[Avodah] Kazayyit size

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re: R'AM's <<I see the numbers, but I do not understand 
them. Is someone suggesting that we know how thick the 
matzah of R' Chayyim Volzhiner was? ..>>

The assumption of 1.8 mm thickness was simply a means to 
obtain a diameter of a round matza when knowing the volume. 
R' Greenfield measured a number of hand matzas and took that 
number as an average.  Using it, he then drew matzas with 
diameters corresponding to the different shitot for 
comparison.
If you take a thicker matza, like the commercial unbreakable 
ones, the diameters will be smaller but they can still be 
compared.  If you make matzas paper thin and subject to 
breakage like I, my sons, grandsons, and one greatgrandson 
do, the diameters would, of course, be larger. (On erev 
Pesach we carry them in a Pizza box. You should see the 
looks we get.)

Re: <<The reference to "some years ago on the list" might be 
referring to the post at 
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol04/v04n019.shtml#05  But if 
so, it offers even less data than this post does.)>>

There were a number of postings. In one of mine, I listed 
the various volumes just as I did now. In another, 
commenting on the new large zeitim,  I mentioned the CS 
shita. He did not swallow the 2 zeitim little by little but, 
chewed and gathered them in one cheek after which he 
swallowed the entire amount all at once. Try putting two 
whole matzas or even one whole matza in one cheek and then 
swallowing it all at once.  Perhaps a Jewish pelican might 
succeed.

David