[Avodah] kitniyot

[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

R' Marty Bluke wrote:

> There is no question that when Moshiach comes the division
> between Sefardim and Ashkenazim basically will go away. The
> Sanhedrin willl pasken the halacha and there will be no
> machlokes.

This is news to me. There is no machlokes here to be paskened.
Everyone agrees that the halacha allows even rice to Ashkenazim. It is
all minhag. Even if the Sanhendrin would want to, I don't know where
they'd get the authority to do away with minhagim.

On the other hand, if they *do* have the authority to do that, then
how can we know which way they'd pasken? Maybe they'd impose kitniyos
in the Sefardim!

> The Dati Leumi community is much less segregated between
> sefardim and Ashkenazim. There are no ashkenazi or sefardi
> yeshivas and there is quite a bit of "intermarriage". If your
> daughter marries a Sefardi do you suddently not go to her for
> Pesach because she eats kitniyos?

That depends on your posek. By my memory, many poskim, including among
the DL, hold that one can eat from the keilim, but to avoid actual
kitniyos. And many other shitos in both directions.

> People realize the hypocrisy of not eating kitniyos while
> eating kosher l'pesach pretzels.

I was arguing strenuously against this until a few hours ago, when I
was reminded that Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach held this way too.
Perhaps I have overdosed on inoculations of matza meal cake and matza
meal pancakes, and I cannot see myself ever sharing this view. But
having seen RSZA's words, I cannot claim that it is only the little
people who say this - it's the big guns too. And I would be indebted
to any listmembers who would quote other gedolim on this topic.

Akiva Miller
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