[Avodah] Gebrochts

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> Thanks to RSZ, who cited this SAhR in a discussion some years back about
> how long ago Ashkenazim started exclusively making crispy matzos.

I must apologise for having confused two things.  As I think I pointed
out later in that thread, and as RCGS has pointed out this time around,
the change the Rav explicitly mentions is not to thin matzos (as I had
originally misremembered) but to quick processing (i.e. 18-minute batches).
It *may* be that the change to thin matzos happened at the same time,
but it's not necessary.  That change may have happened earlier; but I
have other reasons to suspect that it actually happened later, some time
in the 19th century!



> 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.

Depends how long is "that long".  In the previous context we were
talking about 2000 years.  Your original suggestion was that the
Catholic wafer shows that we had thin matzos since the days of Chazal.
That I corrected, because the Catholic wafer probably isn't much
older than 900 years.  But 900 years is still a long time.


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