torah, the eat without becoming satisfied. Jews were permitted to eat non-kosher meat. Therefore, Abaye said, one should only After the giving of the Torah (on Shavuot), this eat a meal in daylight. In a perfect day, became forbidden. All their dishes became the sun rises at 6 AM and sets at 6 PM. prohibited, and they could only eat dairy foods. Mar Ukba, who was a talmid chacham, There is a custom to wait up to six hours after ate his first meal at noon and in order to eating meat before partaking of dairy. The be satisfied, ate his second meal at 6 custom is different regarding meat following PM while it was still light. This is the dairy. If one drank a glass of milk, he need only reason for the custom to wait six hours rinse out his mouth before partaking of meat between meat and milk. Not all days, (many recite a bracha acharona and wait one however, contain twelve hours of half hour in between). One who ate cheese daylight. In the winter, many countries must additionally wash his hands and eat solid have only nine hours of daylight. This is food to clean his mouth before eating meat. the case in Babylonia where Mar Ukba Why do many people wait up to six hours lived. Therefore, when daylight began at between meat and milk, but eat meat very soon 7 AM, Mar Ukba ate his first meal at 1 after having milk? If I have a steak, I have to PM (sixth hour). The second meal must wait up to six hours before drinking a glass of have been eaten at 4 PM. That was when milk. But if I have a glass of milk, I can have a it got dark, and Mar Ukba would have to steak at most half an hour later. Why? We may have eaten his meal before night in also ask why some people wait six hours accordance with Abaye's statement. We between meat and milk, while others wait three see that there were times when Mar hours and some people only one hour? Ukba ate dairy after meat after waiting only three hours. This is the source for Common misconception associates the the German Jewish custom to wait only proscribed 6-hour interval to the time required to three hours. digest the meat eaten. This is not the accepted rationale. Rashi explains that meat leaves a Dutch and Scandinavian Jews follow the fatty residue in the throat and palate, and custom brought by Rama (Y.D., 89:1) to Rambam maintains that particles of meat may wait one hour and say a bracha remain lodged between the teeth. Once six acharona. This is because there are hours have passed, the fatty residue has Rishonim who maintain the essential dissolved and the meat particles are sufficiently point is not to eat meat and dairy in the decomposed by the saliva. Dairy foods do not same meal. leave a fatty residue in the throat and palate, nor do they remain lodged between the teeth. Sorry, you are not allowed to switch to Thus one need not wait after dairy foods the the more lenient custom. People who are longer period of time required after meat foods. ill, nursing women, infants and small children may modify their custom on the The Talmud (Chullin 105a) relates that Mar advice of a Rabbi. Ask our Rabbi if you Ukba waited from one meal to another before have any questions. eating dairy after meat. In those days, people only ate two meals a day. (Shabbat 10a) The Talmud .....…And Now You explains that a talmid chacham ate his first meal Know