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SEIF 3 If someone's morning meal stretches until Mincha time, he can split the meal in two in order to fulfill the Mitzvah of Shaalos Seudos. The Rosh explains that this it is advisable to do so, since if one were to eat a large meal, he might be too full to eat Shaalos Seudos at a later time. Rather, he should split up the meal and eat while he still has his appetite. (Sometimes a person can eat a large meal at one time, but waiting until later might ruin his appetite and he would be too full to eat another meal.)

Seif 2 (Contd.) Rabeinu Tam says that one should eat Shaalos Seudos before Mincha. The Medrish says that someone who drinks water Bein Hashmashes is stealing from the dead (who need the water to cool down before returning to Gehenim).

Seif 2 (Contd.) Rabeinu Tam says that one should eat Shaalos Seudos before Mincha. The Medrish says that someone who drinks water Bein Hashmashes is stealing From the dead (who need the water to cool down before returning to Gehenim). The Gra quotes a Rashba that brings a Yerushalmi which tells the story of someone who drank Bein Hashmashes and the Malach Hamaves killed him for it since he was stealing from the dead. Therefore one should eat before Mincha, otherwise he may eat and come to drink during Bein Hashmashes.

Seif 2 (Contd.) The Magen Avraham writes that if one starts Shaalos Seudos before theTime of Mincha, but the meal stretches and goes into the time of ShaalosSeudos, he is Yoitze Shaalos Seudos. The Elya Rabba, however, quotes the SeferChasidim which holds that a person cannot split a meal so that half of itshould be considered Shaalos Seudos. He holds that a full meal needs tobe eaten at the time when Shaalos Seudos may be eaten.

Seif 2The Ran writes that one may split up the morning meal by spreading a cloth on the bread, Bentching, then making Hamoitzie again. However, Tosfos and Rosh write that a person would not be Yoitze Shaalos Seudos unless he eats from the time of Mincha (six and a half hours after the beginning of the day).