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  • #607067
    crdle
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    Why is it such a ” minhag” to have milchigs Thu night? I mean making baked ziti, or some form of pasta or whatever milchig dish you like , is not any easier than dumping chicken in the oven. So why do people obsess over it? Same is true for Motzai shabbos pizza, which almost is a halacha 🙂

    #994848
    WolfishMusings
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    FWIW, I’ve never heard of this “minhag.” Nor do I obsess of pizza on Motzei Shabbos (or after Pesach for that matter).

    The Wolf

    #994849
    WIY
    Member

    Thursday night is not milchigs in every house. It isn’t in mine!

    #994850
    Toi
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    If you refer to supper as dinner, im not surprised you cant understand.

    #994851
    Yatzmich
    Member

    Toi:

    Excellent. You took the words right out of my mouth.

    #994852
    Jakbre
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    Milchigs on Thursday? Pizza on motzei Shabbos? I didn’t grow up in a cave and yet I’ve never heard of either.

    #994853
    sof davar
    Member

    by refraining from fleishigs on thursday night, one enhances the kavod shabbos of having meat on Shabbos.

    #994854
    interjection
    Participant

    My parents do it to make the fleishigs friday night ‘more special’.

    #994855
    WolfishMusings
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    by refraining from fleishigs on thursday night, one enhances the kavod shabbos of having meat on Shabbos.

    But, on the other hand, one who does eat meat Thursday night (as I am tonight) does not detract from the kavod of Shabbos.

    The Wolf

    #994856
    GeshmakMan
    Participant

    It’s the same reason that people have Chinese food for Monday lunch!

    #994857
    yaakov doe
    Participant

    What’s the source for the minhag of Chinese food on Monday night?

    #994858
    yaakov doe
    Participant

    The minhag of pizza Thursday night goes back in my neighborhood at least 20 years.

    #994859
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Wolf – thank you for that post!!!! It was positive and upbeat and informative! A real A+ of a post!

    #994860
    SaysMe
    Member

    we dont have set suppers for different days of the week, but i prefer milchigs thursday nites because the next 3 meals i sit down to will be fleishig, and i like milchig better! 🙂

    if i had to make up a reason for pizza it’d be that the mothers (or fathers) spent thursday and friday cooking and baking, and now after everyone cleans up from shabbos, anyone would appreciate a night off from preparing supper.

    #994862
    takahmamash
    Participant

    I never heard of milchigs on Thursday nights. Back in the states my standing Thursday night dinner was always a deli sandwich and a knish – preferably kasha.

    #994863
    Whiteberry
    Member

    The offset the opinion of the tzedukim who held cold foods has to be eaten on shabbos, jewish mothers everywhere instituted the practice of ordering pizza for their children several hours before their husbands returned home from the beis midrash or from work, so that by the time they returned it would be cold. This way they could point to thursday nights cold food and say, see it is not davka shabbos the food is cold, we are not tzedukim.

    #994864
    Chortkov
    Participant

    For us Yeshiva guys, Thursday night is Cholent time, ?? ??? ?????!!!

    #994865
    crdle
    Member

    Toi- many many ppl say DINNER!

    Yekke- i wasn’t referring to Yeshiva guys

    #994866
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    So someone brought cholent tonight to the bais medrash in which I learn at night. So my chavrusa taynas* that cholent on Thursday night takes away

    from the kovod of Shabbos. What does everyone think about that?

    *Which reminds me that I have to fast tomorrow so maybe I shouldn’t have eaten it for a different reason.

    #994867
    WIY
    Member

    DaasYochid

    Halachically its baba meisas. In many yeshivos they serve cholent and kugel on a regular basis and have cholent Thursday nights. If there was a problem it would have been brought up by now. If you want to make up a chumrah kol hakavod.

    #994868
    tzaddiq
    Member

    like many many yeshiva bochurim, i used to eat cholent thursday night too when i was a bochur, until i was told to reserve that specific ma’achol for shabbos day. there should always be a special food, or drink perhaps, that enhances and adds quality to the ‘specialness’ of shabbos. its not JUST our clothes, or the nusach of davening, that makes this day different from all the other days.

    that lesson really resonated for me and, while i can’t say i gave up my thursday night cholent completely, but i do have a special nosh or something i buy specially for shabbos every week.

