Preparing food in honor of Shabbat
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For Shabbat for all the right reasons
Topic: honoring Shabbat
Question: If it is difficult for me to prepare many different things, what is the minimum that is appropriate for the honor of Shabbat?
Topic: honoring Shabbat
Question: If it is difficult for me to prepare many different things, what is the minimum that is appropriate for the honor of Shabbat?
Answer
Shalom and blessings.
The minimum is to add at least one specially cooked dish for Shabbat.
The halachic authorities write that a particularly poor person, who has no financial ability to cook dishes for Shabbat, should cook a small fish and eat it for Shabbat (even just one “sardine”).
Source
Mishnah Berurah, siman 242, se’if katan 1
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