We of course make kiddish first before eating:) Likovod Shabbos Kodesh!!!!! On Shabbat we make the bracha over two loaves of challah in rememberance of the double portion of manna which came down on the sixth day, for that day and an extra portion for the shabbat. This we do in order to reflect where our bread truly comes from and to remember that through the observance of Shabbat we will never lack. It is a custom in Israel, on the holy Shabbat, to say while eating, again and again, "I am eating in honor of the Shabbat."(Or ha-Shabbat, p.120) The Mezricher Magid: A child may want something that it enjoys. When a parent deeply loves the child, the parent also has enjoyment when the child has that thing. The child this causes his parent to delight in that thing...This example explains what our Rabbi's mean when they teach that "on the Shabbat it is a good deed to eat and drink." At first thought this may seem difficult to understand, for what enjoyment does the additional soul have from our physical eating and drinking? But (since the body enjoys the physical food, and it is attached to the soul) the soul also has delight from this eating and drinking. (Magid Devarav LeYakkov 39) Email: moshes@letterbox.com
We of course make kiddish first before eating:) Likovod Shabbos Kodesh!!!!!
On Shabbat we make the bracha over two loaves of challah in rememberance of the double portion of manna which came down on the sixth day, for that day and an extra portion for the shabbat. This we do in order to reflect where our bread truly comes from and to remember that through the observance of Shabbat we will never lack.
It is a custom in Israel, on the holy Shabbat, to say while eating, again and again, "I am eating in honor of the Shabbat."(Or ha-Shabbat, p.120)
The Mezricher Magid: A child may want something that it enjoys. When a parent deeply loves the child, the parent also has enjoyment when the child has that thing. The child this causes his parent to delight in that thing...This example explains what our Rabbi's mean when they teach that "on the Shabbat it is a good deed to eat and drink." At first thought this may seem difficult to understand, for what enjoyment does the additional soul have from our physical eating and drinking? But (since the body enjoys the physical food, and it is attached to the soul) the soul also has delight from this eating and drinking. (Magid Devarav LeYakkov 39)
