Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 235:4

לימא רבנן היא ולא ר' חידקא אפי' תימא ר' חידקא דאמרינן ליה מאי דבעית למיכל במעלי שבתא אכליה לאורתא וכולי יומא דמעלי שבתא בתעניתא מותבינן ליה אלא הא מני רבי עקיבא היא דאמר עשה שבתך חול ואל תצטרך לבריות

And the whole day of Sabbath eve [Friday] we make him spend in fasting?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is virtually a fast if he must postpone his second meal to the night. ');">⁶</span> Rather the author of this is R. Akiba, who said: Treat thy Sabbath like a weekday rather than be dependent on men.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence if he has fourteen meals he can eat two on the Sabbath rather than receive charity. — This saying of R. Akiba is sometimes quoted nowadays to show that one may even desecrate the Sabbath rather than descend to charity. It is quite obvious that R. Akiba had no such thing in mind but merely meant that one should not seek to obtain the extra luxuries of the Sabbath through charity. ');">⁷</span>

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