Q. I make Kiddush on Friday night on wine. All of a sudden, a guest comes in. I do not have more wine to give him. So we wash and I make hamotzi. After I make hamotzi, am I allowed to continue with Kiddush (Baruch ata…. mekadesh haShabbos) to be motzi the guest? Or is the Kiddush a hefsek between hamotzi and my eating of the challah, since I do not need the Kiddush – only someone else needs it?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the best recourse is to have the guest himself after washing make his own kidush on the chalah. If he does not know how to make kidush, you may after reciting hamotzi and eating a kezais chalah and the guest having washed hands, recite kidush on his behalf.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a