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.