[Avodah] Rav Yoel Ben Nun on kinyiot

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

https://www.facebook.com/yonirosensweig/posts/1716376748390917

Rac Yoni Rosensweig quoting Rav Yoel Ben Nun on kinyiot.

Summary: The primary reason for the gezira is to prevent people from 
mistakenly eating chametz. Finding chametz in the kitniyot is a 
secondary reason only. Therefore the irony of today's world in which the 
market is flooded with chametz substitutes is tremendous. The rabbinate 
actually had to put out a warning about certain wafflim (wafers) that 
were chameitz but were put in KLP packaging.

The upshot of this mistaken approach is:

*kitniyot products (eg oils) should be kosher

* no one should touch the substitutes

I would add that the need for the chameitz substitutes adds fuel to the 
anti-kitnyiot fire (See? even you people can't go a week based on a real 
KLP diet).

Ben