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

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:52:42 GMT
"Elazar M. Teitz" <remt at juno.com> wrote:

>  
> <<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.>
> 
>      Pardon my ignorance, but what is the source for this extraordinary claim?  The halacha says that the dough used for baking matzos (of any size) must not be greater than an issaron, but nowhere does it mention that the full dough was to be used for only three matzos. 

"ve'nohagin be'ashkenaz ve'zarfas la'asosan me'issaron zecher le'lahmei
todah" -- Tur 475

"ve'nahagu la'asos shalosh mazos shel seder me'issaron zecher le'lahmei
todah" -- Rema 475:7

"ayyen be'sefer Beis Meir she'mefakfek al ha'minhag u've'camah mekomos
ke'hayom nishtaka ha'minhag" -- MB ibid. 46

> EMT

Yitzhak
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