<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-R' Turkel kindly mentioned some Torah Sheb'al Peh of Rav MF Ztz"al and with forgiveness of others, I will give you my sleep-deprived comments. </span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><<<1) Is "shemen kik" (castor oil?) kitniyot? </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> no </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">standard minhag to prohibit </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">minhag not to use it</span></div>
<div>1-A: DW heard from the Chernobyler Rebbe of Boro Park, retired chaplain of Maimonides Hospital, that RMF said - "every Chumraa iis a Kula". Stringent one direction means lenient in many others. If I would have known this when I was young....</div>
<div>1-B: Name dropping, Rav Nachum E Wachtfogel quoted a historian who heard from Rav Mendel Zaks the Chafetz Chaim's son in law: a lady came Erev Pesach with a roasted chicken who had a grain baked inside, which is/was standard minhag that it it Assur. the CC was Matir - he said it was Kosher. The shocked Son in law asked why? CC answered realisitically - let us say I forbid it - she tells her spouse the chicken was Treif, he beats her up, screams at her, the entire Yom Tov is ruined. Better to [rely on the leniency on the kernel of granin". Rav NEW says he does not believe it, but to my ears it is very similar to other practical applications of understanding human nature by the CC.</div>
<div>1C: ==The debate on Kitniyos/ oil was on a very high level and I enjoyed it very much. </div><div>1D: Segue to Yoshon: From one praise-worthy post to another, on the Alter Rebbe struggles in the Yoshon issue, was well written and gratifying to see. SomFor those who share my fascination, the "Vadai Assur" to "Almost Muttar" metamorphasis of the Yoshon quesion is "sui generis" Unique/ one of a kind). approach the Judicial History of this is unique. Back on track, Yoshon in Tosfos Kidushin is not controversial enough to be worth mentioning. Raaviya"h (Bonne near the Rhine River)has the question and refuses to be Meikeil, Rav Yitzchak Or Zarua (Prague - collator and direct student of RAVYA) makes (Chutz La'aretz and Shel Lo Yehudi) Drabanan, and the new-fangled editions of Shut Rav Chaim Or Zarua allow it with a Sfeik Sfeika that I challenge all the jousters to explain rationally. The practicality was large numbers of starving people and no other solution in a very much pre-industrial economy.. </div>
<div>1E: Generally German Psak was the most "machmir" - except such cases as R' Baruch who elicited a strongly phrased reply because he wanted to Assur a Get smuggled by non-Jews over enemy lines. </div><div>
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><<<2) ....Nuts to children an hour before the seder - this is a context related advice - so the principle is universal, while the specifics are regional and temporal. </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><<<3) 2 things that that we are not able to do today - </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">a) drink a reviit of wine in one sip - some Purim after-effects here. He surely meant not swallowing the Matza "in one gulp:. I have seen a strong strapping youth have his face go red trying to eat a gigantic quantity of Matza at once. The MB already mentions the potential of a normal person swallowing 3 Olives at once. Here the point is that if you have a thousand year old olive tree - you will see olives quite small, I once tried to eat an egg in 16 bits but was unable to make sufficiently small bites. Rav David Bar Chaim shows all the agricultural possiblities. </span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">b) to draw out the dalid of echath th th th th - likein Teimanim to this day</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">David Wacholder<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:dwacholder@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwacholder@gmail.com</a><br>
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