Reply To: Why are the Hashgochos promulgating a fraud: Oat Matzos

Oi vay, RK you are likely to get a drubbing from the infalibility crowd for that hava amina. Rashi also describes the Shiboles Shual as looking like a fox tail. The seed in its green husk does indeed have that shape, but if he meant the cluster of grain ( there isn’t one in oats) he may have been referring to a heavy awned barley which would also look like a tail, and the latter would also conform to the discussion on the daf, and the mishna in Kilayim, which groups Shiboles shual with the barleys, and not with the wheats. A wild cultivar of oat type grass grows all over the hills here, and one hypothesis I saw has this inedible type being vectored up to Europe by the Romans, and there it crossed with something to become aveena sativum.