Rabbi Shimon says: [If] three people ate at the same table and did not speak words of Torah upon it, it is as if they ate from offerings of the dead, as it is stated: For all tables are full of vomit [and] filth, without the Omnipresent. But three who ate at the same table and spoke words of Torah upon it, it is as if they ate from the table of the Omnipresent, Blessed is He, as it is stated: And [the angel] said to me, “This is the table that is before Hashem.”