Gebrokts on the 8th Day - Keeping it Kosher Clip

The first seven days, gebrokts, for many families,  besides chametz, is the second most influential   law in the home. But it comes to the eighth  day, it's still Pesach, but all of a sudden,   matzah balls. There's really a number of points to  that. First of all we know that the eighth day of   Pesach is only mid'rabanan. It's only something  that we keep in Chutz L'aretz. In Israel,   Pesach is only seven days. So because it's  not on the same level we could be a little   more lenient. It's only on gebrokts,  you can't eat chametz. And if you are   Ashkenazi and don't eat kitniot, you can't eat  kitniot on the eighth day. It's only gebrokts,   because it's not that same level. Gebrokts is  a chumra. It's a valid chumra. It's a minhag,   and every minhag people keep is very important.  Pesach is a holiday of minhagim. That's what   it's all about. You can't just walk away  from minhagim, and you shouldn't walk away   from minhagim. But you shouldn't use minhagim  to create this unity in Klal Yisrael. You eat   gebrokts and I don't eat gebrokts, but you're not  less than I am, and I'm not more than you are.   We're all just doing what we think is the right  thing to do. And on the eighth day of Pesach,   we want to show that all these differences are  not important and they all fall away. And gebrokts   should never be used to cause acrimony. It should  never be used to cause disunity in a family. You   could work it out that people can sit at the same  table even if they don't have the same customs.