[Avodah] Soft Matza

[Zev Sero]

On 30/03/2012 2:32 PM, 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?

AIUI "belila racha" means a liquid dough, like that for cake or blintzes.
I very much doubt that anyone makes matzos, however soft, like that!
As for whether one could use such a pancake for matzah, from the Ashkenazi
POV I would say no, because it's not hamotzi.  But Sefardim say mezonos on
normal matzos all year, and yet on Pesach they elevate it to hamotzi and
use it for the mitzvah as well as for lechem mishneh, because they say that
on Pesach it has that chashivus even though all year it doesn't.  If so, I
don't see why the same principle couldn't be applied to pancakes.

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