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

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 06:36:46AM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
: 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...

This minhag is quite old, not "chumerah of the month club". The Peri
Megadim mentions it (Eishel Avraham 464:1), as does the MA (447:20) who
assurs bemashehu.

Garlic is no longer packed in flour, and if we buy it precut, we can
do so with certification that the knives weren't chameitz-dik, so the
minhag is at this point outliving its cause. But then, we aren't even
sure what the cause of the minhag of not eating qitniyos of Pesach was,
none of the candidates still apply, and I still keep that.

Presuming, therefore, there are people who won't be eating garlic this
Pesach no mater what RMS writes or doesn't write, why shouldn't he give
them some impetus to fulfilling their minhag?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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