[Avodah] Chametz Gamur

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:59:21 -0400 Michael Makovi" <mikewinddale at gmail.com>
quoted RZSero and invited discussion:
>> I'd think looking at the ingredients would be enough for this purpose.
>> Since kitniyot are batel berov anyway, surely one needn't worry about
>> ingredients they didn't feel important enough to list.

> I would be interested in a further discussion on this.

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:22:08PM +0300, Shoshana L. Boublil wrote:
: This year, my sons-in-law did some research of their own, and discovered 
: that some of the labels "for kitniyot only" on packaged  food stuffs in 
: Israel, were there b/c the pans were brushed with oil before baking.  The 
: items themselves contained no kitniyot at all.
: So anyone who does use Mei Kitniyot could have actually eaten these items.

I think this was the kind of situation RZS was envisioning, and why he
mentioned bitul.

I was raising a different problem. Here in the US, there is no KLP for
okhelei qitniyos. So, if the item contains peanuts or mei qitniyos, I have
no hechsher telling me whether or not it also contains an issur deOraisa.

: BTW, this year Rav Ya'akov Ariel made it clear that he doesn't consider 
: Canola oil to be kitniyot, especially for any who have the minhag to use 
: Liftit on Pesach.

Well, the "especially" is no chiddush. Canola is liftit, no?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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