Having a Meal on Erev Shabbat: Difference between revisions
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# Similarly, a wedding which took place on Friday may be accompanied by a feast. However, it's preferable to push off the feast until [[Shabbat]] or another day. <ref>Mishna Brurah 249:9 </ref> | # Similarly, a wedding which took place on Friday may be accompanied by a feast. However, it's preferable to push off the feast until [[Shabbat]] or another day. <ref>Mishna Brurah 249:9 </ref> | ||
==Engagement Party on Friday== | ==Engagement Party on Friday== | ||
# One should not make a meal for an engagement party on Friday. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 249:2 writes that one should not make a feast even for an engagement which is a seudat mitzvah. However, the | # One should not make a meal for an engagement party with a meal on Friday.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 249:2 writes that one should not make a feast even for an engagement which is a seudat mitzvah. However, the Magen Avraham 249:3 writes that this is only true if the engagement took place on a different day however, if the engagement actually took place on Friday the feast may be held. Mishna Brurah 249:9 agrees. Nonetheless, the Mishna Brurah concludes that the engagements that we perform nowadays are not halachically binding as they were in the times of the gemara and so it's not considered a seudat mitzvah which would permit a feast on Friday.</ref> | ||
# Sephardim are lenient to allow a small meal for an engagement on Friday.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (v. 1 p. 35) cited by Mishna Brurah Tiferet 249:17</ref> | # Sephardim are lenient to allow a small meal for an engagement on Friday.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (v. 1 p. 35) cited by Mishna Brurah Tiferet 249:17</ref> | ||
==Siyum on Friday== | ==Siyum on Friday== | ||
# Ashkenazim hold that it is permitted to do a siyum and the meal on Friday<ref>Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 249:2 s.v. oh)</ref>, while Sephardim hold that the siyum and meal should be postponed by saving a little bit of the gemara until after Shabbat.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (v. 1 p. 36)</ref> | # Ashkenazim hold that it is permitted to do a siyum and the meal on Friday<ref>Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 249:2 s.v. oh)</ref>, while Sephardim hold that the siyum and meal should be postponed by saving a little bit of the gemara until after Shabbat.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (v. 1 p. 36)</ref> |