#126: Reciting Hamotzi and Distributing the Challah on Shabbat (Part 8)
- We mentioned in the previous post that all of those at the Shabbat table must either listen to Hamotzi from the head of the household and partake of that person’s lechem mishneh or have lechem mishneh on one’s plate (and either recite Hamotzi themselves or listen to the berachah from the host). If one does not wish to eat from the challah of the one reciting Hamotzi (e.g., one eats only gluten free foods), the best thing to do is ask that individual to use a challah one would eat from as the second of the lechem mishneh and eat some of it (see also Shulchan Shlomo 274:4 for a different suggestion offered by R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach).
- A minority opinion disagrees with some of what we have learned, maintaining that others around the table may listen to the one reciting Hamotzi with lechem mishneh and still eat from one’s own challah, even if one did not have lechem mishneh on one’s plate. One may rely on this opinion in the case above where one does not wish to eat from the lechem mishneh of the one reciting Hamotzi (Piskei Teshuvot 274:6, based on Eishel Avraham and R. Chaim Soloveitchik).
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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.
