May the single person who has finished eating bentch alone and leave before the two have finished their meal?
Synopsis
The Shulchan Aruch rules that the single person who finished eating may not bentch alone and leave to the marketplace until the two have finished. The Bach and Magen Avraham dissent, holding he may leave if the need is pressing.
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When three people ate together and two have finished, must the third interrupt his meal to respond to zimun?
3 opinions
Must two people interrupt their meal for a single third person who wishes to perform zimun?
2 opinions
Until what point in the zimun must the third person who interrupted remain — through 'Baruch she'achalnu' or through 'HaZan et hakol'?
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After interrupting to hear zimun, may the third person resume his meal without a new blessing (hamotzi)?
5 opinions
Where must the third person begin Birkat Hamazon after he interrupted for zimun and then continued eating — from 'HaZan' or from 'Nodeh lecha'?
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May a person who interrupted for zimun re-obligate himself in a new zimun by eating again with two other people?
2 opinions
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