[Avodah] Gebrochts

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:19:30PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: Rambam uses term "rekik" which implies wafer. See vayikra and tzav that
: has 3 kinds of matzos and I am guessing that rekik is the thinnest. (Also
: l'havdil the Catholic wafer is thin enough to see thru and lichora is
: based upon ancient matza.)

That's where I began last time around, but RSZ corrected me. The Notzrim
haven't been using wafers that long.

And as RnTK already noted, rekikei matzos can soak in oil. Therefore I
would think the word does /not/ imply wafer -- despite its meaning in
Modern Hebrew. I would side with R' Aryeh Kaplan's translation, "flat".
See also the cows in Bereishis 41:19, again -- flat (skinny), not
crispy.

...
: AISI, since we are machmir to have thin crispy matza, we can afford to
: be meikil about the cheshash of unbaked sections...

But we also count lishah toward the 18 minutes, making the whole thing
much more rushed. I can't guess which effect is greater.

:-)||ii!
-Micha

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