[Avodah] Chrein

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, February 22, 2007 10:59 am, R Saul Guberman wrote:
: I had been told that there are "problems" with Ashkenazim using soft
: matzah on Pesach.  Could you enlighten me.  They sell soft matzah in
: my neighborhood.

This isn't the first time we discussed it.

RHSchachter said there is absolutely no problem. It was reported here, and I 
double checked with him before acting lemaaseh.

R' Zev Sero brought an indication from the SA haRav that cracker-style matzos
weren't all that old when it was written. He also brought other ra'ayahos --
matzos were 1 tefach thick, made from an issaron of flour, enough for
everybody to get a kezayis without supplementing "from the box". See
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol12/v12n128.shtml#16>. So, it's not all that
ancient for Ashkenazim either.

As for preferable... How can one say "kein asah Hillel" and make a sandwich
when one has the ability to actually make a wrap, just as Hillel did?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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