[Avodah] Gebrochts

[Prof. Levine]

At 03:14 PM 4/7/2009, Reb Chaim G. Steinmetz wrote:
>
>  a truly idiotic svara for gebrochts is brought- and refuted- in the
>  Shaarei Teshuva OC460, a woman who saw her neighbor making matza
>  meal  pancakes (sufganin) and thought that it was ok to make regular
>flour
>  pancakes on pesach.and did so....
>   menucha
>
>---------------
>Is it more "idiotic" than what was posted today by someone on Areivim
>that "If one is looking for chumrot I have a better idea. I just read
>that RSZA
>didnt use potato flour because it is too similar to wheat flour. "?
>
>In fact, such a chumrah is already brought from the Rishonim as a chumrah
>of "Balei Nefesh" (the Raavyoh), for the identical reason.
>CGS

Reb Chaim,

I must be misreading what you wrote in your last sentence.

The potato was not introduced to Europe until 1536 ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato ), which is after the time of the 
Rishonim. "Rishonim were the leading 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi>Rabbis and 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posek>Poskim who lived approximately 
during the 11th to 15th centuries."
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishonim )  How could the Rishonim 
bring a chumrah about something that they could not have known about?

YL


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