How often do you have guests for a Shabbat meal?

Racheli

Sun, May 27 2007, 7:36 pm

How often do you have guests for a Shabbat meal? Every week? Both meals on Shabbat? Once a month? And also, how would you describe yourself within the Orthodox world (e.g. MO, centrist orthodox, Lubavitch, Satmar, etc.)? We have guests very often, more than (I think) most people in our community, but it is pretty much our only time to socialize with other families.

Ruchel

Sun, May 27 2007, 7:44 pm

Only when we have guests who happen to be there for the week end too... family or foreign friends, or from other areas.... my friends are in other towns or not Jewish. In my community people don't really invite each other.

me Mo- dh "plain" Orthodox

bonzie

Sun, May 27 2007, 7:45 pm

we're litvish, and have guests almost every shabbas, sometimes both meals and sometimes just one, my dd doesn't eat that much and its so frustrating making an entire shabbas for two people, so we really enjoy having guests, all the time, I think the two things that make it so possible are:

freezer
dishwasher

amother

Sun, May 27 2007, 8:10 pm

We have guests for one meal (usually lunch) almost every shabbos, and have sleepover guests 1-2 times a month. We try very hard to have a "just family" shabbos meal every shabbos we aren't having sleepover company. We are "right wing YU" type (although I hate labels), and DH is a Rav in a shul, so it is a given that we have guests.

BrachaVHatzlocha ↓

Sun, May 27 2007, 8:25 pm

We're Litvish.
We have one guests who comes almost every Shabbos (a bochur) for all 3 meals.
Other than that, we have others guests every few weeks or even less often.

Raisin

Mon, May 28 2007, 6:16 am

we have guests every week on friday night. usually students/singles but all sorts. Usually but not always we have guests on shabbos day as well. It is part of our job but even when we didn't live here we had guests every shabbos once I had a baby.

we are lubavitch.

chocolate moose

Mon, May 28 2007, 9:05 am

On Shabbosim, I fed high school boys for many many years - 16 to be exact - until my son left for Israel and my daughter really was too old to have a mixed table like that any more.

We would occ. have families for yomtov.

Now, at this point in our lives, we're tired to have guests on Friday nights, and Shabbos day we eat in shul. So the only guests we hve are occasional; and generally only if someone needs a place.

Newsie

Mon, May 28 2007, 9:14 am

We have guests almost every shabbos- but not other families. Mostly seminary girls or bochurim.

melalyse

Wed, May 30 2007, 9:31 pm

We have guests every meal that we are home on shabbos. The exceptions are right before pesach and right after I had my son and similar situations.

RedVines

Wed, May 30 2007, 9:48 pm

we have guests every week, families, single girls,

we are lubavs!!!

↑ BrachaVHatzlocha

Wed, May 30 2007, 10:13 pm

because we live in Flatbush where most people don't hold from the eiruv, it's not really possible for us to have over families or for us to be invited our further than next door. Smile

That's why we usually have a bochur, single girl or couple.