[Avodah] Fake Matza - Hard Thin Matza is not a Baked Product ... it is not Bread = it is not Matza

[Rabbi Meir G. Rabi]

very thin (Dak Min HaDak) crackers never attain the status of bread no
matter how much nor the circumstances in which they are eaten [Mishnah
Berurah 168:37, see also ShaAr HaTziyun 168:36]

Such crackers/wafers are not deemed to be bread because they have not been
baked but simply dried out.

HaRav Moshe Sternbuch [Tshuvos VeHanhagos 3:73] considers that our modern
day Matza might very well be so designated [no idea why he limits it to
hard machine matzah]

Consider this -
It is clear that a dough that is dried in the sun for example would never
qualify as bread and if freeze or low temperature vacuum dried [so that it
is not at risk of becoming Chametz] could not be used to fulfil one’s
obligation of eating Matzah. It seems that our thin hard Matza, which are
proudly promoted as being as thin as possible and “baked” not in ovens but
in furnaces at such great temperature that “baking” takes mere seconds and
if not promptly removed, will be incinerated - are certainly not Chametz,
but neither are they Matzos.

We might also add, that the dough which has so little water, cannot produce
what the Halacha defines as bread. MDM [Modern Day Matza] is not Matza.

Im Kach NaHagta - Lo Kiyamta .....


Best,

Meir G. Rabi

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