Jewish query

[chanaleh]

(If you understand the intent of this question. it's addressed to you. If you don't, it isn't. :-)

Would it be it bad form to schedule a community Shabbat dinner (for the Tremont St. 20s & 30s) on July 18, just after the 17th of Tammuz (the beginning of the Three Weeks)? Or is that socially acceptable because it's Shabbat anyway? (Our dinners are dairy in any case.)

Comments

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

I think this is the sort of thing you'd want your Rav to sign off on. But after looking in Klein, it would seem that: a) refraining from meat and wine is only during the 9 days of Av, and is superseded by Shabbat; b) the prohibition on occasions seems to only be limited to weddings. I think that in any event, as you said, you're just having a celebration of Shabbat, and that takes precedence over anything else.

Hope this helps!

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

Rabbi G. used to take such joy out of eating as much meat as possible on Shabbat during the 9 days. Having a Shabbat dinner is a necessity. Whether the Shabbat dinner is a community dinner I don't think would make any difference. Even if we were to have a meat dinner it would be okay. So this should be perfectly fine, right?

If you have it then, I would certainly come!

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

Oh. And what sanpaku said.

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

You can schedule it, but to mark our suffering, you have to invite a bunch of nebishes to make it as unenjoyable as possible :)

*poke poke*

[flinx.livejournal.com]

And somehow I imagine that your name just wrote to the top of that list... am I right? ;-)

[queendeb.livejournal.com]

there's no problem
scheduling a community dinner during the three weeks--
i think it's a great idea

as for dairy
that only applies to the 9 days preceding tisha b'av
and
not only does shabbat not count in that scenario
if you make a siyum during the 9 days
you can eat meat at it
(i have a friend
who would make a siyum every night of the 9 days
or as many as he could)