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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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4128 total appearances

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Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So you're never going to be able to protect from Chimut.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Rashi and Beitzchavbe is also, you're never going to be able to protect it from Chimut if it's thick.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So if it's a tefach thick, then that's a, well, it doesn't say a tefach, it just says Passover.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Beisul says it's fine, you're allowed to make thick bread on Pesach.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Whoa, we Paschal like Beisul always, right?

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So this looks good.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

The Gemara says, how thick is thick?

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So Rufuna says, thick means a tefach.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So a teffach, that's right, it's about three and a half inches.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

The size of your fist with your thumb on top of it is a teffach.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Your thumb lying on top of it, not sticking out.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

But that's significant.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Our chalas sometimes aren't even a teffach thick.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So Beisul allows even making that, even making Passover, right?

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

So the Gemara says,

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Rav Yosef calls it, Rav Yosef disagrees, and he holds that, no, you can't learn matzah from lechem hapanim.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Because Imam Rube's reason, Yom Rube Sheinan's reason, lechem hapanim obviously was matzah, by the way.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Right?

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

That's where we get the number, tefah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Ashkenazim Eating (Soft) Sefardi Matzos

Lechem hapanim was matzah.