[Avodah] Rosh Chodesh Av - A Seudah With Meat?

[Prof. Levine]

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Rosh Chodesh Av - A Seudah With Meat?

There are various Minhagim when to begin not eating meat before Tisha 
B'Av.  Some say we stop eating meat as far back as 17 Tammuz.  Some 
don't even meat on Shabbos during the nine days.  The minhag of 
Ashkenazim is not to eat meat starting from Rosh Chodesh Av.  What 
about  Seudas Rosh Chodesh itself when there is a minhag to eat a 
fleishig seuda?

The Maharil and the Seder HaYom (from the times of the Arizal) both 
say that we do not eat meat even for the Seudas Rosh Chodesh.  The 
reason, says the Seder HaYom is that we eat meat on Rosh Chodesh 
because, as the first day of the new month, it is a day of 
Simcha.  Not so Rosh Chodesh Av which is a month of Puranus, 
troubles.  Also it is the day that Aharon HaKohen was niftar.  This 
is also the opinion of the Arizal in Shaar HaKavanos.

However the Shiyarei Knesess HeGedola writes that the minhag in 
Turkey, at the time, was to eat meat and drink wine during the Rosh 
Chodesh Seudah, even in Av.  This is also the opinion of the 
Chida.  The Toras Chaim says that if it is your minhag to 
consistently eat a celebratory seudah with meat and wine each Rosh 
Chodesh, you should do so on  Rosh Chodesh Av as well.  The Darkei 
Chaim V'Shalom takes this a step further and says you should only eat 
meat if you are noheg like the Talmidei Baal Shem Tov and make a 
public seudah every Rosh Chodesh.  (See Minhag Yisroel Torah 551:6)

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