Reply To: Dear Popa Bar Abby (Advice Column)

Dear Popa Bar Abby,

Why don’t we have cheesecake on Chanukah?

People often eat things when there is a yetzer hara to eat them. That is why people eat milchigs on shevuos, because you are obligated to eat meat, so they have a yetzer hara to not eat meat.

On chanuka, however, there is no mitzva to eat meat specifically every day, so there is no yetzer hara to eat milchigs.