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size=2>From: Zev Sero <A
href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</A><BR><BR>>>There's no mitzvah
of simcha on Shabbos. There's only oneg, and it<BR>seems obvious that that
depends entirely on ones subjective tastes,<BR>including transient moods.
If one happens right now to be in the mood<BR>for mac-and-cheese, I can't see
why that wouldn't be a complete<BR>fulfilment of mitzvas
oneg.<<<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Zev
Sero
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size=2>>>>>><BR>The halachic question of heating mac-n-cheese on
Shabbos I leave to others. If you make kiddush when you get home from shul
and have a cup of coffee, and if you want mac-n-cheese with your coffee instead
of a Danish, that's your preference and your oneg. (Incomprehensible
preference to me but never mind.)</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>However I want to make a different point. There is an issue of
kovod Shabbos. Unless you are a vegetarian and /never/ eat fleishigs, it
shows a lack of kovod Shabbos to eat milchigs for Shabbos lunch. /Maybe/
you could get away with something very chashuv -- salmon and brie? -- but really
it should be basar vedagim vechol mat'amim. I say this as a person who
prefers milchigs and comes from a milchig kind of family. But never would
we have had a milchig meal on Shabbos (well, sholosh seudos OK). It
would have been considered distinctly not-Shabbosdig, like wearing a
T-shirt and denim. We could easily go a whole week without eating
fleishigs, but Shabbos meals must be fleishig. </FONT></DIV>
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size=2>We were once guests of people who served milchigs for a yom tov lunch
(not Shavuos) -- much to our surprise. I would have been much too shy to
say anything, but my husband asked the hostess if she had a piece of cold
chicken in the fridge or something else fleishig he could eat.</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>Ever since then when we get invited out for a meal, my
husband always tells me to make sure they're serving fleishigs.</DIV>
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