[Avodah] The Real Shiurim – They’re Smaller Than You Think

[Professor L. Levine]

From

https://goo.gl/Fx7AAh


Today, many charts outline exactly how much matzah, maror, and wine must be eaten at he Seder. These shiurim, however, are significantly larger than what longstanding minhag requires.


For example, Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, zt”l (a nephew of Rav Simcha Zelig of Brisk), said that Jews in Brisk used a becher that was 70 ml, which is 2.36 oz. Another gadol of the previous generation, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt”l, recounted that when Rav Avraham Chaim Naeh published his sefer on shiurim, Shiurei Tzion, the Jews of Yerushalayim were shocked at how machmir he was (Meged Givos Olam II, Darchei Hora’ah 12). Rav Chaim Naeh’s shiur for a revi’is is 86 grams, or 2.9 oz. (Interestingly, the number 86 is also the gematria of the word kos. The Chazon Ish’s shiur for a revi’is is 150 grams, which is the gematria of the words “kos hagun.”)


See the above URL for more.


Last year I purchased  an inexpensive scale and my grandchildren  used it to weigh out the amounts of matzo and morror  (Romaine lettuce) based on a chart that came from a sefer written by a  rabbi who was an expert in these amounts.  It turned out that the amounts of morror and matzo determined in this manner were considerably less than what we had eaten in previous years.


YL

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