[Avodah] RSZA on kitniyot

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 16/04/17 17:49, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> : He brings that the CA prohibited potatos !! but that this psak was never
> : accepted. because they can't be confused with wheat...
>
> But the CA himself says it's a minhag she'ein hataibur yachol laaemod
> bo. He gives it as a hava amina and rejects it for a different reason
> than the one given.

again, no he doesn't.  We just went through this last week.  He never 
proposed it, even as a hava amina, and never gives a reason against it. 
He merely reports, as a matter of fact and completely without comment 
for or against it, that he heard that in Germany they forbid potatoes 
because over there they make flour from them.


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