Meat During the Nine Days

Meat During the Nine Days Day: Thursday Date: July 16, 2015 Parshat: Matot/Mas'ei Yalkut Yosef: 551 Our custom is to refrain from eating chicken or meat from after Rosh Hodesh Av through the tenth of Av. At a seudat mitzvah however, such as a Brit, or a Sheva Berachot, it is permitted as long as one came to be part of the celebration and not just to eat meat. Children may be given chicken and meat as long as they are still young and do not yet understand the concepts. Our custom is to also not eat food that was cooked with meat even if there are no pieces of meat in the food. However, food cooked in a meat pot may be eaten if there was no meat cooked with the food. It is permissible on Erev Shabbat to taste the Shabbat food even if that includes meat, since tasting the Shabbat food is part of the mitzvah of honoring Shabbat. The DSH is brought to you in memory of Rabbi Mordechai ben Daniel. Please visit us online at sephardichalacha.org