[Avodah] Soft Matza

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:32:04PM -0400, Micha Berger wrote:
: Can matzah for the mitzvah be made from a belila rakah? Okay, it's not
: chameitz, but it is lekhem to qulify as lekhem oni? I could ask the same
: thing about Shabbos -- can you use two baked formerly belilos rakos for
: mishneh lekhem?

Well, just after sending, I found where we discussed whether wraps
(wheat, not corn, flour) are hamotzi. Three consecutive posts (seems to
be the whole thread)
starting at <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol26/v26n260.shtml#01>.

The theory:
    See SA OC 168:8 just to see what it isn't, and to see why 8's
    discussion of belilah rakah doesn't apply, see se'if 15, the MA 40,
    the MB s"q 88-89 and the Bi'ur Halakhah d"h "qemach".

    It would seem that a wrap that has a texture such that it could be
    eaten on its own would be hamotzi. Note that's only about having
    a texture soft enough for the wrap to qualify as terisah, nothing
    about whether it's so bland few would eat it that way.

    Wraps are baked like the MB s"q 88, "de'i lo yahah belilasah rakah
    k"k... kol shebasof asuyah betanor" is a hamotzi. Similarly in 89,
    citing the Rosh: "kivan she'ofin oso beguma umeqabeitz ha'isah
    yachdav" produces bread, hamotzi.

I concluded 3 years ago that wraps are hamotzi despite being belila
rakah, which appears to close my question WRT matzos mitvah.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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