Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

pachos mitafach, still it's k'dai to be careful about.

If you made pachos mitafach, matzah zeder pachos mitafach, b'di yaved, Mishra Bruh says, b'ferish, you're allowed to eat it.

With that, there's no problem.

If you made more than a tefach, and it's not chametz, you check, and it's not chametz, there's no dough pockets in there, but it's more than a tefach, so Mishra Bruh says, machlok saposkem, whether you're allowed to eat it.

But if it's less than a tefach, then you're allowed to eat it.

But it's still, less than a tefach, we still try not to make.

But how much less than a tefach?

Are you allowed to make the Sephardi Matzahs?

The Sephardi Matzahs are much, much less than the Tevach.

So are you allowed to make the Sephardi Matzahs?

So in Halicha Shlomo, in Seydel El Pesach, in Matzah, when he discussed the Seydel El Pesach Matzah, Petresh Pe'alif in Halicha Shlomo, it says in the Devar Halacha section, The minig of Ashkenazim is to make it as thin as possible.

And an Ashkenazi should never be makel to eat a matzah that's thicker than the normal matzahs.

However, you know, if you have, and they discuss this, what do you do if you have a difficult time eating matzah?

Right?

Should you, can you be makel?

So that's, but he's, Rosh Hashanah says, we have a minag already, the Ashkenazim have such a minag, that we don't eat matzah that's thicker than the thinnest possible matzahs.

So it's the hiddur that we have, that we always try to buy the thinnest possible matzahs.

So isn't it so clear that this is really the Ashkenazi practice, and that this is a hakbada that Ashkenazim are required to have?

As recently as the Mishra Brura, Rav Shachter points out, the Mishra Brura in Taf Pei Vav, on the Halach and Shulchan Aruch, Shulchan Aruch talks about what the sheer is of a kazayis, how big is a kazayis.

So some say a kazayis is a chatzi beitza.