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Tagged as: table manners

  • Meal
  • table manners

Do we hold that one shouldn’t take a piece off the bread with one hand and eat with the other hand?

  The rule of not holding the food in one hand and tearing off a piece with the other hand applies only to food which is on a plate. Food…

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  • Meal, Muktzeh
  • table manners, או"ח קע, או"ח שח

Are you allowed to spit cherry pits into a plate in front of you on a table on Shabbos?

  This should only be done if there is some food on the plate. When there is food, the entire plate can be lifted and placed in the garbage. If…

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