[Avodah] Simchas Yom Tov

[Shlomo Pick]

>>>As tone is so hard to gauge on the internet, I am not sure whether you are saying that the Chofetz Chaim et.al. were insensitive to the needs of others, or whether you are being sarcastic at the expense of Professor Sperber.  I hope it is the latter!  

it certainly is and i thought that was clear....

>>>>Regarding the needs of guests, women, children, the elderly and so on --  who are waiting hungrily for kiddush and the evening meal --  may I suggest that there is no need to fast all day erev Shavuos until after kiddush? If the evening kiddush and se'udah are going to start at 9:30 or 10:00, people should eat a light meal around six o'clock.  The late se'udah at night does not have to be a heavy meal and certainly does not have to be the only meal of the day!  Challah, a main course, a cup of tea and off to the bais medrash to learn [for the menfolk and some of the liberated womenfolk], or time to toddle off to bed [for the kidlets and old folks and the rest of the womenfolk].

see OH, 529:1 and commentaries that a half hour before mincha ketanah one should not be koveiah seuda and this is lechevod yom tov.
i don't know what your mincha ketana is, but a half hour before that.  if a light meal is kevi'at seuda, no. fruits and vegetables certainly yes. anything else like kugel, too much cake, perhaps cylor.

shlomo
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