tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862937828866501223.post8913654162871471217..comments2024-03-11T05:16:47.229-04:00Comments on Jewish Treats: Kitniyot and Gerbrouchts...Oh You Ashkenazim!Jewish Treatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211159282308638591noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862937828866501223.post-57679023366746605662009-04-24T15:42:00.000-04:002009-04-24T15:42:00.000-04:00I appreciate the excellent way you provided the in...I appreciate the excellent way you provided the information. I do wonder, however, whether it is time to put some of these rather odd traditions aside.<br /><br />You note that the rabbinic decree regarding Kitniyot because these products are often stored together with chametz grains, making it difficult to ensure that there is no chametz mixed with the products. Also, when kitniyot are ground into flour, the untrained eye could mistakenly think that this it is real flour, giving the impression that such flour is permitted on Passover.<br /><br />While this might have been a useful decree several hundred years ago, does it make sense now?<br /><br />Gebrouchts are avoided for fear that additional fermentation may occur when the matzah and liquid are combined.<br /><br />These traditions were not agreed to when they started and are not agreed to now. We are telling people to adjust to decrees decreed by the equivalent of the municipal politicians of the day.<br /><br />It is time to review. Like many Ashkenazis in Israel, I think the first place to start is Kitniyot. <br /><br />Next year - Chicken, roast beef AND sushi!Leader of the Curmudgeon Wing of the Liberal Partyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279691141142507929noreply@blogger.com