Brit Milah: Difference between revisions

# It is a proper practice to make a meal on the day of a Brit Milah and it is considered a Seudat Mitzvah. <Ref>Pirkei DRabbi Eliezer ch. 29, Shulchan Aruch YD 265:12, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 163:8. See Gemara [[Shabbat]] 130a</ref>

# The practice is not to invite people to this meal because there is an issue for someone who was invited to a meal of Brit Milah and didn't attend.<Ref>Rav Mordechai Eliyahu's comment on Shulchan Aruch Kitzur 163:8, Bayit HaYehudah vol. 10 pg. 182, see also [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/750891/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Inviting_People_to_a_Bris Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz] </ref>

# Ideally the meal should have meat but one fulfills the minhag even with chicken or fish.<ref>Magen Avraham 249:6 citing the Maharshal requires meat for a brit milah meal. Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot 2:11:3 based on Taamei Haminhagim writes that the meal should have meat initially but if that's not possible it could have chicken or fish. Rabbenu Bechay Beresheet 21:8 writes that the minhag to have a seuda after a Brit Milah is based on the party Avraham made for Yitzchak and the midrash writes that the party was for fact he was able to give Yitzchak a Milah. </ref>

# The meal should be a bread meal.<ref>Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot 2:11:3</ref>

# The minhag is to have a minyan for the seudah of a brit milah.<Ref>Rama Y.D. 265:12, Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot 2:11:2</ref> If one didn't have a minyan the seudah is still valid.<ref>Otzar Habrit 3:17:4 p. 239 writes that even if there wasn’t a minyan present at the seudat brit milah the seuda is still a seuda and the minyan isn’t the halacha but a minhag. Bechorat Habrit 265:66 says ten is enough but it isn't critical. See also Maharam Shik YD 386.</ref>

# If one would otherwise learn Torah one does not need to [[Bitul Torah|mevatel Torah]] in order to go to a seuda of a Brit Milah unless there wouldn't be a [[minyan]] at the seuda.<ref>Yabia Omer YD 4:19 who in turn cites Maharshag 2:125. The Maharshag explains that it is more important to learn Torah than to go to a seudat mitzvah and he quotes that the Maharam Shik told him this as good advice. He qualifies it that if there's a chance that there wouldn't be a minyan without him it is better to go to the seuda than to learn. Yabia Omer asks why indeed should he mevatel Torah in order to make the minyan if that is a mitzvah that isn't critical to have a minyan for the seuda. He answers that since having a minyan is an enhancement of the mitzvah (Rama Y.D. 265:12) we would mevatel Torah to make sure that happens and it is considered as a mitzvah that couldn't be done without you (Moed Katan 9b and Meiri there). Dibrot Eliyahu 8:62 cites and agrees with Yabia Omer.</ref>