[Avodah] questions regarding pidyon haben

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> AFAIK the garlic and sugar are not put on the tray, but
>  distributed to the guests at the seudah, for them to take
> home and  eventually incorporate into a meal of their own,
> so that everyone who  eats of that meal will also have a
> part in the seudas mitzvah.   Essentially this is the same
> minhag as that of taking home cake from a  bris, for those
> who weren't able to make it.   [--RZS]

 

_kennethgmiller at juno.com_ (mailto:kennethgmiller at juno.com)   wrote:
>> I have heard of, and seen, people who bring home food from a  bris or 
from a kiddush. But I thought that it was simply a way of helping that  person 
snack, helping them to *feel* like they had attended.

But the way  you explain it, as being a real minhag, confuses me. If I 
would attend a bris  during the Nine Days, and bring some meat home for someone 
who was unable to  attend, surely they would not be allowed to eat it. Is 
there a real value in  bringing food home, beyond the social aspect?  <<

Akiva  Miller
 
 
>>>>>
You should not bring home meat during the Nine  Days.  You should bring 
home cake, especially seven-layer cake and  strawberry shortcake.  In serious 
answer to your question, yes, there is  real value in bringing home food from 
a se'udas mitzvah and that is a  long-standing Jewish minhag.  As I was 
raised, the food you brought home  was preferably mezonos, not sure why -- I 
guess you can be kovea seudah on  mezonos but not on the celery sticks and 
radishes from the crudite'  platter.  You didn't bring home a /lot/ of food, 
wouldn't want to make a  pig of yourself, but you brought home /something/ -- 
like maybe a cookie, a  piece of cake or a roll.  Some aspect of bracha 
attaches to the food from a  bris or pidyon haben, something good that you 
wouldn't want your wife to be  deprived of just because she couldn't make it to 
the simcha.  And also,  that cookie or whatnot that you brought home just for 
the blessing of it -- if  no other blessing, it would surely enhance the 
blessing of sholom bayis in  your home!  Oh and also, it counts as zero points 
on Weight Watchers....you  didn't know that?

 

 


--Toby  Katz
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