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  • #608752
    Torah613Torah
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    According to the Shabbos Hagadol Drasha I went to today: Avraham Avinu served tongue with mustard. Mustard is kitniyos. Therefore Avraham Avinu was Sephardic and ate kitniyos.

    (the speech was about lashon hara)

    #940410
    SaysMe
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    🙂

    #940411
    shmoolik 1
    Participant

    is it not obvious if he was ashkenazi He would be called Avrum Avinuwitz

    #940412
    WIY
    Member

    Torah

    That only proves that his guests were sefardim.

    #940413
    playtime
    Member

    The issur of Kitniot only came about much later by the rabbis

    #940414
    rebdoniel
    Member

    Hazal ate rice and gebrokts. They also say it is preferred to use romaine lettuce for marror, and did a bunch of things many don’t do.

    #940415
    Torah613Torah
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    WIY: Good point.

    #1806668
    RebbeDebbie
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    WIY: why blame Sephardim? That’s racist.

    #1806717

    RebeDebbie: Im not sure what you are reading. WIY is not blaming sefardim for ANYTHING. The OP made statement about Avrahom Avinu and he is contradicting it.

    #1806722
    Reb Eliezer
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    Look up SA O’CH 464 MB s’k 5, that mustard is ‘like’ kitniyus included in the issur but not really kitniyus.

    #1806751
    Reb Eliezer
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    I just noticed, the Baer Hetev 464,2 brings from the Taz that the Rokeach, an ashkanaz, allows eating mustard on Pesach provided it was not ground in a chometzdig dish.

    #1806781
    Benephraim
    Participant

    It was ערב פסח before חצות.I think.

    #1806839
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    “It was ערב פסח before חצות.I think.”

    The malach said this time next year Avraham will have a son

    And Yitzchak was born on pesach

    #1806851
    Sam Klein
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    Even if Avrohom avinu did eat kitniyos that doesn’t matter due to the fact that he lived before Kabbalas Hatorah and before the yom tov of Pesach even existed.

    Even if we all know it says that Avrohom avinu kept the entire Torah

    #1806881
    Yukel face
    Participant

    Don’t forget he fed the malachim basar bechalv as well

    #1806882
    Little Froggie
    Participant

    He ate? He only served!!!

    #1806903
    Yukel face
    Participant

    In chumash and in bava metziya it says avraham didnt eat anything – not even the mustard so he was 100 ashkenazi. The malachim….

    #1806901
    Yukel face
    Participant

    Avraham didn’t eat the mustard ether

    #1806945
    yehudayona
    Participant

    The malachim didn’t eat either. Probably because they didn’t mish.

    On that note, why didn’t Avraham and Yitzchak take a plane to the Akeida?

    The couldn’t get through security with a knife and fire.

    #1806924
    Yabia Omer
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    Not eating mustard on Passover is like saying “you can’t say the word ‘lighter’ on Shabbat because you might come to touch a lighter and then you might come to your in a fire on Shabbat”.

    #1806961
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    I don’t know why YO feels the need to denigrate Ashkenazi minhagim.

    Although I could probably take a guess…

    #1806963
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Take a guess

    #1807069

    Yabia Omer i think the following passuk apples to your response about muktza (Koheles 1:16 מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹֽא־יוּכַ֣ל לִתְקֹ֑ן). Based on your logic we cant say pig or bacon because we might come to eat it. Or maybe we dont have to practice the harchokos for niddah as we know we cant have relations with a niddah.
    Am I to understand that sefardim do not believe in gedarim? Let us understand that kitniyot is not a 20th or 21st century issur but dates back to the kadmonim. Hamon Am was not well versed in the torah so the chachamim placed many safeguards so as to avoid problems. Since it was easy to confuse one type of flour with another and chametz is an issur kares a safefguard was put in place. The fact that the sephardic community did not need these safeguards could very well be that Rice and other kitniyot were never mixed with the 5 grains whereas in other communities it was common.(See MB Siman 453 SK 6).

    http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49627&st=&pgnum=95

    #1807271
    Yabia Omer
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    No problem but why extend it EVEN FURTHER to mustard??

    #1807326
    iacisrmma
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    YA: What Mustard do you think it was referring to? our mustard? or mustard in its original form which is a seed that is ground into powder similar to sesame seeds. Just like sesame seeds were included so was mustard seeds.

