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> Since a sweetener is made for taste, it is most certainly not batel in any quantity.<br>
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Why not? Â Kitniyos is batel berov, not beshishim, so why should taam<br>
be an issue?>><br><br>I understand that it is a mchloket if it batel in rov or 60.<br>In general I have trouble understanding the whole issue<br><br>1. kitniyot to begin with was controversial in the days of the ashkenazi rishonim<br>
2. Mei kitniyot is another level of chumra. In fact the Rama never explicitly outlaws it.<br>It is an inference since he talks about oils dripping<br>3. Corn was discovered in the Americas and so was clearly not in the original gezerah<br>
4. According to some shitot kitniyot is batel in rov and as Zev points out doesnt<br>depend on the taste<br>5. kitniyot he-nishtanu is a machloket poskim<br><br>so we have a minhag and several layers of machloket. According to any usual laws of<br>
safek we should be matir. Yet many places look for more and more chumrot.<br>Personally we use Canola oil (a rabbi from Bnei Brak already told<br>me he wouldnt eat in my home for many other reasons so this just adds one more)<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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