On leil Shabbos, Imma asked Chaya to help finish setting up the Shabbos table. Chaya was very helpful. She set the silverware, the napkins and cups. After that she sat on the couch and started reading a book.
As soon as she opened the book, her sister Leah came in the room.
“Didn’t Imma ask you to help finish setting up the table?!” asked Leah.
“She did. And I did,” replied Chaya.
Leah looked at the table, then turned back to Chaya, and asked with humor, “So are we going to be sitting on the floor?!”
“Oh the chairs? When we’ll be ready to start the seuda, everyone will pull up his own chair,” explained Chaya, and added: “L’kavod Shabbos, it’s only necessary to set the table before Abba comes home. But not the chairs.”
“I think the chairs should be set now,” said Leah.
Question: Who is right - Leah or Chaya?
Hints & Answers* HALACHA CHALLENGE: The Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 262:1) writes: יסדר שלחנו ויציע המטות ויתקן כל ענייני הבית כדי שימצאנו ערוך ומסודר בבואו מבה"כ (Paraphrased translation: One should set the dining room, prepare the chairs and clean up the house, so that he will find it arranged and orderly when he returns from the shul.) RHYMES: “joy” RIDDLE: 1. The 2nd day that Moshe went out to see the burdens of Klal Yisroel (Shemos 2:13); 2.שמות = Shnayim Mikra Vechad Targum; 3. hand (Shemos 4:6) and water (Shemos 4:9); 4. The light that filled the room after Moshe was born (Rashi to Shemos 2:2) and Eretz Yisroel (Shemos 3:8). 5. Basya saved Moshe when he was a baby (Shemos 2:6) and Tzipora saved Moshe’s life during the incident by the inn (Shemos 4:25); 6. In the verse Shemos 4:2, the 2 words מַה זֶה are written in the sefer Torah as one word: מזה. See Rashi’s explanation for this. | *Menucha answers are not to be taken as final decisions in halacha.
