<div dir="ltr">I note opposite trends with respect to kiniyot<div>One rabbi in my time gave a shabbat hagadol drasha on the obsession with kiniyot. Among other things he said there is absolutely no problem with canola oil. The rabbi of my shul agrees as well.</div>
<div>In general I find that it is becoming quite popular in Israel though the american kashrut groups dont allow it.</div><div><br></div><div>OTOH I have seen more notes from some rabbis that if a sefardi cooks in a pot kitniyot an ashemazi cannot use food cooked later in the pot without any kitniyot without kashering the pot. Rav Avraham Yosef was very upset at such a psak. He mentioned that when he grew up many famous rabbis came to visit them on Pesach and all of them would eat the food served to them (without kiniyot) even though it was cooked in their pots. In fact several poskim say that even if kitniyot is cooked in the pot an ashkenazi only needs to take out the kitniyot and eat the rest.</div>
<div>Nevertheless as I said some poskim are very machmir.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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