On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:46:38 +0000 (UTC), "cindys"
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><moshes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> KarenElizabeth <karenelizabeth3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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>> snip
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>>> For better or for worse, things are getting *more* extreme, not less.
>>> I occasionally lurk in a group that discusses things like do you set
>>> your table before the seder since you have to either change the
>>> tablecloth after eating matzo OR eat it over the equivalent of a feed
>>> bag, lest matzo crumbs fall on the cloth and from there touch some
>>> other food and become gebrokts;
>>
>> The fear, Karen, is not "gebrokts". It's "chometz" as in
>> crumbs from the challah.
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>Sorry, Moshe, but she got it right. (Well, you both got it right, but
you're
>not talking about the same thing). You're talking about shabbos before
>Pesach this year. KarenElizabeth is talking about the seder itself. There
>are definitely groups (Lubavitchers being one of them) who are very
worried
>that if some of the matzo crumbs get on the tablecloth, they may
>inadvertently get wet and become gebrokts. To avoid this problem, they
eat
>the matzah out of a paper bag.
Absurd. May as well use a nosebag.
Eli
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