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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

and Rav Shimon, he lived with Rav Shimon Shkaab for a couple of years when he was writing the Shari Yosef, and Rav Shimon used to take a matzah and divide up the matzah to all the people at the Seder, to have a kazayis from the one matzah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

Five or six different kazayis from the one matzah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

And he wasn't a Hasidic Shereba, who was a Baal Meifes, whose matzah was growing.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

He was just giving the matzah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

There was that one-fifth, one-sixth of the matzah equals a kazayis of matzah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

So it is kidai, the truth is, to be a little more machmir on how much a kazayis is,

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

for the first kezais midoraisa on the first night, but not necessarily for the other kezais.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

And as the Mishpura says, we should be machmir for a chatzibetzah on the first kezais, on the first night, and then afterwards, a shlishbetzah would be good enough, a third of a kebetzah would be good enough.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

Again, not going into all of the details of Shiurim, it would take a lot longer to do that.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

Another Seder misconception is that a lot of people think that if you do this, if you just lean into the air, that that's called Haseba.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

Hasebo is actually a luxurious type of sitting.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

They used to sit on these fancy couches at their table.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

And it's really more like a lying down kind of thing.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

But certainly at the very least you have to be leaning on something.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

It shouldn't be something that's very uncomfortable, that's awkward.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

It should be comfortable.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

It should be something that you, at the very least you need to be leaning on a cushion or something like that.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

and not just to lean in mid-air, so that is another misconception.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

Number four on the list, a lot of times women believe that they do not have to eat a sheer kazayis of matzah and marar.

Ten Minute Halacha
Common Seder Misconceptions

I think it's the fault of those of us who are super-machmir in the sheer of matzah that turns the women off from wanting to try to eat a kazayis of matzah, because they look