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How do we reconcile the meal Abraham prepared? Didn't it consist of both meat and dairy?

by Rabbi Simcha Bart

  

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Good question. Rashi - foremost Torah commentator - addresses this as well. Here is what he says: "Each one that he prepared, he took and brought before them."1

In other words, the butter and milk which was ready first - was brought out first. Only afterwards was the meat course (which took much longer to prepare) brought to them.

Footnotes

  • 1. Genesis 18:8, and Rashi on this verse

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Torah
Torah is G–d’s teaching to man. In general terms, we refer to the Five Books of Moses as “The Torah.” But in truth, all Jewish beliefs and laws are part of the Torah.
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.