[Avodah] [Areivim] Kitnyos

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
>> 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!

> The heter for kitniyot oil is based on the assumption that no water
> is added in the process. In this case even wheat would not become
> chametz! The strange thing is that kitniyot is treated stricter than
> chametz!

Once again, the Rema was just as aware of this as we are, and yet
he clearly held that kitniyot oil is forbidden.  And who says that
no water is used in the production of oil?  I find it a bit hard
to believe that *all* kitniyot oil, or even most, is produced
without the kitniyot coming into contact with water.


> As for mustrad wants that becomes the minhag it is included.
> RMF and  other say that anything not included in the original custom
> like peanuts is not included later even if it is technically kitniyot

That can't be true, because corn was not in the original gezera,
and yet everyone agrees that "terkishe veitz" is forbidden.  The
same goes for soybeans: unknown in Europe at the time of the original
gezera, and yet clearly included.

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