    #994869
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    WIY, it’s not a halachic issue per se, it is an issue of sensitivity, and I think tzaddiq expressed it well.

    My thinking was that he had a point, but OTOH, it’s not as if it’s served on Tuesday. Having cholent on Thursday night seems to me to be an expression of enthusiasm that Shabbos is coming.

    Anyhow, it was good. And my chavrusa had kugel.

    #994870
    Sam2
    Participant

    Who here was Machmir not to eat meat (or drink wine) last night because it’s a Leil before a Ta’anis?

    #994871
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Not I, obviously. I should probably look into it more.

    #994872
    Sam2
    Participant

    DY: Nah. It’s probably a Chumra that a total of 2 people on earth keep. It is interesting, though.

    #994873
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Sam, and you thought maybe one of them is on the CR? 🙂

    #994874
    Sam2
    Participant

    Well, one of them is. 😉

    #994875
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    The only thing Thursday night brings to mind is flieshigs. Thursday night I usually go to the local heimishe deli and load up on chulent, schnitzel, and eggrolls (?) and after that I go learn where, of course, there is a pot full of chulent for everyone.

    #994876
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Sam, all the more reason to think you wouldn’t get a positive reply. 😉

    #994877
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Onegoal, then why buy cholent at the deli?

    #994878
    oomis
    Participant

    I guess it would be because Shabbos is full of fleishig meals, so it’s just nice to do milchigs the night before. It ain’t Halacha or even minhag. As to Pizza on Motzai Shabbos – what else ya gonna eat? Do you really want to prepare ANOTHER meal?

    PS I usually have Cheerios and milk after Shabbos.

    #994879
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    DY: It’s chicago, you wouldn’t understand.

    #994880
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Something in the water there?

    #994881
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    Something in the deli here.

    #994882
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    can you say, “Romanian salami?”

    #994883
    takahmamash
    Participant

    We don’t have anything special now on Thursday nights, but back in the old days (pre-aliyah) we would have deli sandwiches and salads. They were easy to make, good for eating on paper plates, and kept everyone out of the kitchen so my wife could cook for Shabbat.

    #994884
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Sam, I saw where the ??”?, as quoted by the ?”?, as quoted by the ?”?, says that a baal nefesh starts the fast at night. I also saw that someone who can’t fast should still avoid wine and meat, and it kind of makes sense to apply that to the night before, but do you know of an explicit source for your chumrah?

    #994885
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    My mother held to this minhag, and would never serve fleishigs on Thursday night.

    My husband most decidedly does not hold by this minhag, and enjoys fleishigs at every opportunity.

    #994886
    Sam2
    Participant

    DY: It’s a Rama in Hilchos Niddah. 🙂

    #994887
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Where?

    #994888
    Sam2
    Participant

    DY: I don’t know the Siman offhand. It’s by where he says what to do if one is Boel Ishto Niddah B’shogeg. And then see what the Achronim (I think quoted in the Pischei T’shuvah) say there.

    #994889
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    I will bl”n try to find it.

    #994890
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    ??”? ?’ ???”? ?????? ??????. ??? ???? ?? ???? ?????, ???? ????? ???? ?? ????? ??? ?????, ????”? ???? ???? ???? ?????

    but I’d like to see the Maharsha”l inside.

    #994891
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    I’m sitting here enjoying my cholent and schnitzel. Thats a real thursday night tradition.

    #994892
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    And tomorrow’s not even a ?????!

    #994893
    crdle
    Member

    onegoal- no offense, but Romanian is nothing to write home about. seriously.

    tzaddiq- u can make geilfta fish or chicken soup your special shabbos food, and have cholent on thursday night with no problem.

    #994894
    TheGoq
    Participant

    them is fightin words crdle!!

    #994895
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    You tell him Goq!

    It wasn’t onegoal, it was me.

    #994896
    oomis
    Participant

    I would not purposely eat cholent on Thursday night, based SOLELY on the idea that it is a food that is made especially l’kovod Shabbos. And no, I don’t typically eat gefilte fish during the week, either, though it is not necessarily a “Shabbos” food (but cholent by its nature, is).

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