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What are some of the ways to fulfill the custom of eating dairy on Shavuot?
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher Recorder of Psak and Policy, breaks down the answer. Do you have kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments!
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What are some of the ways to fulfill the minhag
of eating dairy on Shavuot? Everyone should follow
their personal minhagim. Some people will have a
dairy meal. There's a mitzvah to eat meat Yom Tov,
and there's a minhag to have dairy. Some people
will switch off and they'll do some meals milchig,
some meals fleishig. Some people will make
all the meals fleishig, but they'll have a
kiddush in which they'll have cheesecake and
things like that. Of course, one should make
sure to make a Bracha Achrona and clear away the
table. Make sure that there's no mixing of milk
and meat. The Rama brings that the best way is to
actually split the meal in half. They would wash,
they would have one loaf of bread, they would eat
dairy, then they would clear away the tablecloth.
They would rinse out their mouth. They would have
something to eat, a bite of food in between, and
then they would bring actually a second loaf of
bread. The purpose of the second loaf of bread was
since you had to have one loaf when you started
the meal and a second loaf in the middle of the
meal. So therefore, that becomes a remembrance
for the Shtei Halechem, that was the special
karbon of two loaves of bread that was brought
on Shavuot. Some have the minhag to do like this.
Others are wary of doing it because there's so
many different halachot you have to be careful.
As long as you eat some dairy on Shavuot, then
you are mekayem the minhag of dairy on Shavuot.