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Subject: Re: Kosher Meals -- meat and fish together
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 12:55:11 EST
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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.