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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>R' SZN:</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>seen online---<br></span><br><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Here is a common misunderstanding ... Many frum Jews insist on eating meat at every holiday meal. They do this because the Talmud tells us there can be no happiness without meat and wine, and "happiness" is required on the holiday*. But, those fools who unreflectivly stuff themselves with meat have forgotten that "happiness" is a subjective quality. It can't be prescribed. I can't demand that you enjoy a particular food or drink will make you happy. Everyone is different. Some people don't like meat. Others like fish and meat equally well. The idea that someone who enjoys fish can't use it to fulfill a requirement to be happy is absurd. If it makes him happy, it makes him happy. And the people who will eat a fish meal with great gusto but insist on having a small, undesired piece of meat at the end "just to fulfil the requirement" are missing the point. The obligation isn't to eat meat. The obligation is to be happy. And if eating fish makes you happy, eat fish and make no apologies*<br><span style='color:#1F497D'><SNIP></span></span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>--- are there communities outside of MO who are not makpid to eat fleishig on shavuot?<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Gemara, IIRC, only says that Simchah requires wine, not meat - Rambam adds meat in, and the commentaries ask about that. Even those who say that one is required to eat meat on Yom Tov, might agree (based on yesterday's parashah) that fish is included in meat - see Bamidbar 11:22, and the He'emak Davar there. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As far as the hakpadah to eat meat by every seudah, frankly, I can't remember ever hearing it (and my black-hat credentials are impeccable. :-) )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>KT,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MYG<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>