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by davemel37 4315 days ago
Not really. Many of these questions boil down to specific customs that are observed by different sects of Orthodox Jews. For example, how long to wait between eating meat and eating dairy can either be, 1 hr. 3 hrs., 5 hrs., 5hrs and 31 minutes or 6 hours.

If your other answers aren't consistent with the others, it would be obvious to the moderator. (i.e. you went to a lubavitch school, but wait the sephardik amount of time between meat and dairy.

Sure, some people can probably figure this all out, but the questions are just as much for making the users feel comfortable than it is to keep the one moron who googles this all, out of the forums.