between eating meat and dairy do jews have to wait for a certain period?

Question

or can they be eaten straight after each other

if there is a waiting period how long is it between meat and dairy

Answer 1

You do not have to wait between eating dairy and then meat (just wash your mouth a bit by drinking something) but you do have to wait between eating meat and dairy. The reason for this is that protein isn't digested until it gets to the stomach and also because meat usually has fibers that can get stuck in your teeth without you noticing until they are washed down--and eating dairy after eating meat would allow the dairy to touch the meat, hence mixing meat and dairy. How long someone waits depends on how they were raised. As earlier stated, Dutch Jews will wait about an hour to an hour and a half, Sephardis generally wait 3 hours, Ashkenazis generally wait 6 hours.

Answer 2

After eating dairy, it is generally accepted that it is unnecessary to wiat more than a few minutes (lenient opinions call for the person to rinse their mouth out before eating meat- but thats it). Stricter opinions call for an hour to two hours if their is hard yellow cheese as part of the dairy.

After eating meat- the law is to wait between the two- ut the time period is dependent on your community. Other answers have given the most common times- from 1 hour to six hours. The time is based on the typical times between meals. With the change in modern eating habits, some Ashkenazi communities are moving to three hours

Answer 3

Most Jews do not have a waiting period between dairy and meat, but their is a period between meat and dairy.

The time of the period depends on the persons custom. Some Dutch Jews wait only an hour. German Jews as well as some Sephardi Jews wait three hours. Eastern European Jews and other Sephardim wait around six.

Answer 4

If one eats dairy first, some government say that one and all you ought to do is rinse your mouth out with water and consume something pareve (neither meat nor milk, like fruit) till now eating a meat meal, except the dairy replaced into interior the form of problematic cheeses like Parmesan, wherein case the separation is longer. For the opposite, the waiting era varies from 3 to 6 hours. 2 reasons are given. Maimonides writes that meat is stringy and receives caught between the teeth; after six hours any meat residue has been rendered distasteful and is subsequently no longer a rely of situation. in accordance to others, meat's stinky style and scent, it incredibly is felt long after the beef has been eaten, is the reason of the needed wait. Neither of those 2 reasons shop on with to dairy ingredients, and subsequently no prolonged wait is needed after eating dairy till now eating meat. elderly cheese, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, whilst no longer stringy, does have a stinky style. subsequently, simply by 2nd reasoning stated above, after eating such cheese it incredibly is had to attend six hours till now eating meat. The consensus between the latter government is that cheese which has gone with the aid of a proper fermenting technique is adequately good to warrant a six hour harm till now meat is eaten.

Answer 5

This is a rabbinic question, not one that comes from the Bible. It is what is called a minchag, or custom, to be decided by the rabbis. One of the previous writers answered the question; for some reason Jews from the Netherlands usually wait an hour (because they are a big dairy producing area?) but my Chabad rabbi would wait 6 hours. Of course that begs the question of what kind of meat one might eat and what kind of cheese one might eat............

Answer 6

According to rabbinical Judaism there is a waiting period. I believe this is from 72 minutes to six hours. In practice though they just don't eat dairy and meat at the same meal.

I've even been to some congregations where they got a wee bit irate at me for daring to bring a tuna casserole for the oneg even though I assured them I used no fish milk in the recipe. Okay it was defiant and mean of me but I really do not like traditions of men that make no sense and leaders that impose such nonsense on their congregations need to be confronted.

It is a self imposed law to make sure they don't break this commandment.

Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

This is not what the scripture is driving at. This is one of the Law's (man made law based on scripture but a legalistic twisting of scripture) that both Yahshua and Paul rails against that are not binding to Christians.

Answer 7

Good question , I wasn't aware of this practice, now I am. I have to think that this all came about because God said not to boil a calfs meat in it's own mothers milk. Which would be the ultimate insult and disrespect.

Answer 8

depending on what their customs are but usually the accepted two wait times are either 6 full hours or into the 6th hour (5 hours and 1 minute)

Answer 9

A few hours, usually.