Pesach: Eating Matzah - Part 1 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

anyway let's have a look at that hello a lockerz of layla seder let's have a look at the batter let's start off with the matter let's see what we've got so the area of total mad so that's where the it's a mitzvah that I say it's a deal Raisa tutorial obligation to eat matter it's based on the passer who's obligated everybody men women children over the age of barren bat mitzvah and each other over the age of kin or they should also be eating matter interestingly enough if anybody here is familiar with the concepts of the halacha you'll know that there is a dessert the halacha which says that women are exempt from time-bound positive midst of what's called midst as I say she has none grammar the question over here is why would women be obligated in eating the matter the matter you supposed to eat the matter on say tonight right it's a positive compartment to eat them and it's time down right say tonight that's a night you're supposed to eat them before they should be exempt however it says that because the women are the ones who took us out of Egypt the Scot Nash inted conneaut it was at the righteous women who their their merits were the ones that got us out of Egypt to begin with therefore we have that they have an obligation think the matter as well they're a part that are part of the whole mitzvah as well however the Gomorrah says something else Gomorrah says based on a possible apostle says loiter Carla lovka made Siobhan CEO mean total Oliver matzah that a person at the commandment for eating matzah it says like this that anybody who's forbidden to eat comets is obligated to eat matzah on el aceite that's a deal kids just learning from the pasuk itself right so the men and women and children over the age of iron bar mitzvah are obligated in not eating comments like there's a prohibition against eating comet's comets is leavened right therefore they're obligated in eating the matter as well you're lucky it's a problem that there are technical problems which means I this first of all any child over the age of kimmel so they should not be eating there for sure they should not be eating any hon it's right what is the age of kino if it depends a little bit on the child's abilities but you know five six seven that's about that's about the age there's a there's a separate problem which is what that it's also for a judah own plummets on pacer right so how is his child going to eat on it it's a problem I had a question the other day about a lady who said that her daughter a son has terrible reflux and it took him a long time to find a formula that the child is able to eat child was seven months old living and the they finally found a formula that's made with rice and wheat and that's the only formula they found that he's able to keep down what are they supposed to do with pesach here so like this if you if there's a dinner peacock nefesh over here of any danger to the child's life so fine let me you know let him eat whatever it is that they're giving what I said why I suggested what she should do is like this first of all you owe you which is the largest Cassius authority in the world are giving are giving you know cashiers to all kinds of different products and maybe they owe you can come up with something which might be similar but isn't going to have I told you to get in touch with you to see what you know what it is that they could what can they suggest with regards to formula that might have the same kind of qualities without the problem of the wheat the rice is less of a problem even though right is kidneys and then kidneys is something that Ashkenazim don't eat on pizza kitni Oh says the kid some fighting right KITT Gnaeus is is what what I call legumes right pulses all right so things that puff up when they're when they're when they cooked things like beans and and all different kinds of beans right what else is what else is almost is considered to be kidney as I think accessories kit Nia's rice is kit Gnaeus but there's definitely no problem for a child to eat kitni is even even the ashcan Achilles is not comets and so just to emphasize that very quickly I keep users not comments and somebody who eats kidneys is not eating comments on Pesach and if you've got somebody who has to eat kittitas and you've got people who have all kinds of digestive problems right so for example the celly acts up until not very long ago it was very difficult to get ahold of flour that was good for Sally acts then it would be okay to use kit Nia's based food stuff so if you can find a formula that's only based on cuteness that would be okay that would be really no problem whatsoever yeah we do know the problem was the week it's all right I told you should get in touch with somebody who really know you know people who really know their business when it comes to cashiers and what's available what's not available what's good and what's not good and maybe together they'll be able to come up with something with you mr. Shem is going to allow the baby of a pesar to be able to eat and to keep down with what he eats in all events matter Matz has to be made from the five grains and it's not made for one of the five grains then you can't make a mighty over it and that's a problem it's not a problem for the rest of for the rest of pace that is a problem for Seder night what are the five grains wheat spelt barley oats and rye kotaku Senate sriracha bullets or Al and chiffon those five things are good for making matzo with so for example rice flour is not going to be okay for making that because you don't like MIT over it can you eat right rice flour mutter during pesach for sure for somebody weeds cuteness it's no problem whatsoever right but you can't like a righty over it right so what do you make make make amazonas over it instead for for selling acts many Sally acts are able to they're able to eat spelt which is co Senate and you can get a whole today you can get a hold of mutts as pretty easily that have been made out of flowers that are completely kosher pesach and they are flowers that that are okay there apparently they're okay for those juices what is the problem with flower why does flower have