[Avodah] [Areivim] Gebrokts

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:08:17AM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: I can see forbidding something that is permitted,  but not permitting 
: something that is forbidden.

: If those who do not eat Gebrokts are doing it, because they are 
: concerned about chometz,  then how can making Gebrokts be permitted 
: on any of the first 7 days of Pesach...

Um, it's only assur because of minhag. Everyone agrees that in terms of
safeiq, it would be mutar. That's why it's lifnim mishuras hadin and
minhag.

So no one is permitting something prohibited by curtailing the minhag on
day 7. They are prohibiting less of the permitted. Just as you too would
make gebrochts on the last day.


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 01:16:54PM +0000, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis
...
:> 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 same justification would apply to allow cooking gebrochts on the
:> 7th day of Pesach (see Chazon Ish O.C. 49:15).

Only in terms of cooking and hachanah. It still requires saying that
gebrochts is only an issue of eating, the issur kareis, and not bal
yeira'eh.

Otherwise, there would be a lack of consistency allowing bal yeira'h
on day 7 because one may eat gebrochts when chameitz is derabbanan,
on day 8.


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

PS: I want to voice my disappointment with this year's incarnation of the
gebrochts-bashing discussion. Usually we cover more of prior iterations
before we start repeating things already said in this one.

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