Kavod and Oneg Shabbat: Difference between revisions

# Some hold that the primary obligation of Kavod and Oneg [[Shabbat]] is Deoritta. Wearing nice clothes is Kavod [[Shabbat]] and eating special foods is Oneg [[Shabbat]]. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 242:1 </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 </ref>

# It’s Kavod [[Shabbat]] to do one’s laundry from Thursday prior to [[Shabbat]] so that one’s clothes are clean and fresh for [[Shabbat]]. <Ref> S”A 242:1, Mishna Brurah 242:5 </ref> Laundry should be done before Friday so that one has time to prepare for [[Shabbat]]. <Ref> S”A 242:1 writes that laundry should be done on Thursday. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (42 note 13) writes in name of Rav Shlomo Zalman that one may do laundry earlier in the week. Additionally, Mishna Brurah 242:5 explains that it should be done on Friday so that one has time to prepare for [[Shabbat]]. However, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (42 note 13) suggests that perhaps nowadays that it’s easy and quick to do laundry it’s permitted to do it on Friday. So holds Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 1 pg 13), and Piskei Teshuvot 242:3 writes that such is the Minhag. However, Rav Menashe Klein (author of Mishneh Halachot) in back of Piskei Teshuvot vol 3 writes that nowadays one should still do it on Thursday and not Friday. </ref>

# There are two expressions of how to observe [[Shabbat]] in the Torah, שמור and זכור which the prophets explained as a mitzvah of כבוד (respect) and עונג (enjoyment) of [[Shabbat]]. <ref> This is the language of the Rambam ([[Shabbat]] 30:1) which implies that the mitzvah of Oneg is Derabbanan. The Mishna Brurah 242:1 writes that the Ramban holds that this mitzvah is Deoritta while the Sefer HaChinuch holds that it's Deoritta. See Sh"t Yabea Omer 4:26(2) who proves that there is no mitzvah of Simcha by [[Shabbat]] like there is by [[Yom Tov]]. </ref>

# What is Oneg? There is a mitzvah to prepare tasty and special food for [[Shabbat]] each one according to their wealth. Eating the three meals of [[Shabbat]], having meat and wine, and sleeping on [[Shabbat]] are all a fulfillment of Oneg [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (Intro to new edition 2:10) based on Rambam ([[Shabbat]] 30:7,9,10)</ref> However, it is improper to get drunk on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Rav Nevinsal in BeYitzchak Yikara on S"A 250:2</ref>

# It is forbidden to fast on [[Shabbat]] unless one enjoys fasting. <ref> S"A 288:1, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (Intro to new edition, chap 2 note 42). Biur Halacha D"H Asur, Sh"T Yabea Omer 4:26 </ref>

# According to some there’s a mitzvah Deoritta 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> Rambam Shemot 20:8 writes that there’s a mitzvah Deoritta in counting every day of the week towards [[Shabbat]]. So rules Chaye Adam ([[Shabbat]] 1:1), Mekor Chaim 271:3, and Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 42:3 </ref>

# Anticipating the arrival of [[Shabbat]] each week is actually a biblical obligation. One should even refer to Friday in connection with [[Shabbat]]. For example, it is better to say “I am going to get a haircut on Erev [[Shabbat]]” instead of “I am going to get a haircut on Friday.” This is consistent with the custom of opening the "Psalm of the Day" each morning in reference to [[Shabbat]]. For example, Sunday’s song begins with: “Today is the first day in the [[Shabbat]] [week].” <ref>[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>

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