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Why must I wait after eating meat before eating dairy?

by Rabbi Avraham Gordimer

www.OUKosher.org

  

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Rambam explains that meat tends to get stuck in one’s teeth, and if one consumes dairy shortly after eating meat, the two may mix in his mouth.1 Rashi maintains that since meat leaves fatty residue and an aftertaste, time is needed to allow them to dissipate.2 While these reasons do not apply to poultry, waiting was mandated on all types of meat, be it fowl, livestock or wild beasts.

Republished with permission from www.oukosher.org

Footnotes

  • 1. (Hilchot Ma’achalot Asurot 9:28).
  • 2. (Chullin 105a).

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Rashi
Acronym for Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105). Legendary French scholar who authored the fundemental and widely accepted "Rashi commentary" on the entire Bible and Talmud.
Rambam
Acronym for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, widely known as Maimonides. Born in Spain in 1135, died in Egypt in 1204. Noted philosopher and authority on Jewish law. Also was an accomplished physician and was the personal doctor for members of the Egyptian royalty. Interred in Tiberius, Israel.