[Avodah] Simchas Yom Tov

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From: Shlomo Pick _picksh at mail.biu.ac.il_ (mailto:picksh at mail.biu.ac.il) 




>>Now I don't understand.  In Vilna and Radin where the  chafetz chayim (rav
Mendel Zach's father-in-law and btw, I was tested in  RIETS in YU by rav
Zachs for he was the bochen during my time) was active,  there were no old
men, or women or za'ar?  And in all of Lithuania where  aruch hashulchan 
was,
there were no elderly, women and children?  Just  bachurei yeshiva? And in
Baghdad, which is much earlier than Lita, there were  no women and children
and elderly either? Likewise in the Taz's community and  the entire list
found in kaf hachayim. I simply don't understand, those  elderly didn't have
all our modern conveniences, all that food, bassar  veyayin vechol tuv, and
those blintzes, and gashmiyut and certainly the  yeshivalite didn't have it,
and perhaps their hunger pains were greater, and  all these gedolei olam say
to wait.  How insensitive to those guests and  those poor people who are
waiting for Kiddush and the  meal.<<




Shlomo  Pick


>>>>>
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].
 
I don't know exactly why the question of the late meal is coming up now,  
anyway.  Doesn't practically everybody end up eating quite a late meal at  
the seder?  Especially in a year like this when it was already  daylight 
savings time at least in the US?  What's the big deal?
 
--Toby Katz
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