#140: Timing of Seudah Shelishit (Part 2)
- Ideally, one should begin Seudah Shelishit before sunset and try to eat a k’zayit or k’beitzah before that time. However, many poskim allow beginning Seudah Shelishit up to nine minutes (R. Moshe Feinstein, as cited in The Radiance of Shabbos, ch.15) or thirteen minutes (see Mishnah Berurah 299:1) after sunset if one did not start beforehand.
- In Israel, where darkness falls faster than in the U.S., some poskim do not allow beginning shelishit after sunset, since it is forbidden to eat anything before reciting havdalah within a half hour prior to nightfall (R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, cited in Shemirat Shabbat K’hilchatah, ch.56). Other poskim are more lenient, even in Israel, if one did not start before sunset (Yalkut Yosef; Piskei Teshuvot 299).
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