<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gershon Dubin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gershon.dubin@juno.com" target="_blank">gershon.dubin@juno.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><p><<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?>></p>
</div><p>It is said (I forget the source) that participating in a seudas pidyon haben is equivalent to fasting 84 fasts. Hence spreading the opportunity to participate.<br><br></p></blockquote></div>It seems that no one knows what the source of this idea is, although Shem MiShim'on (by R' Shimon Pollack, available on Hebrew Books) Yo"D 29 suggests a rationale for it based on the Zohar.<br>
<br><br>Joshua Meisner<br>