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I still can’t figure out why people think they are entitled to take home “care” packages from someone else’s simcha – but that is a whole other topic.
With regard to a bris, for example, it seems to be the accepted practice (at least in Brooklyn).
However, even if I do this, I will follow the following guidelines:
1. Only take for others towards the end of the simcha, when it’s clear that everyone who is at the simcha who wants to eat has had the opportunity to do so. If I have to leave early before everyone else has had a chance to eat, I will not take for others.
2. Take a SMALL amount. A bagel with something on it is acceptable. Half a dozen filled bagels, along with some herring and cake, is not*.
3. Thank the host.
The Wolf
* Obviously, if the host says to you “take half a dozen bagels…” then it would be acceptable.