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1) When baking a cake to be eaten with milk[or at a dairy meal], a pan which was used within the previous 24 hours for meat should not be used, even if the pan is completely clean.
Likewise, Challah (or any other bread) which is being baked for use at a meat meal, may not be baked in a pan that was used for dairy within the previous 24 hours.
2) If the bread or Challah was already baked in a pan that was used for the opposite food within the past 24 hours, for Ashkenazic Jews it may not be eaten with food of the opposite class.
Jews who follow the Sephardic rulings of the Shulchan Aruch, may eat the cake/Challah with a food of the opposite class.
According to some Poskim, they may do so even L'Chatchilah. (See Shulchan Aruch, Rama, Shach and Taz Yoreh Deah Siman 95:1 and 2. See also Shu"t Yabia Omer Vol. 4 Yoreh Deah Siman 4)
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Reader Submitted Questions of interest on topics related to Halachos we covered, as well as other interesting topic and Answers. Taken from the Q & A pages on the Halacha For Todaywebsite.
Although the answers I give to questions are taken directly from the Sifrei HaPoskim, and aren't my own, they are still for study purposes only, NOT for Psak Halacha.
What were the Simanim that Rachel [Imeinu] gave to Leah that Yaakov [Avinu] told her?
Answer:
The Midrash ( Pesicha to Eicha Rabbasi 24) doesnt say exactly what the simanim were, but it does say that at first when Rachel heard that her father was going to switch her with Leah, she told Yaakov about it and made up a secret code to ensure that Lavan's trick doesnt work.
However, afterwards Rachel decided that she could not allow her sister to suffer the shame of having to get married to Eisav (which was the original plan, one sister for each of the brothers) so she gave Leah the Simanim with Mesiras Nefesh!
Not only that, the Midrash continues, that Rachel actually hid under the bed that night inthe room with Yaakov and Leah,and every time Yaakov spoke, Rachel answered, thus Yaakov further was convinced that he married Rachel as he would have heard Leah's voice and known right away that the sisters were switched.
That Mesiras Nefesh of our Mamme Rachel, according to the Midrash, is the zechus in which we will merit the Geulah Shelaima B'Mheira!
(See the Midrash at length for a fascinating discourse about how the zechus of Moshe Rabbeinu and the Avos were not enough and ONLY the selflessness of Rachel Imeinu was able to turn the tide and establish that the Galus will be temporary and not permamnetnt Chas V'Shalom)
The Da'as Zekeinim from The Ba'alei Tosefos to Bereishis 29:25 says that the 3 Simanim that Yaakov gave her were [ the halachos of] Nidah, Challah and Hadlokas neiros, the 3 primary Mitzvos applicable to women.
Our holy sages, the Chazal tell us
תנא דבי אליהו כל השונה הלכות בכל יום מובטח לו שהוא בן עולם הבא, שנאמר הליכות עולם לו, אל תקרי הליכות אלא הלכות - one who studies [at least two] Halachos daily is assured a portion in Olam Haba - the world to come. (:מגילה כ"ח )
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