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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org><BR>: I wonder --
hashkafically speaking, now -- if Pesachdig blintzes, pasta, <BR>: and
rolls do not defeat the entire meaning and spirit of Pesach.
[--TK]<BR><BR><BR>....there is no one authoritative answer to "the entire
meaning of spirit<BR>of Pesach". </FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><BR>....Me, I'm uncomfortable with the implication in your words that
avoiding<BR>chameitz is about deprivation. It would be -- again, to my way
of<BR>looking at things -- a weird feature for a week in which I am
obligated<BR>to rejoice.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Micha
Berger
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<DIV>Pesach is not about deprivation, but about eating /different/ food than you
eat the whole year. The very fact of eating /different/ food makes you
aware that something unusual happened, something we want to remember every year
and that we want our children to remember. I don't have any halachic
problem with "fake chometz" that is actually Pesachdig, but if you eat virtually
the same food on Pesach that you eat all year -- blintzes, pizza, pasta,
hamburger rolls -- you are not feeling the difference between Pesach and the
rest of the year. Indeed you are trying to obliterate that
difference.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mah nishtana halaylah hazeh? -- if nothing is different?</DIV>
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<DIV>Here is a personal memory: my grandmother a'h always had coffee
perking on the stove, in an old-fashioned coffeepot with a glass bubble on
top. Her apartment always smelled of coffee. As a result, to
this day, when I walk into Starbucks and breathe the air, warm waves of
nostalgia wash over me, and my grandparents seem to be sitting in every
Starbucks.</DIV>
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<DIV>So you might think that what you eat makes no difference to anything and
isn't related to the holiday in any important way but human experience suggests
otherwise.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
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