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size=2>From: Shlomo Pick <A title=mailto:picksh@mail.biu.ac.il
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size=2>>>Now I don't understand. In Vilna and Radin where the
chafetz chayim (rav<BR>Mendel Zach's father-in-law and btw, I was tested in
RIETS in YU by rav<BR>Zachs for he was the bochen during my time) was active,
there were no old<BR>men, or women or za'ar? And in all of Lithuania where
aruch hashulchan was,<BR>there were no elderly, women and children? Just
bachurei yeshiva? And in<BR>Baghdad, which is much earlier than Lita, there were
no women and children<BR>and elderly either? Likewise in the Taz's community and
the entire list<BR>found in kaf hachayim. I simply don't understand, those
elderly didn't have<BR>all our modern conveniences, all that food, bassar
veyayin vechol tuv, and<BR>those blintzes, and gashmiyut and certainly the
yeshivalite didn't have it,<BR>and perhaps their hunger pains were greater, and
all these gedolei olam say<BR>to wait. How insensitive to those guests and
those poor people who are<BR>waiting for Kiddush and the
meal.<<<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Shlomo
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size=2>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?</FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial
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<DIV>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].</DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>--Toby Katz</DIV>
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