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Yeshivish glossary term

basar b'chalav

בשר בחלב

Meaning

  • a prohibited meat-with-milk combination
  • laws governing specified meat-with-dairy mixtures

Alternate spellings

basar bechalav, basar vchalav

Usage and context

A central category of kashrus law concerning cooking, eating, and benefiting from specified combinations of meat and milk.

Category
kashrus - meat and dairy
Language origin
Hebrew

Example in Yeshivish

That combination is a basar b'chalav issue.

Plain-English example

That combination raises the prohibition of mixing meat and milk.