3) MEAT AND MILK ARE ONLY PROHIBITED WHEN COOKED TOGETHER

Under Torah law, there is no prohibition to mix meat and milk together when cold. There is not even a Torah prohibition against eating such a mixture. It is only when meat and milk are cooked together, that the mixture becomes forbidden.[1] The reason is because only through the agent of heat, do both the meat and the milk get fully absorbed into each other.

However, under Rabbinical law, one would not be permitted to intentionally mix meat and milk together even when cold, and certainly one would not be permitted to eat the mixture.

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[1] This is derived from the three-time repetition of the phrase; “Do not cook a kid goat in its mother’s milk”, with emphasis on the word ‘cook’ (repeated three times, referring to Cooking, Eating and Deriving Benefit, respectively. Thus, we would only be guilty of Eating and Deriving Benefit (and obviously Cooking), if the mixture was cooked.