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- [Avodah] psak/feelings May 1, 2024Very interesting. I?ve heard him tell the same story, but I think the punchline was that even if the reasons were not strong, the psak was right (more of a testament to heavenly intervention in psak-along the line of the donkey of Pinchas Ben Yair) Bsorot tovot Joel rich > On 1 May 2024, at […]
- [Avodah] psak/feelings May 1, 2024RHS told the following story many times in shiur. The Chasam Sofer would write his teshuvos and leave them on the desk for his son, the Ksav Sofer, to review and mail. One day he saw that the teshuva that he had written the previous day was still sitting there. He asked his son why […]
- [Avodah] Popcorn et al on Pesach May 1, 2024Corn and peanuts are both New World foods that were unknown at the time the ban on kitniyos was first promulgated, and logically? should not be banned for that reason, just as potatoes, also a New World food, are not banned on Pesach.? Potatoes can be made into flour and cooked and baked in all […]
- [Avodah] psak/feelings May 1, 2024On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 7:26PM Micha Berger wrote: > ...I didn't directly mention that M[inchas Yitzchak. Rather, I repeated > that > RAW himself named him as an achron ...who thought a good > poseiq should be working from a good intuition (to paraphrase), but that > RAW personally didn't understand how he […]
- [Avodah] psak/feelings April 30, 2024On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 11:36:43AM -0400, Zvi Lampel wrote: > I still haven't seen the Minchas Yitzchak that RMB referred to, yet. I > don't know where to look. To be fair, I didn't directly mention that MY. Rather, I repeated that RAW himself named him as an achron who disagreed, who thought […]
- [Avodah] psak/feelings April 28, 2024From: Joel Rich > ... I recently heard R Asher Weiss say a poseik shouldn't have any > "feeling" about the answer to a question but rather look at sources and see > where they take him.... From: Micha Berger > ... >> The Chavatzeles haSharon quotes a chain of acharonim who hold that a […]
- [Avodah] NOT Banned as Kitniyot during Pesach - pop-corn,
fresh peas, and peanuts April 25, 2024. R' Meir G. Rabi cited MBerrurah 453:6. His translation is: > The reason for this stringency is that Sometimes wheat is found > amongst Kitniyot and they cannot be identified and removed with > confidence, and will become Chamets when baked or cooked He concludes from this that > Although the MBerrurah adds flour […]
- [Avodah] Popcorn et al on Pesach April 22, 2024On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 08:50:56PM +0300, Michael Mirsky via Avodah wrote: > Here in Israel, a well known Dati-Leumi Rav Rabbi Levanon paskened that a > particular brand of rice cakes may be eaten by Ashkenzim on Pesach because > he examined the factory in which they are made and a no point […]
- [Avodah] Popcorn et al on Pesach April 20, 2024InAvodah Digest, Vol 42, Issue 26 Rabbi Meir G. Rabi explained about kitniyot and tavshil. Here in Israel, a well known Dati-Leumi Rav Rabbi Levanon paskened that a particular brand of rice cakes may be eaten by Ashkenzim on Pesach because he examined the factory in which they are made and a no point does […]
- [Avodah] NOT Banned as Kitniyot during Pesach - pop-corn, fresh peas,
and peanuts April 18, 2024It seems that everyone, even Ashkenasim who refrain from Kitniyos, may enjoy pop-corn, peanuts and peanut butter during Pesach. INTRODUCTION The Kitniyos ban was initiated when everyone was baking Matza at home throughout Pesach. This Matza was 10-12mm thick, soft and chewy, and was a stringency imposed to not make Matza 50-60mm thick, as they […]