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Badatz Mehadrin, the hashgacha of Rabbi Avraham Rubin Shlita, alerts consumers that while during the year, Strauss brand cottage cheese is under its hashgacha and is mehadrin, this is not the case on Pesach as the product contains kitnios.
This is especially important for many if not most consumers would not think to check for kitnios in cottage cheese.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Can someone (knowledgeable) explain this? Even if it had contained a small amount of chometz gamur before pesach, kulei alma lo pligi that it would be battel. Why should anyone make a fuss then about kitniyose? Is there someone out there that believe that (contrary to the mechaber, rema, etc) that in lach b’lach lifnei hapesach it is not batel, or that chozer vni’ur? Is there a reason we should be more machmir in kitniyose? Any knowledgeable explanation would be appreciated. Thank you.
M,
You make good halachic sense, but I believe that we are now in the world of neurotic chumros when it comes to Pesah.
Maybe it’s davfar hama’amid
*davar
which is not batel all year
It doesn’t bother me so much if many people choose to exercise “extreme caution” when it comes to Pesach. You want to do libun chamur on an object that doesn’t even require hagalah? Fine!! You want to avoid water that’s ever been in the same room as chometz? Fine! What I don’t understand, though, is why someone who is ostensibly knowledgable and in a position of providing general policy to a large group of people would go out of his way to tell people to be careful about something which is a non-issue. Maybe someone here can provide some more substantive explanation.
Ingredients that are added deliberately to accomplish something, are not battul. Depending upon why they are added, it could be lekula alma not batul, or a mochlokes harishonim. If they are added for flavor, for instance, they are lekula alma not batul.
There is a need to assure that for the small number of yidden who are not already 100 percent stressed out by this nonstop barrage of information on what is and is not deemed kosher l’pseach under the hashgacha of the most hachmir rabbanus, we provide new issues to worry about. There is something to be said about the simplicity of life in the Alte Heim where there was not much opportunity to agonize over the kashruth of a chicken, a bag of potatoes and where all matzos were hand made.
Mo’ options, mo’ problems.
Who even likes cottage cheese?
Ok, it sounds like perhaps davar hama’amid would be chozer vni’ur. I would have thought that this would not be an issue by kitniyose, but I guess some think otherwise.
On second thought — is the point being made that even though the hashgacha says “kasher l’pesach”, it’s a problem? or was there concern that someone might assume it was kasher l’pesach, but it’s not? If the second, then I guess I’m surprised that people would buy food without an explicit “kasher l’pesach” printed on it.