<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I find the following somewhat strange:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>The usual Seudah Mafsekes is replaced with a regular Seudah Shlishis <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> of Shabbos at which one may eat meat <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">and drink wine </span>and eat any foods one desires...etc. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 552:10, Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchasa 28:77, Igros Moshe 4:112</span></b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">What I find strange is being allowed to drink wine right before the saddest day of our year. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I needn't go into detail what wine can do and the happy effect it can have. I would have thought <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> that wine would have been assur right before Tisha b'Av, even though it is Shabbos.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Any thoughts?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">ri</font></div></body></html>