    #1807337
    Yabia Omer
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    Adam Harishon was a vegan

    #1807339
    Toi
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    Proof the Avos were ashkenazim. If they were sfardim Yaakov would’ve been named Avraham. Cracks me up every time…

    #1807367
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    You mean Esav would’ve been named Avraham. He was first.

    #1807357
    lakewhut
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    He new how to differentiate between grains

    #1807406
    DovidBT
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    There’s also nothing mentioned about checking the p’ri ha’eitz for bugs.

    #1807423
    MDG
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    “Proof the Avos were ashkenazim. If they were sfardim Yaakov would’ve been named Avraham. Cracks me up every time…”

    The Tanaiim named after living grandparents.
    Between Hillel and Rebbi Hakadosh there is Gamliel and Shimon leapfrogging over 4 or 5 generations.
    Rebbi Yishmael Ben Elisha was named after his grandfather, Yishmael Ben Elisha the Kohen Gadol.

    #1807527
    Milhouse
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    No problem but why extend it EVEN FURTHER to mustard??

    It was not extended “even further”. There is a common belief that the original takanah was to forbid specific named species, but there is no basis for this belief in any pre-20th century source. Every pre-20th century posek, as far as I know without exception, says that the takanah was against all species that fit the criteria, and one of those criteria is that all species that grow in pods are forbidden. Therefore, since mustard grows in pods, it is forbidden. End of story.

    #1807617
    yehudayona
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    Uh oh. Cacao beans grow in pods. No more chocolate on Pesach.

    #1807566
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    It’s a sign of respect to name after one’s living parents. Can you think of a greater source of Kibud and of Nachas?

    #1807638
    iacisrmma
    Participant

    YA: According to sefardim; not according to the ashkenazim.

    #1807644
    Milhouse
    Participant

    Cacao “beans” are not beans; they grow on trees. And do not really grow in pods, any more than pomegranates do.

    #1807685
    AhvasChinom
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    Another proof Avram/Avraham’s family was Sefaradi: Nachor was named after his GF (Even if he wasn’t first)

    #1807944
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Not ALL Sefardim name after the living.

    #1807942
    yehudayona
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    Milhouse, the thing that contains the cacao beans is called a pod. The thing that contains pomegranate arils is not. If, as you say, the criterion for kitniyos is that the seeds grow in a pod, please explain why corn (maize) and sunflower seeds are kitniyos.

    #1807994
    knafaym
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    Actually I’m more inclined to believe that A”A zatzal would abhore the entire concepts of Ashkenazi and Sepharadi especially the way they have been weaponized which btw is Over Lo Tisgodidu. So the joke running through this thread is the dust of an Issur DiOraisa.

    #1807993
    Milhouse
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    What it’s called is irrelevant; what matters is what it is. The thing is clearly not a pod, it’s exactly the same as a pomegranate’s rind. That English-speakers call it a pod is no more relevant than the fact that they call the seed a bean.

    Growing in a pod is not the only criterion. It is sufficient but not necessary. Rice and buckwheat are both kitniyos because they are cooked as porridge, which after all is the reason for the takanah in the first place.

    #1808027
    devny
    Blocked

    What a great proof. You’ve completely convinced me. I will now become sephardic.

    #1808068
    Milhouse
    Participant

    Correction: What something is called can be relevant, but does not define what it is. For instance, the whole takanah of kitniyos was made in the first place because all kinds of cooked grains are called “porridge” (דייסא in Aramaic, קאשע in Yiddish), so if a rice or lentil porridge is permitted then people will think all porridge is, including wheat or barley porridge. So they forbade anything with which porridge is made. And since many of those things grow in pods they forbade everything that grows in pods. But that doesn’t mean that when someone comes along and sees a pomegranate or a cacao fruit and says “Hey, let me call that a pod”, the takanah automatically extends itself to that! Now if people started calling chocolate “porridge”, then we’d have a serious shayla; but they don’t, so we don’t.

    #1808371
    yehudayona
    Participant

    People make porridge out of sunflower seeds?

    #1808583
    Milhouse
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    No, but sunflower seeds grow in pods.

    #1808585
    Reb Eliezer
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    Is mustard a legume?

    #1808591
    yehudayona
    Participant

    Sunflower seeds do not grow in pods. Check out a Youtube video on harvesting sunflower seeds if you don’t believe me.

    #1808649
    Reb Eliezer
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    Mentioned above the Rokeach who says mustard is allowed for Pesach provided not ground in a dish of chometz.

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