[Avodah] Matza on Pesach Sheni

[saul mashbaum]

RDavid E Cohen about eating matza on the 14 th of Iyyar, which RZS suggested may be assur (as possibly enacted by some future Sanhedrin)
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On Pesach Sheni, one eats matzah only as a din in the korban Pesach -- "al
matzos umrorim yokheluhu."  There is no independent chiyuv to eat matzah on
that night, and no isur chameitz.  Hence, there is no real mitzvah of
akhilas matzah that one would want to do with appetite, and no relevant
analogy to "bo`eil arusaso beveis chamiv."

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I am very inclined to believe that RDEC is correct in this. 
Somewhat off topic, but a very interesting pshat in "kol haochel matza erev Pesach keilu bo`eil arusaso beveis chamiv" is that the latter does the action before nissuin, which are accompanied by sheva brachot. The matza leil haseder is eaten after saying sheva brachot: 1) hagafen 2) mkadesh Yisrael vhazmanim 3) shehechyanu 4) haadama 5) asher gaalanu 6) hamotzi 7) al achilat matza. Thus one who eats matza before the seder is skipping sheva brachot, as is bo`eil arusaso beveis chamiv. 
I don't know who says this.
A quibble: when the seder is moztaei Shabbat, there are two more brachot said: ner and havdala. However, one may say that these brachot, although said at the seder, are not part of the seder per se
A further observation is that this vort goes better according to the Sfardic practice, according to which IIUC hagafen is not said over the second kos. Otherwise we have 8 brachot, and would have to come up with some reason that ine of the brachot  "doesn't count". Maybe the origin of the pshat is Sfardic.
Saul Mashbaum
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