The laws of kashrut They require that, in addition to not eating them together, we wait a specific period of time between eating meat and dairy products.
After eating dairy and before eating meat, eat something parve (which contains neither meat nor milk) that doesn't stick to the roof of your mouth. Then, clean your mouth or drink something and wash your hands. In addition, many people have the custom of waiting a certain amount of time, half an hour or an hour. In Chabad, the waiting period is one hour. After eating certain hard cheeses, it is necessary to wait six hours.
After eating meat, we wait six hours before consuming dairy products. Even if only a small amount of food was chewed or swallowed, it is necessary to wait the full six hours.
If you tasted the food but didn't chew or swallow it, you don't need to wait, but you should wash your mouth before eating dairy products.
You cannot eat meat and dairy in the same meal, even if you separate the dishes and wait the required time. You must finish one meal before starting the next.
There are also certain restrictions when it comes to eating meat with fish, and in some communities it is even forbidden to eat fish with milk.
Shalom.BH. Rabbi, could you please explain to me physiologically what would happen to the body if they were mixed? I would appreciate it. Thank you.
B"H
Hi Yael,
The question is valid, but you should ask a nutritionist or a doctor; I'm a rabbi...
In any case, Kashrut is one of the irrational mitzvot. I recommend you read about it. https://www.tuviaserber.com/en-el-monte-sinai/.
As an irrational precept, we do not care about the measurable physical benefit it may have; this is the will of God, the creator of all flesh, who surely knows what is good for human beings and what is not, physically speaking, and also what is good or not for the Jew, spiritually speaking.
For if it were not so, that is, if a mixture of meat and milk were harmful to the body, why did God not forbid it to the Gentiles? Does He not love them? By no means. We do not eat meat and milk because God said so, and we do not understand.
Greetings,