Milk

Shavuot is the only holiday when dairy foods are a traditional item on the menu. There are many reasons for this delicious custom . . .

A rule of thumb cited by the Talmud is: What comes from a kosher animal is kosher; what comes from a non-kosher animal is not kosher. Thus, only milk of kosher mammals is kosher. Additional kashrut provisions pertaining to milk are discussed in ...

It is customary to eat dairy foods on Shavuot. Traditional Shavuot dairy foods include cheesecake and blintzes. Links Why we eat dairy foods on Shavuot Shavuot recipes

Kabbalah explains the mystical reasons for eating dairy on Shavuot.

Believe it or not, there is indeed discussion whether this innocuous-seeming staple of Sunday morning post-prayer brunches is ok for consumption under the kosher dietary laws. Now, there is nothing inherently un-kosher in either lox or cream cheese (as ...

Some of our greatest sages asked the same question; let's see what they have to say: When G‑d spoke to Moses at the burning bush, He informed him that He would redeem the Israelites and bring them to a "good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk ...

“When I was a young man of twenty,” the Baal Shem Tov began his story, “shortly after being accepted in the society of hidden tzaddikim, several of us came to the city of Brody . . .”

It's not everyday that a funeral for an elderly Chassid will stop at a barn on its way to the cemetery.