[Avodah] Karpas/Davar shetivulo bemashkeh

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

> He doesn't mention a bracha achrona after the fourth cup either, but
> obviously one makes one.  Perhaps he doesn't mention it because it
> needn't be said then; one may eat and drink during the hagadah, in
> which case he bracha achrona would be said before washing.  Similarly,
> since one may drink water after the seder, perhaps that's why he
> doesn't mention the al hagafen; if one intends to drink water then
> one wouldn't say it until afterwards.
Zev Sero

Some nos'ei keilim note the omission of borei nefashos as indicative
that Ramban holds no bracha acharona on karpas despite kezayis.

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Your questions are good. But IIRC I read this peshat many years ago in
an article on the seder

If not, then consider it my hiddush.

I am not denying that there may be other reasons to eat less than a
kzayis karpas, I am adding that this avoids a sfeik bracha on washing

Of course SA says s'feik bracha all year round due to tosafos. But aisi
this minhag is oldr then SA's psaq and I think we are retrofitting our
halachah back to an older minhag.

By avoiding kezayis even the Rambam would not make a bracha on washin
on karpas AISI

Gutn Mo-ed
RRW
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