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<font size=3>At 01:29 PM 1/2/2014, R. Akiva Miller wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">R' Yitzchok Levine
wrote:<br><br>
> I have a friend whose parents never wanted their kids and<br>
> grandchildren to come to eat at their home. They
preferred<br>
> to eat in their basement on Pesach rather than go to their<br>
> son for Sedarim.<br><br>
Is there a typo somewhere in this section?<br><br>
The second sentence says that the grandparents are the sort of people who
only eat in their own home, and that is the idea which this thread has
been focusing on.<br><br>
But the *first* sentence seems to be on a different topic entirely. It
seems to be saying that the grandparents never wanted to HOST their
children and grandchildren. To me, that appears to be a bizarre and
unloving relationship, and very unnatural for grandparents.<br><br>
My only guess is that the first sentence expresses the grandparents' hope
that their children and grandchildren would take on the family practice
of not eating elsewhere, even in the home of a very close relative. Am I
close?<br>
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There is no typo. I was pointing out that there are other reasons
why children might not eat in their parents' besides kashrus reasons, and
hence one should not paint with a broad brush and call all those
who do not eat in their parents' home as doing something that is
"menuvaldig."<br><br>
These grandparents wanted to have their sedarim by themselves, and
it had nothing to do with kashrus, AFAIK. (They were
not right wing people. Indeed, most would say they were
MO.) They ate all of their meals during Pesach in their
basement. When their son told me this, I asked him
why. He replied that he really did not know. "This is just
what they do," he said. <br><br>
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