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=== Minimum Food Requirements for Shabbat === | === Minimum Food Requirements for Shabbat === | ||
# Having special food for the [[Shabbat]] meals for Kavod [[Shabbat]] shouldn’t be less than 2 cooked dishes. Additionally, for Kavod [[Shabbat]] one should try to have fish unless one hates it or doesn’t digest it well.<ref> Mishna Brurah 242:2. Yalkut Yosef 242:3 writes that one should try to have fish at all three meals or at least at the first and third unless he doesn't like fish in which case he wouldn't have to eat fish at all. </ref> | # Having special food for the [[Shabbat]] meals for Kavod [[Shabbat]] shouldn’t be less than 2 cooked dishes. Additionally, for Kavod [[Shabbat]] one should try to have fish unless one hates it or doesn’t digest it well.<ref> Mishna Brurah 242:2. Yalkut Yosef 242:3 writes that one should try to have fish at all three meals or at least at the first and third unless he doesn't like fish in which case he wouldn't have to eat fish at all. </ref> | ||
# Even someone who doesn’t have a lot of money should make an extra effort to fulfill Kavod [[Shabbat]] and have something special even it is just small fish.<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:1 explains that this applies even to someone who only has money for 3 meals on [[Shabbat]] and for just a little bit more. </ref> Such a person should save up money or food from the rest of the days of the week so that he can have something special for [[Shabbat]].<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:1, Yalkut Yosef | # Even someone who doesn’t have a lot of money should make an extra effort to fulfill Kavod [[Shabbat]] and have something special even it is just small fish.<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:1 explains that this applies even to someone who only has money for 3 meals on [[Shabbat]] and for just a little bit more. </ref> Such a person should save up money or food from the rest of the days of the week so that he can have something special for [[Shabbat]].<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:1, Yalkut Yosef 242:1 </ref> | ||
# Only someone who is so poor who really has very little (only 2 meals to eat on [[Shabbat]]), and is unable to borrow from others, for him it’s better to have [[Shabbat]] without anything special in order not to rely on others for money.<ref> S”A 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:1 explains that it only applies to someone who is so poor that he doesn’t have 2 meals for [[Shabbat]] and Mishna Brurah 242:3 adds that this is only someone who can’t borrow money. </ref> | # Only someone who is so poor who really has very little (only 2 meals to eat on [[Shabbat]]), and is unable to borrow from others, for him it’s better to have [[Shabbat]] without anything special in order not to rely on others for money.<ref> S”A 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:1 explains that it only applies to someone who is so poor that he doesn’t have 2 meals for [[Shabbat]] and Mishna Brurah 242:3 adds that this is only someone who can’t borrow money. </ref> | ||
# However, the above is about someone who has enough money that he doesn’t need to take [[Tzedaka]], however, someone who needs to take [[Tzedaka]], he should get the appropriate amount to respect [[Shabbat]] properly.<ref> Mishna Brurah 242:1, Yalkut Yosef 242:2 </ref> | # However, the above is about someone who has enough money that he doesn’t need to take [[Tzedaka]], however, someone who needs to take [[Tzedaka]], he should get the appropriate amount to respect [[Shabbat]] properly.<ref> Mishna Brurah 242:1, Yalkut Yosef 242:2 </ref> | ||
=== Spending on Shabbat === | |||
# One should note that the Rabbis tell us that what one spends on Shabbat is fixed from the beginning of the year and if one spends more, Hashem will repay him.<ref>Beitzah 16a, Tur 242:1</ref> This promise only applies if his intentions are purely to honor Shabbat and for him own pleasure.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 250:4, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky (Piskei Halachot Shabbat v. 1 p. 10)</ref> | |||
# A person should spend on honoring and enjoying Shabbat and not be cheap when spending on Shabbat because of the concern about his future finances. However, this is only within a person's budget. Spending beyond one's budget is ill advised and not included in this recommendation of Chazal.<ref>Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky (Piskei Halachot Shabbat v. 1 p. 11)</ref> | |||
==Zechirat Shabbat (Remembering Shabbat)== | ==Zechirat Shabbat (Remembering Shabbat)== | ||
# According to some rishonim, there is a mitzvah from the Torah to remember [[Shabbat]] every day of the week. The minhag is to fulfill this requirement by counting the day of the week before Shir Shel Yom.<ref> Ramban Shemot 20:8 writes that there’s a mitzvah Deoritta in counting every day of the week towards [[Shabbat]]. This is also the opinion of Chaye Adam ([[Shabbat]] 1:1), Mekor Chaim 271:3, and Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 42:3 </ref> | # According to some rishonim, there is a mitzvah from the Torah to remember [[Shabbat]] every day of the week. The minhag is to fulfill this requirement by counting the day of the week before Shir Shel Yom.<ref> Ramban Shemot 20:8 writes that there’s a mitzvah Deoritta in counting every day of the week towards [[Shabbat]]. This is also the opinion of Chaye Adam ([[Shabbat]] 1:1), Mekor Chaim 271:3, and Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 42:3 </ref> | ||
