Halakha: April 2006 Archives

April 10, 2006

One quick halakha before my ride to the airport gets here. This one come from Shulhan Aruch O.C. 461:5:

אם אפו חמץ עם מצה, לא נאסרה אא"כ נגעה בחמץ ונוטל ממקום שנגעה כדי נטילת מקום, והשאר מותר

Rough translation: Matzah baked with hametz is only problematic (i.e. considered hametz itself and thus prohibited on Pesach) if they touched, in which case, cut off from the matzah at the point of contact and the rest is fine. Lest you think this is some Sephardi leniency, here's the Ramo:

מצה שנתכפלה בתנור ודבוקה עד יא שאין שולט שם האש, אוסרים אותה תוך הפסח אבל שאר מצות שבתנור מותרים וקודם פסח אין לאסור רק מקום דבוקה

And just to be sure, the Mishnah Berurah:

כדי נטילת מקום - היינו כעובי רוחב אצבע אגודל בינוני ויש מאחרונים שמחמירין בנעשה תוך הפסח לאסור כולו ולפי מש"כ הגר"א בסקי"ז יש להקל גם בזה

If you'd like to make sense of all this, I recommend looking over the entire siman as well as the Bet Yosef or you could hock your local Rabbi.

Hag Kasher V'Sameach!



April 9, 2006

As some of you may know I'm going to be in Israel for Pesach. It's my first vacation in just about ever, since for several years I have either had the time or money to travel, but not both. So I figure since I might not have the time or access to post over Pesach, I can address something for which I have recently been getting a lot of flack.

Despite my staying in Israel for roughly two weeks, I will be keeping one day of Yom Tov this Pesach.





Meta-YUTOPIA

Valid XHTML 1.0!    Valid CSS!

Site Meter

XML  RSS
ATOM
J-Blogosphere
JRants
Judaism Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory
Blog Directory

Creative Commons License
This blog is licensed under a
Creative Commons License.

Listed on BlogShares

This website is powered by
Movable Type