*8. Making Kugel for Shabbos:[1]

Some communities have the custom of eating a Knish^[2] on Friday night.^[3] There is no need however to be particular in this matter.[4] [However, it is an old Jewish custom to eat Kugel on Shabbos, and some write that this takes the place of the Knish custom.[5]]

The Pashtida of the Baal Shem Tov:^[6]

Once when the Rebbetzin of Rav Yaakov Yosef of Polnoa returned from the house of the Baal Shem Tov, he asked her, ‘What did the Baal Shem Tov’s wife teach you?’ She replied simply, ‘The rabbanit taught me the Kavanos of the Ketores that one should have upon cooking the Knish for Shabbos.”

__________________________________________

[1] See Rama 242:1; Piskeiy Teshuvos 242:12

[2] A knish is a beloved staple of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine—a savory pastry filled with mashed potatoes, kasha (buckwheat), onions, or sometimes meat or cheese. The dough is typically soft and pillowy, and the whole thing can be either baked or fried, depending on the style.

[3] Rama 242:1 “Some wrote that in certain communities it is accustomed to eat Mulyasa, which is called Pashtida on Friday night in commemoration of the Mun which was covered on top and on bottom.”; Maharil Hilchos Shabbos p. 204; Siddur Yaavetz that the Medakdikin are particular in this, and that so did his father the Chacham Tzevi

[4] Rama ibid; The entire minhag is omitted from Admur ibid; Toras Chaim Sofer 242:6; See Biur Halacha 242:1 “Zecher” who questions this entire Minhag on the basis that the Mun did not fall on Shabbos

[5] Nimukei Orach Chaim 271:2; Piskeiy Teshuvos 242:12

[6] Migdal Oz p. 246; Haparsha Hachassidit [Chazak] Vol. 1 p. 348