Reply To: Milchig Meal on Shavuos

Biur HaGr”a (Y”D 89, 11) cites Zohar (Parshas Mishpatim pg. 125, 1) that everyone should wait between dairy and meat meals “one meal or ONE HOUR”!

The most common pshat of waiting ONE HOUR means literally “one hour”: See Beis Yosef (O.C. 173, s.v. V’yesh machmirin), Shach (Y”D 89, 15), Pri Chadash (Y”D 89, 6), Gr”a (ibid.), Chida (Shiyurei Bracha Y”D 89, 6, s.v. v’ani and Kikar L’Aden 5, Likutim, 8), and Ikrei HaDa”t (Ikrei Dinim Y”D 10, 5).

This is the ACCEPTED halacha according to multiple poskim: Including the Pri Chadash (ibid.), Pri Toar (ibid.), Shulchan HaTahor (173, 2), Shu”t Kol Gadol (64). See also Shiyurei Bracha (ibid. 13) and Shu”t Teshuvos V’Hanhagos (vol. 2, 390) who cite waiting an hour as a proper minhag.

(An exception can be made if eating chicken after dairy…see Pri Chadash, Pri Toar, Ya’avetz (Mor U’Ketziah end 173) and Aruch Hashulchan (Y”D 89, 11) qualify this ruling, that the one hour waiting period does not apply before eating fowl).

It is very dangerous to post KULOS in a public forum, even if that happens to be your minhag, because others may c”v rely on it to wimp out on halacha.

It is not such a big problem to post CHUMRAS, because (1) most people are content with their lvel of observance and don’t wish yo be chored lidvar Hashem; (2) Should they begin to follow the chumra, there is no downside to being kadesh atzmecha b’mutar lach.