What has happened in the United States, Levin explained, is a demographic shift in which Jews from Israel, southern Europe and North Africa are living together.
They are transforming the face of the American Jewish community, which is looking more and more like Israel, where the Sephardic Jews are permitted to eat kitniyot.
Golinkin revised his earlier paper, which was aimed at Israel's Ashkenazic Jews, to make a case today for Ashkenazic Jews everywhere to dispense with the custom. The explanation that rabbis are giving to their congregants is that kitniyot are not — and never were — hametz, the five forbidden grains in the Torah: wheat, barley, rye, oats and spelt. But centuries ago, hametz was often found mixed with these grains in the same bins.
Or they were harvested and processed and ground into flour just like hametz. Also, because cooked kitniyot porridges looked very similar to hametz, or because it was customary to prepare kitniyot and hametz together, the custom from the Middle Ages to avoid legumes took root.
In a recent email to her congregants, Rabbi Annie Tucker of Beth Hillel Congregation B'nai Emunah in Wilmette asked: "Why must we still be bound by the restrictive practices of our ancestors? This "foolish" custom, many rabbis say, detracts from the joy of the holiday by limiting the number of permitted foods.
There's a lack of healthy packaged foods and an extremely inflated cost of products under Passover supervision. It causes unnecessary divisions among Jewish ethnic groups. It's not going to change things for me.
What I do makes me feel connected to my parents and grandparents. Jonathan Lehrer, past president of Beth Hillel Congregation B'nai Emunah, said that he and his wife "respect and honor Jewish tradition, but as Conservative Jews, we respond to changing times.
Others say they'll do whatever the rules allow, even though they're still confused. Many couples are split: He wants to add kitniyot, for instance, and she doesn't. Levin has heard the entire range of voices, from "'Thank you, thank you; we've been waiting for this forever' to 'I intellectually understand what the case is that you're making, and I intellectually agree with you, but I don't think I could actually put rice on my Seder table.
And of course, Levin has heard the dissenting opinion. We're proud to be Ashkenazic, and we're not going to cross over to the dark side of kitniyot. Peggy Wolff is a freelance writer. Skip to content. Jonathan Lehrer unpacks his family's heirloom Passover dinner plates Thursday at his Lincolnwood home. Why on this night can we now eat kitniyot? The prohibition of eating matzah on erev Peasach and therefore the extended customs only applies to matzah which can be used for the mitzvah see Egg matzah in early Nisan.
Therefore, it appears that laffa would be permitted since it not only can't be used for the mitzvah, but is actual chametz. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Can sefardim eat lafa before Pesach? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 years, 7 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. I don't know what the source for 30 days is, but the Mishnah Brurah mentions a custom to not eat matzah from Rosh Chodesh. I don't understand the question. What is kosher for sefardim is kosher for ashkenazim. We have different minhagim for how thick it is, but anything that is kosher to use is matza and is forbidden to be eaten on erev pesach.
This sounds like "Can Ashk'nazim eat crackers before Pesach? If it's not matza , what's the question? HachamGabriel, "probably"??? Show 6 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Add a comment. Laffa's are chametz?
As far as I know Why would they not be? Joshwaxman The Mishna Brurah clearly states my translation " But matzah which can fulfill the obligation at night is asur to eat all day of the 14th.
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