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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: What is Kosher for Pesach
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 13:17:49 EDT
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> 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.
> 

	According to the Ashkenazim the letter of the law now prohibits
 rice and legumes, so please stop trying to make Ashkenazim look as if they
 do not follow the letter of the law.


> 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.
> 

 	I cannot condone the actions of the Lubavitcher. However, the host
 should have realized the potential problem of inviting an Ashkenazi to the
 Seder.

	One last point. Why do you assume the Ashkenazim to be so unversed
 in the Torah as to permit the eating of chadash ( the Torah prohibits
 the eating of grain which had not taken root by Pesach. The grain planted
 in thewinter takes root by Pesach and is  therefore permissable. The 
 summer wheat, however, is prohibitted until the  second day of Pesach.
).
 Why Yakim thinks that Ashkenazim are unaware of this law perplexes  me. 
 Surely, Ashkenazim can read the Torah as well as S'faradim,  and are as  
 careful of its  prohibitions  as much as S'faradim. In fact, in America 
 today there might not be a problem of chadash at all, since the  wheat
 harvested in the winter, might not come to  market until after pesach.


				Eliyahu Teitz.