<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">There is no visitor. That is a Bubba Maysa - perhaps designed for children.<div><br></div><div>The source for the Kos Shel Eliyahu is the Machlokes about whether thare are 4 or 5 Leshonos of Geula... the 5th Lashon being the word V'Heveiso. That would call for a fifth cup of wine. (IIRC The Rambam actually drank a 5th Kos but that is not our current Minhag). We still pour a fifth Kos to symbolize that 5th cup. It is called the Kos Shel Eliyahu because the Machlokes will be settled by Eliyahu upon his arrival pre-Moshiach.<div><br></div><div>HM<br><div><br></div><div><br>Want Emes and Emunah in your life? <br>
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Try this: http://haemtza.blogspot.com/<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/19/13, Prof. Levine <i><llevine@stevens.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Prof. Levine <llevine@stevens.edu><br>Subject: [Avodah] The Cup for the Visitor: What lies behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?<br>To: avodah@aishdas.org<br>Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 7:51 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"> From <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cle2efp" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/cle2efp</a><br>[An article on The Seforim blog by R' Eliezer Brodt. -micha]<br><br>One of the memorable parts of the seder night is during Shefoch Chamascha<br>when we open the door for Eliyahu Hanavi to come inside and drink from<br>the Kos Shel Eliyahu. Children all over the world look carefully to<br>see if there is less wine in the cup after he leaves, while many adults<br>accidently shake the table to make sure that
there is less wine. What<br>are the sources of this custom? When do we pour the kos of wine and what<br>should we do with the leftover wine from the kosdrink it, spill it out,<br>or save it? In this article I hope to trace this custom to its earliest<br>known sources and to discuss some other aspects of the seder night<br>related to this topic.[1] I would like to point out that my intention<br>in this article is not to collect all the sources and reasons on these<br>specific topics but rather to focus on the earliest sources and how<br>these various minhagim came about.[2]<br><br>To begin with, it is worth pointing out that as far as we know today,<br>there is no mention of the concept of Kos Shel Eliyahu in all of<br>the literature that we have from the Geonim and Rishonim. Neither is<br>there mention of it in the Tur, Shulchan Orach, Rema, or other early<br>commentators on the Shulchan Orach.<br><br>See the above URL for
more.<br><br>YL<br>_______________________________________________<br>Avodah mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Avodah@lists.aishdas.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Avodah@lists.aishdas.org">Avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org" target="_blank">http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></td></tr></table>