[Avodah] kitniyot

[Eli Turkel]

<< And who says rapeseed wasn't in the original minhag, at least in theory,
as something that we wouldn't eat on Pesach if it were edible?
 And who says rapeseed
wasn't in the original minhag, at least in theory, as something that we
wouldn't eat on Pesach if it were edible?>>

RMF says peanuts and cottenseed oil  were not prohibited.
Why should rapeseed be different than cottenseed both are inedible and
used in modern oils only by new technology (canola oil goes back to the 1970s)

Besides there never was a formal gezera to outlaw kitniyot as we see rishonim
like Rabbenu Yechiel from Paris and others wouldn't have disagreed.
Since this is just a minhag that developed over time how could it
include nonedible
foods? ie there cant be a minhag to not eat inedible foods.


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Eli Turkel