<div dir="ltr">from<div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebrochts">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebrochts</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">According to Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik of Vitebsk, the custom originated with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Ber_of_Mezeritch" title="Dov Ber of Mezeritch" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Dov Ber of Mezeritch</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebrochts#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">[2]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">(This appears, for example, in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulchan_Aruch_HaRav" title="Shulchan Aruch HaRav" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Shulchan Aruch HaRav</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">, c. 1800.)</span></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">In fact, the members of some nineteenth century </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews" title="Lithuanian Jews" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Lithuanian Jewish</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> communities deliberately ate gebrochts to demonstrate the permissibility of this practice.</span><sup class="" style="line-height:1;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:nowrap">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> Both the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilna_Gaon" title="Vilna Gaon" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Vilna Gaon</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebrochts#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">[3]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_Moshe_Feinstein" title="Rabbi Moshe Feinstein" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Rabbi Moshe Feinstein</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> ruled that there is no reason to avoid eating gebrochts.</span></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">(no source given)<br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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