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*The Torah (Exodus 13:3) prohibits Jews from eating leaven (chametz) during Passover. Technically, chametz is only leaven made from the "five grains": wheat, spelt, barley, shibbolet shu'al (two-rowed barley, according to Maimonides; oats according to Rashi) or rye, although there are additional rabbinic prohibitions against eating these grains in any form other than matzo. | *The Torah (Exodus 13:3) prohibits Jews from eating leaven (chametz) during Passover. Technically, chametz is only leaven made from the "five grains": wheat, spelt, barley, shibbolet shu'al (two-rowed barley, according to Maimonides; oats according to Rashi) or rye, although there are additional rabbinic prohibitions against eating these grains in any form other than matzo. | ||
*The earlier Poskim mention that rice, buckwheat/kasha, millet, beans, lentils, peas, sesame seeds and mustard are included in the minhag <ref> Beis Yosef O.C. 453, Rema 453:1 & 464:1 and Mishnah Berurah 453:4, 7 & 11 </ref> | *The earlier Poskim mention that rice, buckwheat/kasha, millet, beans, lentils, peas, sesame seeds and mustard are included in the minhag <ref> Beis Yosef O.C. 453, Rema 453:1 & 464:1 and Mishnah Berurah 453:4, 7 & 11 </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 </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> | ||
*Iggeros Moshe assumes that peanuts are not kitnios but notes that some have a custom to be machmir. <ref>(O.C. III:63) </ref> | *Iggeros Moshe assumes that peanuts are not kitnios but notes that some have a custom to be machmir. <ref>(O.C. III:63) </ref> | ||
*Among traditional Ashkenazi Jews, the custom during Passover is to refrain from not only products of the five grains but also kitniyot. Literally "small things," such as other grains and legumes. Traditions of what is considered kitniyot vary from community to community but generally include maize (North American corn) <ref> Mishnah Berurah 453:4 </ref>, as well as rice, peas, lentils, and beans. Many also include peanuts in this prohibition, and one source, the Chayei Adam, also includes potatoes in his list, although his opinion is not followed by any large or major groups. Sephardi Jews typically do not observe the ban on kitniyot, albeit some groups do abstain from the use of dried pulses during Passover. | *Among traditional Ashkenazi Jews, the custom during Passover is to refrain from not only products of the five grains but also kitniyot. Literally "small things," such as other grains and legumes. Traditions of what is considered kitniyot vary from community to community but generally include maize (North American corn) <ref> Mishnah Berurah 453:4 </ref>, as well as rice, peas, lentils, and beans. Many also include peanuts in this prohibition, and one source, the Chayei Adam, also includes potatoes in his list, although his opinion is not followed by any large or major groups. Sephardi Jews typically do not observe the ban on kitniyot, albeit some groups do abstain from the use of dried pulses during Passover. | ||
* for a list of kitniyot see http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/kitniot_list/ <ref>http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/kitniot_list/</ref> | * for a list of kitniyot see http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/kitniot_list/ <ref>http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/kitniot_list/</ref> | ||
== Reason for prohibition == | == Reason for prohibition == | ||
