[Avodah] [Areivim] Kitnyos

[Zev Sero]

On Areivim, Eli Turkel wrote:

> In nay case I understand RMF that it all is determined by minhag. I
> don't understand the other poskim that what counts is whether it is
> technically kitniyot for kilyaim even if it was never used for any
> food products until now.
> Given the rule that safek of a rabbinical halacha is allowed many
> poskim take a minhag like kitniyot and add levels of chumrot to it.

And yet the Rema clearly prohibits mustard, because it grows in a pod
like other kitniyot.  Certainly nobody cooks mustard seeds like a grain,
or bakes with it like flour, nor do any of the other supposed reasons
for the gezera seem to apply; according to the same logic that permits
peanuts, mustard should also be allowed, and yet it is not.

I also don't understand those who allow oil of kitniyot, when the Rema
clearly forbids it.  When he permits lighting with kitniyot oil, he says
that we are not worried that some will get into the food, because even
if that happens it will be batel berov.  If it's permitted to add the
oil deliberately to the food, then of course there's no worry that that
will happen accidentally!  The question wouldn't even occur to anyone!




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