[Avodah] Avoiding Kitniyos in Israel

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:05:30PM +0000, Professor L. Levine wrote:
: My son who lives in EY told me that Ashkenazim have to very careful
: about the products that they purchase for Pesach, since many products
: that are certified for Pesach contain kitnios. The item below reinforces
: this.

...
: Eretz Yisrael: Strauss Cottage Cheese Contains Kitnios
: 
: April 3, 2017- from the Arutz 7
: <http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1248916/photos-eretz-yisrael-strauss-cottage-cheese-contains-kitnios.html>
: 
: "Badatz Mehadrin, the hashgacha of Rabbi Avraham Rubin Shlita, alerts...

I was wondering about this.

Qitniyos is batel berov.

Ah, you may say: but they're intentionally mixing in the qitniyos, there
is no bitul!

So here's my question:
If a Sepharadi makes cottage cheese containing qitniyos, he isn't really
having Ashkenazim in particular in mind. And for him the qitniyos are
mutar. By parallel, a non-Jew mixing 1:61 basar bechalav for his own use
or for a primarily non-Jewish customer base isn't bitul lkhat-chilah, as
a permitted person's intent doesn't qualify as lekhat-chilah.

So, does this Sepharadi man mixing qitniyos in run afowl of the problem
of bitul lekhat-chilah?

Why can't one argue that as long as the qitniyos is a mi'ut of the
cottage cheese, and as long as it's not against the mixer's own minhag
or that of the main bulk of people for whom he is mixing, the food is
permissible for Ashkenazim too?

And does it have to be both the mixer's own minhag AND that of most of
the people the cottage cheese if for? After all, this is minhag, not
pesaq. It's not like an Ashkenazi holds a Saphradi ought to be holding
like us too. What if an Ashkenazi was doing the mixing on a product
where most of the target customer base is Sepharadi?

(Now, add to that mei qitniyos, and whether corn should have been added
to the minhag, the observation that it is primarily NOT made for Ashkenazi
Jews, and ask the same thing about Coca Cola.)

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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