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==Eating on Friday== | ==Eating on Friday== | ||
===Normal meals=== | ===Normal meals=== | ||
# Strict halacha permits one to eat an amount that’s normal for a weekday meal, however, one should refrain from beginning a meal which is normal for a weekday meal from the | # Strict halacha permits one to eat an amount that’s normal for a weekday meal, however, one should refrain from beginning a meal which is normal for a weekday meal from the beginning of the ninth hour ([[Shaot Zmaniot]]) in the day. <ref> The Gemara Pesachim 107b establishes that the mishna which forbids meals on Erev Shabbat or Erev Yom Tov is from a half hour before Mincha Ketana, which is nine and a half hours into the day. Shulchan Aruch O.C. 249:2 writes that halachically it’s permissible to have a meal the whole day because we hold like Rabbi Yose in Pesachim 98b. However, even Rabbi Yose agrees that it is a mitzvah not to establish a meal after the beginning of the ninth hours. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 72:10 agrees.</ref> | ||
# In the winter months when the [[Shaot Zmaniot]] (halachic hours) are short one should refrain from having a meal too close to [[Shabbat]] so that if one has a meal one will still have an appetite going into [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 249:16 </ref> | # In the winter months when the [[Shaot Zmaniot]] (halachic hours) are short one should refrain from having a meal too close to [[Shabbat]] so that if one has a meal one will still have an appetite going into [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 249:16 </ref> | ||