[Avodah] Rav Moshe Shternbuch - Garlic & Sharp Foods on Pesach

[Prof. Levine]

I present this without comment.

 From http://revach.net/article.php?id=5219

There is a minhag not to eat garlic on Pesach. Rav Moshe Shternbuch
(5:127:10) say that for dry garlic there is grounds to be machmir. He
explains that most people have fillings, crowns, and other dental
implants in their mouths that absorb chometz all year. In order to make
sure they do not make the food we chometz one should not eat hot food
for 24 hours before Pesach. This would render any taste emanating from
the pre absorbed chometz spoiled (Nosein Ta'am Lifgam) and would not
make the food we eat on Pesach chometz.

This however does not help for sharp foods which can become chometz even
from things absorbed over 24 hours prior. Additionally the pressure of
the tooth cutting the food (Duchka D'Sakina) also negates the heter of
Nosein Ta'am Lifgam. Because of this says Rav Shternbuch it is wise to
refrain from eating any sharp foods the entire Pesach.

[Email #2. -micha]

In response to what I sent out [above] a couple of people have asked me,
"What does he do for maror on Pesach given that he suggests that on
not eat sharp foods the entire Pesach. I have to presume that he uses
Romaine lettuce.

I asked, what does he propose one does when Shabbos is Erev Pesach given
that it is a "mitzvah" to eat hot food on Shabbos day, and he says one
should not eat hot food Erev Pesach.

YL