2) NOT COOKING, EATING OR DERIVING BENEFIT FROM MEAT AND MILK.

The Torah prohibition of mixing milk and meat together, encompasses three basic principles[1]:

1)BISHUL (cooking); We may not cook milk and meat together, even if we don’t eat it.

2)ACHILAH (eating); We may not eat milk and meat together, even if someone else cooked it.

3)HANA’AH (benefit); We may not derive benefit[2] from milk and meat cooked together, even if we didn’t eat it and even if we someone else cooked it.

                                                                          

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[1] Chazal (the Sages) derive these three principles from the Torah’s three-time repetition of the phrase; “Do not cook a goat’s kid in its mother’s milk”.

[2] Example: By selling the cooked composite of milk and meat to a non-Jew who is not bound by the laws of Kashrut, we would be deriving benefit from the prohibited mixture.