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Day 145: True Hospitality: Did You Ask Your Wife?

Remember that time in Fiddler on the Roof when Tevye brings home Perchik right before Shabbas? Golde isn't all too thrilled and rushes Perchik around barely uttering a kind word to him (even though that seems to be Golde's usual demeanor)? Right well apparently, according to a combination of opinions from both Bava Metzia and Rabbi Berel Wein, a woman is more likely to be stingy towards guests because a man is more likely to invite guests over without much thought. The woman usually then tends to the guests' needs from food to bedding etc. NOTE: while this may not be true in every case or even in this age anymore, it was at some point more true than not.

If you and your spouse would like to be overachievers...or perhaps completely appropriate leveled achievers, you should mimic the actions of Abraham and Sarah. When Abraham brought home 3 guests (who were angels, unbeknownst to him), he shared equally the duties of attending to his guests with his wife.