[Avodah] Matza made with < 50% rice or corn

[Meir Rabi]

Thank you R Micha for the link to the article in JA by Rabbi Y Luban; in
which he says, "Kitniyot are prohibited because they resemble the five
grains. It follows that kitniyot should be treated like the five grains. If
kept dry or baked within eighteen minutes, kitniyot should be permissible.
Indeed, this is the position of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), as
stated in Shulchan Aruch Harav."

There are many who protest against this but it is interesting that the ShO
H, says that adding Kitniyos to food is Assur, as Zev pointed out in his
related posting, since one is being Mevatel an Issur in the first instance.

Now this appears to be a little contradictory, on the one hand it is Muttar
to cook Kitniyos within 18 minutes but it is Assur to add Kitniyot to a food
that will be cooked within 18 minutes?

I wonder if the Issur is only to add it to potatoes lets say which may NOT
be cooked within 18 minutes. However it MAY be added Matza which will
certainly be baked within 18 minutes.

Furthermore, the Issur of Ein Mevatlin would probably NOT apply here. These
Matzos that are made with rice or corn are made for those who DO eat
Kitniyos. Now once they are made there can be no Issur for one who does NOT
eat Kitniyos to eat these Matzos since the Kitniyos are less than half and
not visible.
For example, if we are baking a potato kugel on Pesach and add inadvertently
rice flour to the mix, as long as it is less that half and not visibly
discernible, we may eat it on Pesach.
If we bake the Kugel for our neighbour who DOES eat Kitniyos, we are
permitted to rice flour. And if our neighbour wishes to share a piece of
that Kugel, we are not transgressing Ein Mevatlin. Ein Mevatlin is a din
that applies to the manufacture. The prohibition of eating such foods is
only a penalty for having transgressed the prohibition of defying the rules
of Chazal. But here we have not defied their rules.

BTW the same is true about chocolate made with Lecithin. It is made not for
us who do not eat Kitniyos on Pesach, but for all year round use or for
Pesach consumption for those who DO eat Kitniyos.
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