[Avodah] Hasiba, the Raaviya, and a Potential Halachic Sea Change

[saul mashbaum]

RRWolpoe cites the Yerushalmi:

Q; Why must one do hasiba at the seder?
A: Lest one eat STANDING UP like a servant!

RAZWeiss has cited this g'mara several times in his Shabbat Hagadol drashot, and says that this is "l'mayse": one may not be yotze mitzvat achilat matza while standing,. He tells that once his daughter got up during the eating of the matza at the seder to care for her baby who started crying. R. Weiss said that the part of the matza she consumed while standing did not count for mitzvat achilat matza, based on this Yerushalmi.

R. Weiss has also said several times that the obligation to eat 2 k'zaytim for motzi-matza (since two brachot are made on the matzot)  applies *only* to the seder leader who alone makes  birkat hamotzi (according to common practice). The other participants, who say only birkat "al achilat matza", are only required to eat one k'zayit, even l'chatchila. He says that this is l'halacha ul'mayse. He has also written so explicitly in his hagaddah, Minchat Asher, first edition, p.36.


Chag kasher v'sameach.

Saul Mashbaum
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