Meat Meal

Parsha Halacha | June 27, 2025

In addition to the dairy meal, one should eat a meat meal on Shavuot day as one does on every Yom Tov.
The best way to accomplish both of these concepts is to first eat a dairy meal (or kiddush), recite the grace after meals, wait a half hour or an hour and then have a meat meal.
The tablecloths should be changed between the two meals, and a new loaf of bread (if one is washing for both meals) should be served.
Some do not wash for the dairy meal but rather eat it as a “Kiddush,” and then wash for the second meal. They should recite the bracha acharonah (concluding blessing) before beginning the meat meal.
It is customary for Ashkenazim to wait six hours after eating hard, aged cheese before consuming meat. This includes Parmesan and Swiss cheese (see footnote).
In some communities it is customary to eat a dairy meal on the night of Shavuot and a meat meal on the day of Shavuot.

In addition to the dairy meal, one should eat a meat meal on Shavuot day as one does on every Yom Tov.
The best way to accomplish both of these concepts is to first eat a dairy meal (or kiddush), recite the grace after meals, wait a half hour or an hour and then have a meat meal.
The tablecloths should be changed between the two meals, and a new loaf of bread (if one is washing for both meals) should be served.
Some do not wash for the dairy meal but rather eat it as a “Kiddush,” and then wash for the second meal. They should recite the bracha acharonah (concluding blessing) before beginning the meat meal.
It is customary for Ashkenazim to wait six hours after eating hard, aged cheese before consuming meat. This includes Parmesan and Swiss cheese (see footnote).
In some communities it is customary to eat a dairy meal on the night of Shavuot and a meat meal on the day of Shavuot.

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