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    06 Aug KASHRUS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH RABBI MOSHE ELEFANT

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    Beginning
    Rosh Chodesh
    Av until after
    Tisha B’Av
    (the Nine Days) the custom of
    Ashkenazim is not to eat meat
    or drink wine, in remembrance
    of the destruction of the Beis
    Hamikdash. What about a
    food that was cooked with
    meat, or a pareve soup
    that was cooked in a
    fleishig pot? Can they
    be consumed? Also,
    can one eat foods
    that contain red wine
    vinegar?
    The Mishna Berura (551:63)
    writes that the common
    custom is not to eat foods
    that were cooked together

    with meat. For example, one should
    not eat a potato from a fleishig cholent,
    even though it does not contain actual
    meat. Since it is absorbed from the
    meat, we refrain from eating it. He
    adds that one may cook a pareve food
    in a fleishig pot, even if the pot had
    been used to cook meat immediately
    beforehand.
    Rama (OC 551:9) writes that using

    wine vinegar is acceptable during
    the Nine Days. He explains that
    wine vinegar does not promote
    simcha (joy), and was not
    included in the wine restriction.
    Wine “vinegar” refers to wine
    that has fermented to the point
    where one would not drink it
    (MB 551:57).
    May one go swimming
    or canoeing during the
    Nine Days?
    Since bathing and showering
    one’s entire body are prohibited
    during the Nine Days, the same
    restriction applies to swimming
    as well (Aruch HaShulchan OC
    551:35). Rav Moshe Feinstein,
    zt”l prohibited canoeing during
    the Nine Days because the
    unstable canoe might overturn
    and one would fall into the water.