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==Wedding on Friday==
==Wedding on Friday==
# 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 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>
# 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>
# 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>
==Siyum on Friday==
# Ashkenazim hold that it is permitted to do a siyum and the meal on Friday<ref>Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 249:2 s.v. oh)</ref>, while Sephardim hold that the siyum and meal should be postponed by saving a little bit of the gemara until after Shabbat.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (v. 1 p. 36)</ref>


==Fasting on Friday==
==Fasting on Friday==