Musar for Shabbat 253:5
איבעיא להו הני ארבע וחמש קופות דקאמר בארבע וחמש קופות אין טפי לא אלמא למעוטי בהילוכא עדיף או דילמא למעוטי משוי עדיף
Our Rabbis taught: If produce is heaped together [for storage] and one commenced [using] it on the eve of the Sabbath, he may take supplies from it on the Sabbath; if not, he may not take supplies from it on the Sabbath: this is R. Simeon's view; but R. Aha permits it. Whither does this tend!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely it should be reversed, since R. Simeon always rejects mukzeh. ');"><sup>4</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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