<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">>>This is a common minhag --
to always leave a little something on the plate, </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">>> never eat the last
crumb. Is it a chassidishe minhag? I don't know.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">>>grew up with
it. It's based on a pasuk somewhere that I can't quite
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">>>retrieve from my memory
box -- something about thanking Hashem because you have
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satisfied and even have food left over.
[--TK]</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="purple" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: purple; font-family: Arial;">>>
Might that be ve’achalta, vesavata you are thinking
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maybe “savanu vehosarnu kidvar Hashem”?
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<div><font color="#0000ff">I don't think either of those two is quite what I was
trying to remember but there's a clue in that zemer, “savanu vehosarnu kidvar
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<div><font color="#0000ff">"Kidvar Hashem." What dvar Hashem is the song
alluding to?</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>The zemer is alluding to 2 Kings 4:44 <a href="http://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09b04.htm#44">http://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09b04.htm#44</a>, but I think the minhag not to eat the last crumb is based on the principle "ein beracha sheruya al makom reikan". I don't remember the exact reference, but AFAIR the Zohar learns this from the way the lehem hapanim was replaced so that the shulhan was never left empty, and Elisha's question at the beginning of the same chapter "Ma yesh lach babayit?" <br>
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