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==Hard cheese== | ==Hard cheese== | ||
# Ashkenazim hold that one should wait six hours after eating hard cheese before eating meat. <ref>Teshuvat Maharam Rotenburg cited by Bet Yosef OC 173, Rama YD 89:2. Darkei Teshuva 89:2 quotes the Arizal who wouldn't eat meat for the rest of the day after having eaten hard cheese. Yalkut Yosef YD 89:46 writes that it is permitted according to the strict halacha for Sephardim not to wait to have meat after having hard cheese as long as one washes out one's mouth and washes one's hands.</ref> | # Ashkenazim hold that one should wait six hours after eating hard cheese before eating meat. <ref>Teshuvat Maharam Rotenburg cited by Bet Yosef OC 173, Rama YD 89:2. Taz 89:4 explains that the two reasons for waiting between meat and milk is because of meat getting stuck in your teeth and the taste remaining in your mouth. The only reason that applies to waiting after having hard cheese is because of the lingering taste. Pri Chadash 89:16 argues on the Taz that reason of the food getting stuck in your teeth also applies to cheese. Aruch Hashulchan 89:11 agrees. | ||
* Darkei Teshuva 89:2 quotes the Arizal who wouldn't eat meat for the rest of the day after having eaten hard cheese. Yalkut Yosef YD 89:46 writes that it is permitted according to the strict halacha for Sephardim not to wait to have meat after having hard cheese as long as one washes out one's mouth and washes one's hands.</ref> | |||
## American cheese is not included in this custom. <ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/776128/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Reishit_Bikkurim:_A_Guide_to_Shavuot_Observance Rav Hershel Schachter in a published pamphlet about Hilchot Shavuot] (p. 5) quoting Rav Soloveitchik</ref> | ## American cheese is not included in this custom. <ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/776128/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Reishit_Bikkurim:_A_Guide_to_Shavuot_Observance Rav Hershel Schachter in a published pamphlet about Hilchot Shavuot] (p. 5) quoting Rav Soloveitchik</ref> | ||
# | # Many poskim define hard cheese as anything that was hardened for six months.<ref>Isur Veheter 40:10, Shach 89:15, Taz 89:4, Pri Chadash 89:16, Aruch Hashulchan 89:11, and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 46:11 write that hard cheese is cheese that was aged for 6 months.</ref> | ||
# Accordingly, many poskim hold that mild cheddar, feta, mozzarella, and muenster cheeses are considered soft cheeses, however, medium, sharp and aged cheddar, and Parmesan cheeses are considered hard cheeses. <ref>[http://www.oukosher.org/pdf/daf19-9c.pdf Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer in OU's Daf HaKashrus] Tamuz 5771 p. 55. </ref> However, some hold that any cheese that appears hard requires waiting six hours.<ref>Shevet Halevi 2:35 writes that one should be strict about any hard cheese even if it is aged for less than 6 months. Rav Elyashiv in Kovetz Teshuvot 1:58:2 writes that one should wait six hours after eating melted yellow cheese on pizza since the reason to wait for cheese is the sharp taste and that's true even if it melted.</ref> | |||
==Clearing off the Table== | ==Clearing off the Table== | ||
