Melaveh Malka: Difference between revisions

#Melva Malka should be fulfilled as soon after [[Shabbat]] as possible. If one isn’t hungry one may have it later but shouldn’t do an established activity before having Melveh Malka. However, certainly one shouldn’t delay it past [[Chatzot]] of the night. However, if one did delay past [[Chatzot]] one may still fulfill it until [[Olot HaShachar]]. <ref>Mishna Brurah 300:2 and Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 63:5 write that Melveh Malka should be done right after [[Shabbat]] and shouldn’t do a established activity before Melvah Malka. However, they add, at least one should eat [[Melava Malka]] by [[Chatzot]] because the Shaare Teshuva 300:1 quotes the arizal that the holiness of [[shabbat]] only remains until [[chatzot]]. Nonetheless, Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 1 pg 630) adds that if one didn’t do it before [[Chatzot]] one may still fulfill this mitzvah until [[Olot HaShachar]]. One of his proofs is from a story about the Gra in Tosefet Maaseh Rav (39). One time the Gra was sick on Saturday night and didn't eat [[Melava Malka]], when he got somewhat better it was still before Alot Hashachar and so he ate [[Melava Malka]]. Kaf Hachayim 300:14 says it should lechatchila be eaten within four halachic hours of [[shabbat]]. </ref>

#If one extended his [[Seudat Shelishit]] until it got dark, some say that one is exempt from having Melveh Malka, and some argue. <ref>Eliyah Rabba 300:1 writes that he heard that if [[Seudat Shelishit]] until it got dark one is exempt from having Melveh Malka. However, Tehillat David 300, Kaf HaChaim 300:11 disagree with this. </ref>

#There’s no obligation for having Malveh Malka on Motzei [[Yom Tov]].<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 63:4 rules that there's no obligation to eat Melveh Malka on [[Yom Tov]]. See also Sh”t Rivivot Efraim 3:292 who writes that the Chazon Ish would have a Malveh Malka on Motzei [[Yom Tov]]. </ref>