[Avodah] Issur Qitniyyos - Sources

[Michael Makovi]

> I vaguely recall someone adding "dayssa" as a concern. Is there a mekor
> for this [viz. kitniot]
> RRW

The Smak, Mitzvah Resh Kaf Gimel, speaks of them being "maaseh
kadira". He also speaks of them being d'migan, perhaps "grainy", as in
powdery and stored in silos, adding that one can make bread from them.
His constant refrain is that people will confuse hametz and kitniot,
not being learned enough to distinguish. He says that only in the time
of Hazal could they easily tell between rice and real grain; today, he
says, laypeople aren't so learned, and the average layman cannot tell
the difference. Sometimes, one wonders about the Haredi perception of
all the laymen in the past being so much wiser than we are now.

He says nothing about their growing nearby or being stored in the same
sacks. It's all based, according to him, on people confusing hametz
and kitniot.

His reasoning seems entirely inapplicable to whole unground kitniot,
such as beans. No one would ever confuse a whole solid bean with wheat
flour, or mistakenly make bread from whole unground beans. On the
other hand, he says laymen cannot tell the difference between rice and
wheat, but really, is this not true only of rice flour?

Michael Makovi

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