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Subject: Re: Re: What is Kosher for Pesach
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Subject: Re: Re: What is Kosher for Pesach
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>> > 
>> > Consider the following foods:
>> > 	Flour Tortillas (usually just flour+water+a little lime)
>> > 	Corn Tortillas (corn+water+lime)
>> > 	Chapti (indian -- I believe whole wheat flour + water)
>> > 
>> The lime causes the maize to swell up like a balloon before grinding.
>> Is it then "leavened"?
>> 
>
>	There are only five grains which, according to halacha, can become
> leavened, and they are: wheat, barley, oats, spelt, and rye ( I might be
> mistaken on spelt, although I think that is the fifth one ). All other
> grains do not become chametz ( leavened ). However, in order to avoid
> problems, the rabbis decided that any grain that is ground into flour
> ( any legume ) should not be used on Pesach.
>
>
>			Eliyahu Teitz.

Actually,  Sefardim  follow the letter of the law and permit legumes and
rice as passover foods.  In fact many of the foods which  Sefardim  make
specifically  for  passover  contain  legumes  and  rice.  Interestingly
enough, Ashkenazim would be able to eat very little which  Judah  haNasi
would  have served at his passover hagadah while he would recognize very
little of what Ashkenazim serve at the hagadah of  passover  (new  world
vegetables  you  know).   Of  course  he  would  be  right at home among
Sefardim.

The situation is even more absurd.  This passover some  sefardi  friends
of  mine  had  a  Russian  Jewish  couple  as guests at the hagadah.  Of
course, they would eat very little of what was specifically prepared for
passover.  Since Sefardim consider comensality extremely important, such
behavior is considered rude and crude but beyond this they brought their
own Lubovitcher matzah which was hadash and therefore 'asur mide'oraita'
until the third day of passover.

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