Reply To: Shirayim

I don’t think the scrambling has any merit. Where I have been it was handed out and passed around in an orderly fassion.

Mayan-Dvash mentioned what we learn from the adverse effects of Shirayim. We also find it in a positive way. The Gemara in Brachos on the last Amud(64) says that one who enjoys a Seuda in which a Talmud Chacham partakes is as if he is enjoying the glory of the Shechina. We learn this from the description in the Pasuk of Klal Yisroel as eating in front of Hashem, because they ate at the Seuda of Moshe and Aharon.

We find the concept of Shirayim by Korbanos, and by Mitzvos, in general.

When Yeshiva Bochrim used to stay at local houses it was a custom for the Bochur to leave over something so that the host would have from a Yeshiva Bochur’s Shirayim.

It says, Gedolah Legima, that a meal together brings people together in a way that cannot be accomplished otherwise. That is why Avraham and Avimelech made their pact over a meal.

There is also another point. If someone eats with the right intentions and approach, it is considered a Korban. Eating the Shirayim is like having from Shirayim of a Korban.