Reply To: Karpas – is any ha’adoma ok?

Re: raw onions…shulchan aruch states raw fish is not to be eaten. but that hasn’t stopped anyone from eating it in sushi.

Point is, brachos depend on the place and time. In places that raw onions WERE eaten, then it is haadoma. If it is eaten with bread or in a salad, even if a tofel in THAT situation, it is still a food that is eaten raw – according to many poskim. Rw fish – we eat and ignore the sakana mentioned in Shulchan Oruch…just as we ignore the halacha of a proper chazoras haShatz in mincha (not a heicha kedusha) or the poskim (like CHofetz Chaim) that forbids shaving.

We pick and choose how we hold on various halochos, but we scream and howl at everyone who picks and chooses differently than our choices (like eating cake before davening or not sleeping in a sukka)! That is the Jewish way. I am right – you are wrong.