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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 | # 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 Mishna Brurah 249:9 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. 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> | |||
==Fasting on Friday== | ==Fasting on Friday== | ||
# There have even been individuals who would fast each and every Friday in order to ensure that they would have an appetite for the [[Shabbat]] meal. <ref>Yerushalmi Ta'anit 2:12; Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 249:3, [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin)</ref> While such a practice is simply not possible for the masses, it is recommended, however, that one not eat an actual meal (but rather a light meal or a snack) on Friday, especially during the winter months when [[Shabbat]] arrives early. <ref>Aruch HaShulchan 249:6, [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin) </ref> | # There have even been individuals who would fast each and every Friday in order to ensure that they would have an appetite for the [[Shabbat]] meal. <ref>Yerushalmi Ta'anit 2:12; Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 249:3, [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin)</ref> While such a practice is simply not possible for the masses, it is recommended, however, that one not eat an actual meal (but rather a light meal or a snack) on Friday, especially during the winter months when [[Shabbat]] arrives early. <ref>Aruch HaShulchan 249:6, [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin) </ref> | ||
