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When is the Shalom Zachar to take place?
The Shalom Zachar is to take place on the first Shabbos after the birth of the male child.[1] This applies even if the circumcision will be delayed past the eighth day due to medical reasons, nevertheless, the Shalom Zachar is to take place on the first Shabbos after the birth and not on the Shabbos prior to the delayed circumcision.[2] [The custom is to cater this meal after the Shabbos Friday night meal.[3]]
_____________________________________________[1] See Rama ibid; Shevach Habris 10:1
[2] Os Shalom Munkatch 265:32; Shevach Habris 10:2 footnote 5 in name of Rav Leibel Groner that so directed the Rebbe
Other opinions: Some Poskim rule that if the circumcision will be delayed past the eighth day due to medical reasons, then the Shalom Zachar is to take place on the Shabbos prior to the delayed circumcision and not on the first Shabbos after the birth. [Implication of Chochmas Adam 129:24; Kitzur SHU”A 163:8
[3] Shevach Habris 10:4
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