[Avodah] Eat Karpas - Leaning?

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:51:30 +0300
"Danny Schoemann" <doniels at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Our Minhag has always been not to 'lean to the left' when eating Karpas.
> > But learning KSA (119:3)this morning, I see that it rules that one
> > should do so.
> >
> > The MB doesn't mention it and I have yet to find any tana demesaye.
> >
> > Can anyone add some light?
> 
> The Sefer Sha'arei Yemei HePessach (on pg 146) says:
> - it's a machlokes of minhogim
> - the Birkey Yosef (473:14) says that per Kabala one shouldn't.
> - the popular minhag is not to lean
> - somebody w/o a minhag should not lean.

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While eating the karpas one should recline (Siddur of Rav Yaakov Emden,
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 119:3, Abudraham).  Some, however, say not to
recline (Shibolei Haleket, contemporary Haggados).  The reason to
recline is obvious: The eating of karpas is meant to symbolize freedom,
and reason indicates that we should therefore recline.  Nevertheless,
it is not standard practice.

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-- Rav David Feinstein, Kol Dodi Haggadad, 9:8

Hag Kasher V'Sameah,

Yitzhak
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