Musar for Shabbat 253:4
תנא כמה שיעור תבואה צבורה לתך בעא מיניה רב נחומי בר זכריה מאביי שיעור תבואה צבורה בכמה אמר ליה הרי אמרו שיעור תבואה צבורה לתך
Our Rabbis taught: One must not commence with a store for the first time, but he may make a path through it to enter and go out. 'He may make a path'! but surely you say, 'One must not commence'? — This is its meaning: one may make a path through it with his feet as he enters and goes out.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is not handling. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Kav HaYashar
Whenever one offers hospitality to a wayfarer one must do so with a pleasant countenance. Chazal tell us, “Welcoming guests is greater than greeting the Shechinah” (Shabbos 127a). It is a mitzvah of great importance, for whoever gives bread to a poor man weakens the power of 480 bands of destroying angels, as well as that of Lilis, mother of the sheidim, who is always on the look out for accusations to make against the Jewish people. (See Chapter Ten.)
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