[Avodah] Having Mishaloach Manos Delivered vis Amazon

[Akiva Miller]

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R' Micha Berger wrote:

> For all the AhS's saying the Rambam must have originally been
> "minim" across the board rather than "manos", the Mechaber
> pasqens 2 manos. And there is no hagah from the Rama saying
> otherwise.
> Which is, again, why I think we are in CYLOR territory.

I'd like to suggest, aliba d'RMB, how this development (from "two manos" to
"two minim") might have occurred. (If he wrote this in his posts, then
apologize for not seeing it.)

But - today being National V'nahapoch Hu Day - I'll begin at the end of the
story.

There is a well-known practice nowadays (I will not call it a minhag, and
AFAIK not a single posek anywhere requires it) that one's basic "two manos"
should be of food that have different brachos. The reason for this (in my
eyes, quite obviously) is because of what counts as two "minim". Is a
chicken wing and a leg two minim or that same min? What of a cookie and a
donut? White wine and red? Two different white wines? Choosing foods of
different bracha removes the confusion.

Similarly, I can very easily imagine confusion over how large a "maneh"
must be. Imagine one piece of roast, and another piece of roast. That could
be two portions for an ani, or a half-portion for a teenager. So it evolved
into "two minim", which simplified things greatly.

Just a guess, of course.

Akiva Miller
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