#190: The Mitzvah Melaveh Malkah
1. The Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 300:1) says that there is a mitzvah to have a meal after Shabbat is over known as Melaveh Malkah (escorting the queen), to bid farewell to Shabbat that has just departed. According to some sources, eating Melaveh Malkah is also beneficial for sustaining a certain bone that will help to resuscitate our bodies for Techiyat Hameitim (Resurrection of the Dead).
2. Ideally, one should eat bread and cooked dishes for Melaveh Malkah, but one can also eat other grain foods or even fruit if one is full (Mishnah Berurah 300:1). Whatever one eats, one fulfills the mitzvah when eating a k'zayit (27 cc) of food (Shulchan Aruch, O.C. 300:1). In cases of need, one may also have just a hot cup of tea or coffee (Shemirat Shabbat K'hilchatah 63:8).
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Dedicated by Fran Broder as a zechus for the hostages to be released safely to their families and may everlasting peace come to Eretz Yisrael in the merit of learning Hilchos Shabbos.
