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<p><a href="https://goo.gl/Fx7AAh">https://goo.gl/Fx7AAh</a></p>
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<p>Today, many charts outline exactly how much matzah, maror, and wine must be eaten at he Seder. These
<em>shiurim</em>, however, are significantly larger than what longstanding <em>minhag</em> requires.</p>
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<p>For example, Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, <em>zt”l </em>(a nephew of Rav Simcha Zelig of Brisk), said that Jews in Brisk used a
<em>becher</em> that was 70 ml, which is 2.36 oz. Another <em>gadol </em>of the previous generation, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach,
<em>zt”l</em>, recounted that when Rav Avraham Chaim Naeh published his <em>sefer</em> on
<em>shiurim</em>, <em>Shiurei Tzion</em>, the Jews of Yerushalayim were shocked at how
<em>machmir</em> he was (<em>Meged Givos Olam</em> II, <em>Darchei Hora’ah</em> 12). Rav Chaim Naeh’s
<em>shiur</em> for a <em>revi’is</em> is 86 grams, or 2.9 oz. (Interestingly, the number 86 is also the
<em>gematria</em> of the word <em>kos</em>. The Chazon Ish’s <em>shiur</em> for a
<em>revi’is</em> is 150 grams, which is the <em>gematria</em> of the words “<em>kos hagun</em>.”)</p>
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<p>See the above URL for more.</p>
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<p>Last year I purchased an inexpensive scale and my grandchildren used it to weigh out the amounts of matzo and morror (Romaine lettuce) based on a chart that came from a sefer written by a rabbi who was an expert in these amounts. It turned out that
the amounts of morror and matzo determined in this manner were considerably less than what we had eaten in previous years.</p>
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