[Avodah] Eating Two Kezeisim of Matza for Motzi-Matza

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
> .<<Since everyone is eating from the same matzot, everyone has the same
> safek which matzah the "al achilat matzah" was made over, so everyone
> needs a kezayit from both.  The distinction between the leader of the seder
> and everyone else only makes sense for us with our tiny matzot.>>
> 
> Depends on who makes the beracha.  On the wine there are different
> minhagim if everyone makes kiddush or else the leader is motzi everyone.
> Samething for homitzi/al achilat matzah each person could have their
> own set but be yotzeh with the beracha of the leader.

That shouldn't make a difference.  Whether they say their own bracha or
are yotzei with the leader's, the question still remains which matzah
the bracha's supposed to be on: the top or the middle.  So they need
a kezayit from each.  But with our matzot, since they're not getting
from either one anyway, the question becomes moot.


> BTW why does Zev call this tiny matzot. Were the old matzot bigger than our
> round hand shmura?

Definitely.  The three matzot were made from an issaron of flour
(a shiur chalah), and the middle one was made bigger than the other two
specifically so that each person at the seder could get a kezayit from
the smaller "half".  That makes them enormously bigger than our matzot.


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