Has anyone ask ed the Rabbi if you have to make the Shabbos daytime meal “greater” than the Friday night meal?
can you please share his answer.
And if his answer was the daytime meal, in what way do you make the daytime meal greater than the Friday night meal.
I never knew this was an issue.
In discussing this topic, a friend sent me these sources:
Pesachim 105a, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 271:3. Rashi’s (Gittin 38b) first explanation of the gemara is that it is forbidden to make the two Shabbat meals equal, rather the day meal must be greater than the night one. Maharshal (Yam Shel Shlomo Gittin 4:51) is strict for both languages of Rashi and so it isn’t just a mitzvah to make the meal of the day nicer but a prohibition to do otherwise.
Looking forward to hearing from the group some opinions…
And how do you personally fulfill this Halacha.
Abie Ross