- Q. See questions above: On this year (2025) that Purim is on Friday, and my great good neighbor invited my family and other neighbors to celebrate a most beautiful Seuda of Purim together, as he often does.
Yet since it is with a large group and with many kids, and it usually extends into the night, and now that is on Shabbat. Can we just continue eating as before? Will it count as the Seudat Shabbat also?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 271: 4) rules that one is not allowed to taste anything before reciting Kiddush on Shabbos – and even if one started eating before Shabbos began, he must stop and recite Kiddush. Further on (471: 21) Mishna Berura writes that one should stop eating even before the Shekia or when sunset begins.
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