SHALOSH SEUDOS & SURVIVING GOG AND MAGOG [#16564]

November 7, 2021

QUESTION:

The navi says that in the war of Gog and Magog, only one from each city or two from each family will survive. But don’t Chazal says that if one is careful to eat Shalosh Seudos (the third meal) on Shabbos he will be saved from the war of Gog and Magog, which implies that a lot more people will be survive the war of Gog and Magog?

ANSWER:

It is referring to one who fulfills Shalosh Seudos completely. The word shalosh connotes shleimus, completion.