Many people hold on to all types of embellishments of commandments to which charitable acts are preferable tenfold. Some sing Shalom Aleichem in a leisurely way, while their hungry guests' stomachs are rumbling…
We should always try to learn and consider what the Holy One, blessed be He, desires from us. There will be cases when it will become clear that at times when the Almighty's will is that we benefit people – rather that embellish embellishments with embellishments, which may be neither required, appropriate nor timely.