Eating Dairy on Shavuos: Are Given ‘Reasons’ the Ultimate Cause or Ex-Post-Facto Rationalizations?

I suggest reading “Blessed Are the Cheesemakers: In Search of Ancient Roots of Dairy on Shavuot By: ATON HOLZER” in Hakirah.

(I only skimmed; it gave me goosebumps.)

Note: reminds me of the academics who say the custom of staying up all night on Shavuos spread only after the spread of coffee[*]…

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[*] Elliott Horowitz in AJS Review in 1989, “Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry“, published in AJS Review 14:1 (Spring 1989), pp. 17–46. [according to AI]