Q&A: Danger Is Treated More Stringently Than Prohibition
Danger Is Treated More Stringently Than Prohibition
Question
Hello,
I follow the Shulchan Arukh, and my question is:
A. As a Sephardi, do you think I am obligated to refrain from eating fish with milk even when I am not concerned about the danger?
B. I am Yemenite (and as I mentioned, I follow Jewish law according to the Shulchan Arukh, and today according to Rabbi Ovadia). Are Sephardic customs binding on me? I am mainly asking regarding fish and milk, and the Sephardic mourning customs during the Omer and the Three Weeks. That is, does our acceptance of Maran’s rulings relate also to customs that Maran himself practiced?
Thank you
Answer
If you follow the Shulchan Arukh, then do what is written in the Shulchan Arukh. Why are you asking me?
As for the matter itself, to the best of my knowledge the prohibition against eating fish and milk has no source at all. It is a baseless invention. Even the prohibition against meat and fish, which appears in the Talmud, in my opinion there is no need to be stringent about, since today no danger from it is known at all (leprosy, etc.), and the halakhic decisors have already discussed matters of danger at length.
What you accepted upon yourself is something you need to ask yourself, not me. I am against taking such things upon myself.
Discussion on Answer
I don’t eat them separately or together. But even when I did eat them, I didn’t eat them together because of the custom. There is no real explanation for it. In my opinion, one may eat them.
“I don’t eat them separately or together” — I didn’t understand why?
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA
Does the Rabbi eat cooked fish and meat?
If not, why?