Kitniyot: Difference between revisions

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# On the other hand, potatoes (see below), coffee, tea, garlic, nuts, radishes and olives and not treated as kitnios <ref> Sha’arei Teshuvah 453:1, Chayei Adam 127:7. Pri Megadim Eshel Avraham 464:1 writes that he doesn't understand why some people don't eat garlic on [[Pesach]] but nevertheless one should be stringent. </ref>
# On the other hand, potatoes (see below), coffee, tea, garlic, nuts, radishes and olives and not treated as kitnios <ref> Sha’arei Teshuvah 453:1, Chayei Adam 127:7. Pri Megadim Eshel Avraham 464:1 writes that he doesn't understand why some people don't eat garlic on [[Pesach]] but nevertheless one should be stringent. </ref>
===Quinoa===
===Quinoa===
# Some say that quinoa is kitniyot, however, if there's a medical issue one may be lenient to use it on [[Pesach]]. <ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [http://www.ou.org/community_services/video/67558 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5769] between minutes 23 and 24 and on [http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 101:30 and 103:30. Rav Moshe Feinstein did not advocate abandoning the custom, but he opposed the tendency to expand the list of forbidden kitniyot (see Igrot Moshe, Orah Hayyim 3. 63).</ref>
# Some say that quinoa is kitniyot, however, if there's a medical issue one may be lenient to use it on [[Pesach]]. <ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [http://www.ou.org/community_services/video/67558 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5769] between minutes 23 and 24 and on [http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 101:30 and 103:30. Rav Moshe Feinstein did not advocate abandoning the custom, but he opposed the tendency to expand the list of forbidden kitniyot (see Igrot Moshe, Orah Hayyim 3. 63). [https://yeshiva-university.zoom.us/rec/play/usAsduuh-283HoLAtASDAPZ9W9S0eq2s0igX-_pez0jkW3EFZFr1M7QRa7Qf9B_vOGt5lyO0vcW9I1-0?startTime=1585760529000&_x_zm_rtaid=CQsocm3ZRaq6pGgFL5OMGQ.1585880286593.75ff95374a21dbfc2f0c45524d508e2a&_x_zm_rhtaid=674 Rav Willig (March 31 2020, min 2)] thought that quinoa is kitniyot.</ref>


== Reason for prohibition ==
== Reason for prohibition ==