Egg Matzah on the Shabbos Before Pesach - Continued

Q. In the last Halacha Yomis we wrote that during a weekday, Hamotzi is recited on two slices of egg matzah eaten together with a full meal. What is the halacha on Shabbos?

A. Rav Moshe Feinstein writes in the Igeros Moshe (OC 1:155) that if one eats egg matzah for his Shabbos meal, he is required to wash and bentch, even if the entire meal consists only of a matzah the size of a k’beitza (the volume of an egg), which is the minimal shiur for a seudas Shabbos (see Mishnah Berurah 291:20). Since there is an obligation to eat three seudos on Shabbos, any time one sits down with the intention to eat a Shabbos meal, the seuda is automatically considered important, kevias seuda is established and Hamotzi is recited.

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