Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 10/28/83; site pyuxdd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!pyuxdd!rib From: rib@pyuxdd.UUCP (RI Block) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Kosher Meals -- meat and fish together Message-ID: <222@pyuxdd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 12:55:11 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxdd.222 Posted: Mon Feb 27 12:55:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 07:39:42 EST References: <1815@cbscc.UUCP> <508@pyuxmm.UUCP>, <981@pegasus.UUCP> <6469@cornell.UUCP> <639@orca.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 26 Regarding the danger of meat and fish eaten together: In "Kaytzad Tzolin" (How do they roast it?), the seventh chapter of Pesachim from the Babylonian Talmud, a discussion in how the aroma of food cooking in one (small) oven enters and affects other foods in the oven digresses and mentions (Pes. 76b) that meat and fish interact to cause bad breath and "another thing". Rashi, on the spot, tells us this "other thing" is Tzaraat, a skin disease generally, but not correctly (orthodox view) identified as Leprosy. This is brought down as accepted law by the Shulchan Arukh (Yore Deah 116:2). The extract (from Steinsalz) is "one does not roast fish and meat together in one oven (and even more so, one does not cook them in a pot together) because of the suspicion of danger, as in the prohibition of the gemara". The matter is further developed in Shulchan Arukh including what is an acceptable separation in eating. Nowadays, we accept that one should eat and drink at least one thing between fish and meat courses (orthodox view). In my house, we separate the courses with a *pleasant* drink and salad. By the way, eating fish at each sabbath meal, has both Talmudic and Cabbalistic origins and is alluded to in several sabbath songs (zemirot). Note: The translations used in this posting are mine. Also, thanks to Rabbi M. Klughaupt who pointed me to the citations.