[Avodah] Kazayyit size

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:18:58PM -0400, Saul Guberman wrote:
: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:47 PM, D&E-H Bannett <dbnet at zahav.net.il> wrote:
: > 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...

: I don't understand this.  Isn't the mitzvah to "eat matza on that night"?
: How is this derech achilah?  How can you make a bracha & then eat this
: way?

It's a problem with achila gasa. Which is why this chumra can't be
literally "at once", it would turn out to be a huge kulah -- thus opening
the door for the Steipler's suggestion.

I would think that if you're eating a large kezayis, that implies a
large beitzah and a large peras -- and therefore a large kedai achilas
peras in which to eat it.

In fact, one /kezayis/ per /kedai achilas peras/ would be the same ratio
regardless of the shitah -- differences would cancel out. And so, relying
on a large kedai achilas peras will be no kulah even if the kezayis were
smaller than you're assuming. Just eat the first Vilozhiner kezayis in
a Vilozhiner KAP, etc... by eating at a slow but steady speed.

Last, doesn't "at once" always mean tokh kedai dibur, not one gulp?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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