[Avodah] Preparing Foods on the 7th Day of Pesach for Shabbos

[Professor L. Levine]

>From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis


Q. When preparing for Shabbos on the seventh day of Pesach, the following question may arise: May one who eats only Shmurah Matzah on the first seven days of Pesach, but eats non-Shmurah Matzah on the eighth day, cook and bake for Shabbos using non-Shmurah Matzah? Additionally, many people who do not eat gebrochts (matzah or matzah meal which has come in contact with liquids) during Pesach, eat gebrochts on the eighth day. Can one cook food that is gebrochts on Friday, which is the seventh day of Pesach?



A. At first glance it would seem that this is not permitted. The Rama (Orach Chaim 527:20) writes that one who is fasting on Yom Tov (which is permitted under certain conditions) may not cook for Shabbos utilizing an Eruv Tavshilin, since he cannot eat the food on Friday. Similarly, it would seem that one who only eats Shmurah Matzah should not be permitted to cook or bake using non-Shmura Matzah, since he cannot eat the food on Friday.

However, Maharasham (Ha'aros, OC 527) rules that it is permitted. He bases his ruling on a related ruling of the Magen Avrohom (OC 559:13). The Magen Avrohom permits baking dough that is stuck in the cracks of a utensil on Yom Tov, to prevent it from turning into Chametz, even though it is forbidden to eat this dough on Pesach, out of concern that it did not bake completely. The Magen Avrohom explains that since according to the letter of the law, it is permitted to eat the dough, and it is prohibited only as a chumra (stringency), one may bake it on Yom Tov. The Maharsham writes that the same applies here. Since one is permitted to eat non-Shmurah Matzah all the days of Pesach, and eating Shmurah Matzah is only a chumra, there is no problem with cooking non-Shmurah Matzah on Yom Tov.

The same justification would apply to allow cooking gebrochts on the 7th day of Pesach (see Chazon Ish O.C. 49:15).


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