[Avodah] kitniyot

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:  
> From: Zev Sero zev at sero.name <mailto:zev at sero.name>

>> Cottonseed is completely out of the question, because it grows on a
>> tree, and everyone agrees that tree fruit are not included.
                 

> I have no problem using cottonseed oil on Pesach but I wonder if it's 
> true that it "grows on a tree."  It grows on a bush that dies (?) maybe 
> like a banana?  If you could eat cotton would the bracha be ha'eitz or 
> ha'adamah?

Ha'etz.  It's a tree.  Tzmar *gefen*.  Nothing to do with a banana plant,
which is not in any way a tree.

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Zev Sero                      The trouble with socialism is that you
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