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# There's many opinions about the size of Matzah needed for the Seder: | # There's many opinions about the size of Matzah needed for the Seder: | ||
* Chazon Ish holds that for matzah one should consider a Kezayit to be 50 cc. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 486:1 </ref> | * Chazon Ish holds that for matzah one should consider a Kezayit to be 50 cc. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 486:1 </ref> | ||
* Rav Moshe Feinstein holds that for Matzah one should consider a Kezayit to be 43.5 cc which is the equivalent to 2/3 of a board of machine Matzah. <ref> Halachos of Kezayis (Rabbi Bodner pg 91), Rav Yisrael Belsky on [[http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771]] between minutes 30:30 and 37 endorsed this opinion but added that if one is able it's preferable to have the larger amount similar to the Chazon Ish's | * Rav Moshe Feinstein holds that for Matzah one should consider a Kezayit to be 43.5 cc which is the equivalent to 2/3 of a board of machine Matzah. <ref> Halachos of Kezayis (Rabbi Bodner pg 91), Rav Yisrael Belsky on [[http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771]] between minutes 30:30 and 37 endorsed this opinion but added that if one is able it's preferable to have the larger amount similar to the Chazon Ish's [[Kezayit]]. </ref> | ||
* Rav Chaim Noeh holds that for Matzah one should consider a Kezayit to be 27 cc. <ref>Midot VeShiurei Torah pg 184, Piskei Teshuvot 486:1 </ref> | * Rav Chaim Noeh holds that for Matzah one should consider a Kezayit to be 27 cc. <ref>Midot VeShiurei Torah pg 184, Piskei Teshuvot 486:1 </ref> | ||
# According to Ashkenazim, even though the widely accepted measurement of the Kezayit is according to Rav Chaim Noeh <ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 6, Birur 1, pg 221) in name of Rav Elyashiv and Rav Shlomo Zalman </ref> for the mitzvah of eating Matzah one must be strict to hold a Kezayit of the Chazon Ish. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 9:8 </ref> | # According to Ashkenazim, even though the widely accepted measurement of the Kezayit is according to Rav Chaim Noeh <ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 6, Birur 1, pg 221) in name of Rav Elyashiv and Rav Shlomo Zalman </ref> for the mitzvah of eating Matzah one must be strict to hold a Kezayit of the Chazon Ish. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 9:8 </ref> | ||
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# Someone who is sick and can’t eat so much Matzah can use the Kezayit evaluated according to a third of a KeBaytzah which according to Rav Chaim Noeh is 17.3 cc. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 486:1, Halichot Shlomo (pg 214 note 55) </ref> | # Someone who is sick and can’t eat so much Matzah can use the Kezayit evaluated according to a third of a KeBaytzah which according to Rav Chaim Noeh is 17.3 cc. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 486:1, Halichot Shlomo (pg 214 note 55) </ref> | ||
===Crumbs which were caught between one's teeth=== | ===Crumbs which were caught between one's teeth=== | ||
# What stays between one’s teeth isn’t counted towards the | # What stays between one’s teeth isn’t counted towards the [[Kezayit]], however, that which is in one’s gums is counted towards the Kezayit. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 486:1, Natai Gavriel (vol 2, 91:7) </ref> | ||
===The more the better=== | ===The more the better=== | ||
# There’s a mitzvah (which according to some is Deoritta) in eating more Matzah than the required amount. <Ref>Maharal in Gevurot Hashem chapter 48, Bach 472, Mikrei Kodesh siman 48, Sh”t Har Tzvi 2, and Natai Gavriel (vol 2, 90:26) hold that there’s a mitzvah of eating Matzah as much as one eats even beyond the actual requirement. See also the Emek Shelah (Yitro 53:4). Hagadat Be’er Miryam (pg 53) writes that another reason to eat more Matzah is because there’s a big confusion in the amount necessary and Matzah is a mitzvah Deoritta. </ref> | # There’s a mitzvah (which according to some is Deoritta) in eating more Matzah than the required amount. <Ref>Maharal in Gevurot Hashem chapter 48, Bach 472, Mikrei Kodesh siman 48, Sh”t Har Tzvi 2, and Natai Gavriel (vol 2, 90:26) hold that there’s a mitzvah of eating Matzah as much as one eats even beyond the actual requirement. See also the Emek Shelah (Yitro 53:4). Hagadat Be’er Miryam (pg 53) writes that another reason to eat more Matzah is because there’s a big confusion in the amount necessary and Matzah is a mitzvah Deoritta. </ref> | ||
