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Supper on Erev Tisha B'av - ideas?



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mindyme




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 12:52 am
What do you serve for supper on erev Tisha B'av? (before the Seudah Hamfsekes)
You're not having meat or fish, cheese makes you thirsty... Ideas?
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Tova  




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 1:19 am
Why not fish?

Last year I think we had bagel, lox, cream cheese and I'll probrably get that for my husband. I will probrably have salmon and brown rice w/ sauteed onions. Maybe a vegetable or potato leek soup.

[Some people would avoid lox because of the salt content but our "shitta" is to just eat foods you like and drink a lot.]
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MiracleMama




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 1:25 am
What's wrong with fish. That's what we always have since we rarely eat dairy here. I''' probably broil some salmon and serve with rice and some veggies.
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Grandmama  




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 3:05 am
Traditionally fish is not served by many people, as it is considered a "dish of royalty" like chicken or meat.
Most people I know, (and I just read this in an article recently), eat only a simple dish of ONE cooked food, like pasta with cottage or farmer cheese, bread and eggs at the end of the meal smeared with ash. Fruits and vegetables are no problem, and lots of water and liquids, and grapes and watermelon.

Before Yom Kippur, we also do not eat fish at the last seuda, only soup and chicken. We eat fish during the first meal, earlier in the day, but not the meal before the fast. Something about fish making one thirsty.
But erev Yom Kippur is like a yom tov, with regular yom tov type of foods being served.
I would never eat lox before a fast, I find when I eat it or any other smoked salty type dish, I am always very thirsty afterwards. I would eat lox after the fast, not before.
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  Grandmama  




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 3:08 am
For those who do not eat dairy, I think scrambled eggs would be the protein, and fruits and veggies would be the side dishes. As it is traditional to eat only one cooked dish, to feel the Chorban Beis Hamikdosh, where people were dying of hunger, we do not prepare many different varieties of foods to be eaten before the fast.
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life'sgreat




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 3:13 am
Some people don't eat fish because it makes them thirsty and I'm not sure drinking a lot right after helps.
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  Tova




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 3:40 am
Interesting, I have never heard of not eating fish before the seudah hamafsekes Erev Tisha B'av for "religious" reasons (versus practical reasons such as thirst, etc.).

Well, we have been known to have deli sandwiches before fasts (not Tisha B'av, of course). Again, we like to have food we are "in the mood of" or whatever and I don't find that high salt content negatively affect me in a fast. Of course on Tisha B'av by mid afternoon I'll be thirsty - who would expect otherwise?
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kalsee




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 4:02 am
Grandmama wrote:

Before Yom Kippur, we also do not eat fish at the last seuda, only soup and chicken. We eat fish during the first meal, earlier in the day, but not the meal before the fast. Something about fish making one thirsty.


We don't eat fish erev yom kippur at the seuda mafseket , because we are scared that out of aimat hadin we might choke on a bone.
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Besiyata Dishmaya




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 5:35 am
Grandmama wrote:
Traditionally fish is not served by many people, as it is considered a "dish of royalty" like chicken or meat.
Most people I know, (and I just read this in an article recently), eat only a simple dish of ONE cooked food, like pasta with cottage or farmer cheese, bread and eggs at the end of the meal smeared with ash. Fruits and vegetables are no problem, and lots of water and liquids, and grapes and watermelon.

Before Yom Kippur, we also do not eat fish at the last seuda, only soup and chicken. We eat fish during the first meal, earlier in the day, but not the meal before the fast. Something about fish making one thirsty.
But erev Yom Kippur is like a yom tov, with regular yom tov type of foods being served.
I would never eat lox before a fast, I find when I eat it or any other smoked salty type dish, I am always very thirsty afterwards. I would eat lox after the fast, not before.

OP was asking about "before the Seudah Hamfsekes" when you may eat as much as you want. A simple dish of one cooked food is regarding the Seudah Hamafsekes.

Now OP to your question, I make anything that's not spicy. Generally, I make cheese blintzes or fish as the main course and add soup, vegetables and a starch.
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freidasima




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 7:25 am
I make vegetable soup with pasta inside. No protein. We have eggs that day for lunch with dairy so that's enough proteing for the day. He/she who doesnt' want the soup can just have the pasta on the side with whatever they want on it. Ketchup, cottage cheese, etc.

The actual "seuda mafsekes" is just a piece of bread with ash washed down by water.
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  Grandmama




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 11:45 am
freidasima wrote:
I make vegetable soup with pasta inside. No protein. We have eggs that day for lunch with dairy so that's enough proteing for the day. He/she who doesnt' want the soup can just have the pasta on the side with whatever they want on it. Ketchup, cottage cheese, etc.

The actual "seuda mafsekes" is just a piece of bread with ash washed down by water.


You smear the bread with ash? Not the egg white? Do you also take 9 sips of water?
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chocolate moose




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 11:55 am
a noodle dish. like last year.
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shabbatiscoming




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 18 2010, 11:58 am
we have pasta with cottage cheese and ash and bread. drink either water or soda water.
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