[Avodah] Is there a danger to cook fish and cheese together?

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Fri May 8 07:44:24 PDT 2020


On 7/5/20 10:00 am, Prof. L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> **The Rama (Darkei Moshe 87:4) disagrees, and writes that he never saw 
> this stringency observed**

Actually the Rama writes more than that.  He writes that the Beit Yosef 
must have got confused for a moment, and must have been thinking of the 
prohibition on fish and meat. "Nis'chalef lo basar bechalav."  This is 
why most Ashkenazim completely ignore it, because they believe that the 
Beit Yosef himself didn't really hold this way, he just misspoke, or 
rather miswrote, and that if someone had pointed the error out to him he 
would surely have corrected it.

Those who do keep it (most but not all Sefardim, and a small number of 
Ashkenazim) believe that it was not a mistake, that the Beit Yosef 
really did hold this, so they follow it to some extent; the precise 
extent varies from one community to another.

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Zev Sero            Wishing everyone a *healthy* and happy summer
zev at sero.name       Seek Jerusalem's peace; may all who love you prosper



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