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March 28, 2019 11:56 pm at 11:56 pm #1704569MilhouseParticipant
Rebbetzin, every posek I’ve seen on the subject, except Reb Moshe, takes for granted that the gezera (or takana) was not on specific species but on the entire categories of seeds that grow in pods and pesudo-grains, and therefore peanuts are forbidden. The best proof is from mustard, which is forbidden only because it grows in pods. Corn was also unknown when the gezera was made, and yet not even Reb Moshe permitted it.
March 28, 2019 11:57 pm at 11:57 pm #1704572MilhouseParticipantRe: Tibulei bemashkeh, something that is never eaten with the hands does not require washing when it’s indeed not eaten with the hands. E.g. there is no need to wash for cereal with milk, since it’s always eaten with a spoon. But something that is usually eaten with the hands requires washing even if you happen to be eating it without them.
This is why it’s a good idea to cultivate the habit of always eating pickles with a fork, even when you’ve already washed for bread or for some other wet thing. That way when you eat them outside a meal, with a fork, you don’t have to wash for them.
March 29, 2019 1:01 pm at 1:01 pm #1704779lowerourtuition11210ParticipantSince most people eat common vegetables for their area for Karpas there is no reason to remind someone about a shechiyanu. Or you may have it in mind with the shehechiyanu of kiddush ( as one does on the new fruit or clothes the second night of Rosh Hashana)
March 29, 2019 1:14 pm at 1:14 pm #1704785So l’maaseh, using pickles for Karpas – good idea or no?
If yes, do we need to dunk or just pull out of jar? (Pre-dunked)
Can you dunk the entire potato with fork (to avoid getting fingers in salt water bowl) and then cut up and eat by hand? And boiled potatoes are very bland – why not use French fries? ??March 30, 2019 10:55 pm at 10:55 pm #1704955iacisrmmaParticipant1. we use baked potatos.
2. I find it interesting that you didn’t quote Reb Moshe Feinstein Tzatzal (I”M OC 64) who states “shehleolom mevarech Shehhakol ahl shumim ubtzalim bein chaim bein mevushalim lvad metigun btzalim bshemen oh bchemah mevarech B”PH.http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14673&st=&pgnum=138
March 30, 2019 10:56 pm at 10:56 pm #1704969Neville ChaimBerlinParticipantMilhouse:
That’s interesting about Sanz; I was not aware of that.
It’s not entirely true that all say shehakol on raw potatoes. The Mishnah Berurah says no brochah is made on them sense they aren’t really eaten like that if I recall correctly.I believe there is a shittah independent of the Sanz minhag you mentioned that karpas should have to be naturally occurring adamah, not something that has to be cooked into it. I’ll try to track down a source if I can.
Regarding onions, isn’t the Minhag haGra and minhag Lubavitch to use onions for karpas?
March 30, 2019 11:04 pm at 11:04 pm #1705033lacisrmma – “we use baked potatoes”
wouldn’t it be better to use a RAW vegetable like a carrot or celery (or radish)?! That is closer to “karpas” (a salad vegetable)?! A cooked food seems odd!
March 30, 2019 11:15 pm at 11:15 pm #1705051Re: 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.
March 31, 2019 2:13 am at 2:13 am #1705185MilhouseParticipantNeville, yes, Lubav uses raw onions. The reason is not recorded, but remember where Lubav come from, and not much green was available at Pesach time. I was told that the reason to use onion rather than potato is to ensure that one will not eat a kezayis, but I have not seen this in writing.
(Consider also the northern European practice of using horseradish for maror, and subsequently the mistaken belief that it is “tamcho” which is one of the 5 kinds of maror. In northern Europe none of the 5 kinds were available, so they substituted what they had, and over time developed the belief that it was one of the kinds. But everyone agrees that where lettuce is available it should be used.)
March 31, 2019 11:32 am at 11:32 am #1705439Reb EliezerParticipantThere is a story that the Chayeh Adam wanted to asser potatoes for kitniyas so the people said you want to take away the chayeh adam.
March 31, 2019 12:44 pm at 12:44 pm #1705473WolfishMusingsParticipantbut it’s silly to
If only that was the standard for some posts in the CR. 😀
The Wolf
March 31, 2019 4:50 pm at 4:50 pm #1705615iacisrmmaParticipantreb. Bottom line there are poskim with broad shoulders staing the same issue and coming to different conclusions. i am not sure our eating of uncooked onions in salads and the like changes the brocha from shehhakol according to Reb Moshe and the Mishna Berura.
March 31, 2019 4:51 pm at 4:51 pm #1705618silly for whom?
Pickled watermelon is common in some cultures and areas of world (google it for recipes).
April 1, 2019 6:42 am at 6:42 am #1705827MilhouseParticipantLaskern, there is indeed such a story, but it’s not true.
April 1, 2019 9:16 am at 9:16 am #1705923Reb EliezerParticipantThey say that potatoes were not available at the time of the Geonim, so the gezara was not on it even though we make flour from it.
April 1, 2019 4:04 pm at 4:04 pm #1706250MilhouseParticipant“They” can say all kinds of things but it doesn’t make them true. Corn was not available at the time of the geonim either (not that the geonim had anything to do with this gezera, which was completely unknown where they lived, but it was also not available in 12th-century France, where it seems this gezera originated) and yet everyone agrees it is forbidden.
