[Avodah] Kitniyot

[Zev Sero]

On 24/03/2013 2:07 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
> But the biggest reason of all is that the inflated shiurim were obviously the best that the poskim could do, lacking the actual olives to compare them to.

Really?!  The Rambam didn't have olives?!  All the geonim and rishonim
that give shiurim (and there are many listed in RACN's Shiurei Torah and
Shiurei Mikveh) didn't have olives?!  How can that be?

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