Eating Dairy Foods
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It is customary to eat dairy foods on the first day of Shavuot. There are a number of reasons for this custom; here are a few:
- On the holiday of Shavuot, a two-loaf bread offering was brought in the Temple. To commemorate this, we eat two meals on Shavuot -- first a dairy meal, and then, after a short interruption, we eat the traditional holiday meat-meal.
- With the giving of the Torah the Jews now became obligated to observe the laws of Kosher. As the Torah was given on Shabbat no cattle could be slaughtered nor could utensils be koshered, and thus on that day they ate dairy.
- The Torah is likened to nourishing milk. Also, the Hebrew word for milk is "chalav." When the numerical value of each of the letters in the word chalav are added together - 8, 30, 2 - the total is forty. Forty is the number of days Moses spent on Mount Sinai when receiving the Torah.
Click here for traditional Shavuot dairy recipes
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Indeed, your evidence is only anecdotal. I am happy that you are healthy. On the other hand there have been tens, perhaps hundreds of studies showing the detrimental effects of dairy on our health.
And the detrimental effects are not caused by "non-organic" cows. It is caused by dairy as such, even from the healthiest cows.
Dairy is simply not for humans, it is for little bulls and cows. It is designed to make that little calf to a huge bull in just one year. It is also likely to make anyone who takes them, fat and unhealthy.
The biggest study on that subject is the "China Study", or "China Project". The statistical error in it is virtually ZERO due to the excellent design and a huge size of the population.
There have been huge studies in other countries: Finland (where they traced people from birth to past 20 and found direct correlation between dairy intake and diabetes.) United states and Australia studies of total 100,0000 women shows that dairy INCREASES osteoporosis. Etc, etc...
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Veet Vivarto, I don't doubt that you believe what you are saying is true, but I happen to consume a LOT of dairy and I don't have the same medical problems you point out. I did notice a big improvement in my health when I reduced my meat intake (note: REDUCED, not eliminated). Things to consider giving up include artificial colors and flavorings and things containing excessive caffeine. I sincerely doubt consuming dairy JUST for Shavous would have any long-term health effects. After all, I drink on Purim and on Pesach and nothing bad happens. If I drank that way every day, I'd certainly have some liver trouble, I'm sure. Before you go cautioning people off observing rich traditions and customs, consider the positive effects of eating kosher. Look it up. There's plenty of evidence.
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If you want to not have the colds, flus, allergy problems from milk - drink ORGANIC milk. It does not have the pus, hormones, or added antibiotics that regular cows are pumped full of. Organic dairy herds are cared for better than non-organic. As for lactose intolerance, there IS lactose-free organic milk, I'm severely lactose intolerant and I've been drinking organic lactose-free milk for several years without problems. I am also less sick since I've switched to organic.
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