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Gebrocht: how does an old person eat matza on seder night
There is a story with the previous Belzer Rebbi that his mother was elderly and could not eat Matza without dipping it in liquid. She originally refused to eat it that way. In order for her to eat the ...
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Chabad custom of not allowing water to touch matzah on Pesach
I gave a Shiur on this over Pesach. Here are my notes:
(Shu”t Mima’amakim by Rav Ephraim Ashri 5:6) Exactly 80 years ago, in the year 5702 (1942), the situation in the Kovno Ghetto had gotten ...
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"Shmubrokhts" - Gebrokhts vs. Shmurah matzot during the week
They are nothing to do with one another. Eating only shmura matzah is a chumra (stringency) to be absolutely sure the flour is not chometz. Not eating gebrokts is a minhag (custom), mainly adopted by -...
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Gebrocht: how does an old person eat matza on seder night
O.C. 461:4 says that bedi'eved (See M.B. #17 that defines outright a sick or elderly person who can't eat dry matzah) may soak the matzah in water and he fulfills the mitzvah of eating matzah.
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Why eat gebrochts on the 8th day?
Does chabad eat gebrochts? I point out that because this is a rabbinic prohibition and a minhag of stringency, the last day of Pesach is used to show that it is not a full prohibition of Chametz. ...
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"Shmubrokhts" - Gebrokhts vs. Shmurah matzot during the week
Everyone eats "shmura" (guarded) matza. The question arises at what point the wheat or the flour must be guarded to ensure that it has not become wet and possibly turned into chametz. Once someone ...
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Do people who don't eat gebrokts have any reason to say "Borei Minei Mezonot" during Pesach?
My advice for Shalosh seudos is to eat dates or drink wine less than 3 reviis (see biur halacha) since the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 208,17 says they are filling and one would be Yotzei sayng Birkas ...
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