to be kosher place up there's so flower regular flowers being through a process part of the process of regular flower is that it's either it's bleached of its white flower or it's been rinsed in all events it's been rinsed and that's going to be a problem with leavening which is why we need to use flour which is only going to be kosher pizza flour and you won't find regular flour on the on the shelves for copy for pesach what people tend to use is either corn flour or they'll use matzo meal right in place of and so you should just be aware of these things matter needs to be made of only flour and water it can't be made with anything else kind of any kind of additives there is something called matzo ashira mats are sheeran normally has eggs in it you call it egg matter matter she means that the words metal she wrote me ashira means rich right it's got a richness to it it's got a different flavor to it that you can't use it on the Seder night right because I'm say tonight we have to use what's called Liam O'Neill ekam oily is poor man's bread the reason why it's called lack of oneís because it's just flour and water no additives whatsoever the most basic foodstuff possible another reason is called lack of oneís because by the time you paid for your hand bakes Maura mutters that's exactly what you're going to be he'll be you'll be very poor the the Indian of eating lack of oily is that we're trying to tap back into the concept of slavery the even Ezra who lived 900 years ago writes that in his day they used to feed the slaves matter I don't mean that's a light again not handbags preferences but a kind of a kind of the matter why is that because matter is very economical it's just flour and water and it's very filling right you eat matza you know you eat a few sheets of matzah and it'll keep you going you'll be full you'll be full for ages anyway that's a Shearer is not just eggs sometimes you know fruit juice is added in something you've got to stay clear of any matter that has anything other than flower of water on let us say that that's all that we can eat over here what have we got we've got three different times of the matter is going to be eaten once is the mighty matter when we make a mighty and we eat the first time that we the matter in the year on say tonight the second time is the correct answer sandwich that hello introduced of taking matzah and Mauro which is bitter herbs and putting them together and the third time is what's called the afikomen which is the last thing that's eaten on leather Seder and a few common comes from the Greek word of Epicurus Epicurus which is dessert you've got handmade matters and you've got you've got machine made matters handmade mutters around machine man answers are square the difference between them well it's interesting when machines first k when they were first created machines but going back almost 200 years the first matzo machines they were they were a cause of great controversy whether it was possible for a machine to make matter at all one of the provinces and that has to be made with shame mitzvahs matzah and it's not if it's not being done is a machine is doing it the second problem which is a very fundamental problem with regards to matter is the what's left inside of the machine after the after the run has gone through you know every 18 minutes things have to be cleaned out how well are these things being cleaned out they were very primitive these machines to begin with today the matzah machines are incredibly sophisticated and first of all everything is being run not just on conveyor belts because their belts that are covered in plastic and the plastic is just removed after 18 minutes the whole thing is removed the machine cleans itself using hot steam and you know very it's very very vigorous our machine starts shaking to get rid of anything that might be inside of it it steams itself out and then it starts off the process all over again it's interesting I don't know what to tell you what should a person be doing some communities the community mean hug custom is to eat only hand mutters and in some communities the community custom is to eat only machine mutters because they're under the impression of machine monsters are more that they're better than more kosher then the hand matters just so you should know if insertion will stop with this for today but the the three times of the matter is eaten so that there are three different classifications for the matter the first time the wheat the matter would is it muy de llanta that's a deal right so that's a total obligation to eat the matter on the first time we went make a mighty and we make a bracha a loculus matter right it's a very you know Layla Sato is a very special night because we make Broca's an elevator that we don't make any other time in the year the Bravo yeah yeah wait the brass of Allah heelys mad to make a brothel an ocular smaller as well right these are brothers that we don't make any other time during the year so any other time you in the year even during pesach itself if you're going to eat matter you just say I'm going to let them in all right and you don't make a bracha valla class matter but now on LSA we're going to make a bracha because if the minister say we're fulfilling a Torah probation at our obligation to eat matter that's the first time the second time we matter with the correct which is hillel telling us that we should eat the maps and the moral together that is 8 the urban and that's a rabbinical obligation at the third time that we eat is the afikomen and that is a suffolk do writer there's a math Lucas there's a disagreement amongst the various authorities about whether the afikomen is a Torah obligation or whether it is a rabbinical obligation the problem is of course at any time we have what's called a Suffolk deal right anytime that there's a doubt about whether something is at obligation we rule stringent Lee right and that's going to have a lot of bearing over here that's a chef will see tomorrow but that's gonna have a lot of bearing over here about how much matzah needs to be eaten in order to fulfill the obligation more for the first one less for the second one it's a chef that's what we'll talk about tomorrow you