And don’t be so sure that making flour has anything to do with the reason for the gezera. Some achronim suggested it as a possible reason, but who says they were right?
April 18, 2019 8:38 am at 8:38 am #1717277Yossef’s coat was made of “karpas and techeles” (Rashi, Breshis 37:3) and that coat was dipped (in blood). What is the connection between the karpas dipped in salt water and Yossef’s coat (also “karpas) dipped in blood?
April 18, 2019 9:02 am at 9:02 am #1717341Reb EliezerParticipantכרפס – אותיות פרך ס
April 18, 2019 10:07 am at 10:07 am #1717370Reb EliezerParticipantTosfas in Shabbos indicates that פרך in את בש is וג’ל refering to ל’ט מלאכות for shabbos that they worked in mitzraim that was considered work and therefore forbidden to do on shabbos.
April 18, 2019 11:28 am at 11:28 am #1717394Reb EliezerParticipantMilhouse, about kitniyas look at the Mordechai 588 תקפ’ח.
April 18, 2019 1:00 pm at 1:00 pm #1717446Does any sefer mention that karpas is also mentioned in Yossef’s coat??? (see Rashi, Breshis 37:3)
April 18, 2019 1:01 pm at 1:01 pm #1717408☕️coffee addictParticipantכרפס – אותיות פרך ס
Laskern,It’s ס פרך and my Rosh Hayeshiva rabbi Zweig says it’s backwards because the פרך was men doing women work and women doing men work
April 18, 2019 1:27 pm at 1:27 pm #1717472Reb EliezerParticipantRashi does not say that the coat was made from carpas just where we find the word pas which means
כרים של פסים cushions of linen.April 18, 2019 4:09 pm at 4:09 pm #1717477Reb EliezerParticipantThe Chasam Sofer says that using horseradish for maror has a basis of תמכא – תמיד מספרים כבוד א-ל.
April 18, 2019 6:11 pm at 6:11 pm #1717580Karpas is also connected to Achashverosh’s party…חור כרפס ותכלת אחוז בחבלי בוץ וארגמן
How is it connected to the seder kaarah????April 18, 2019 6:11 pm at 6:11 pm #1717584כרפס – אותיות פרך ס, the source is Rokaach, That there enslaved 60 (x10,000 = 600,000 of the Bnei Yisroel). The obvious question is that there were 600,000 that left Mitzrayim (1) males,(2) only between 20 -60, yet in mitzrayim, they also enslaved the children (drowned them) and the older people and the women.
April 18, 2019 10:21 pm at 10:21 pm #1717609Reb EliezerParticipantThe kaarah has things that reflect our greatness and lowliness. See the Malbim the kashye of the mah nishtano is the history in a nutshell. The Rav Abarbanel says that the question is why do we do contradictory things?
April 24, 2019 1:22 am at 1:22 am #1718845Are you simply posting random divrei Torah on the Hagada?! What is the shaychus?! Doesn’t matter. Kol hamarbeh l’saper, come with a collection of pirushim and drush, remozim and sod/nister concepts.
April 24, 2019 1:22 am at 1:22 am #1718847Milhouse, there is an opinion that coffee (made from coffee beans) is kitniyos. I assume (but did not see) that chocolate would have the same ch’shash, as it comes from cocao beans.
April 24, 2019 6:47 am at 6:47 am #1718880MilhouseParticipantThere is no such opinion. Both coffee and chocolate grow on trees, and therefore by definition cannot be kitniyos.
April 24, 2019 6:48 am at 6:48 am #1718881MilhouseParticipantLaskern, Mordechai on which mesechta? Pesochim?
April 24, 2019 9:16 am at 9:16 am #1718897Reb EliezerParticipantMilhouse, obviously Pesochim
April 24, 2019 4:58 pm at 4:58 pm #1718951Milhouse – “There is no such opinion.”
Sharei Teshuva (Orach Chaim 453:1) cites one opinion that because coffee beans resemble other beans, one should refrain from drinking coffee on Pesach.
April 24, 2019 5:02 pm at 5:02 pm #1719043GalesParticipantI know of a Rosh Yeshiva (no longer with us in this world) who wanted to mekayem 2 criteria when doing Karpas.
1. Dip a borei pri haadamah in a liquis that requires netilas yadayim.
2. Dipping should bw done derech cheirus to show that we are bnei melachim.
His choice was to dip strawberries in champagne.April 24, 2019 9:14 pm at 9:14 pm #1719100Gales, that so called RY missed the remez of salt water for tears of yidden. Not everything at seder is for cheirus, morror charoses, yachatz etc remind of avdus.
April 25, 2019 2:14 am at 2:14 am #1719222MilhouseParticipantRG, the Shaarei Teshuva does not cite any opinion that coffee is kitniyos. On the contrary, he says it definitely is not, and the great person who was cited as refraining from it did so because he worried that ignorant people would think it was kitniyos, and if they saw him using it they would think kitniyos are permitted.
April 25, 2019 2:15 am at 2:15 am #1719224MilhouseParticipantIn other words, your claim that “there is an opinion that coffee (made from coffee beans) is kitniyos” is false.
Just as it is false that there exists an opinion that potatoes are kitniyos. There is no such opinion, no rov has ever forbidden potatoes, and anyone who claims otherwise should cite a primary source. Secondary sources do not count. And if you cite the Nishmas Odom you automatically lose, because it will prove that you’re citing a secondary source and didn’t bother to look it up yourself.
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