Ask JTF for March 29, 2015 is ready, baruch Hashem

[Chaim Ben Pesach]

בס''ד

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[Tag-MehirTzedek]

Chaim you skipped my questions. 

[Tag-MehirTzedek]

" Do you eat kitniot? lean on pessah Seder and if so how? which Hagadah do you use? what do you concider a Kzait for Massa? "

[Chaim Ben Pesach]

Chaim you skipped my questions.

בס''ד

I'm sorry about that.

I didn't skip the questions. I finished recording the program when you posted your questions. I didn't upload the finished program for about an hour because I had a meeting.

[Tag-MehirTzedek]

בס''ד

I'm sorry about that.

I didn't skip the questions. I finished recording the program when you posted your questions. I didn't upload the finished program for about an hour because I had a meeting.

 Its okay. Can you perhaps answer them here?

[Chaim Ben Pesach]

" Do you eat kitniot? lean on pessah Seder and if so how? which Hagadah do you use? what do you concider a Kzait for Massa? "

בס''ד

1. I do not eat kitniot. My father a"h was Ashkenazi, my mother Spharadia. We usually go by the minhag of the father, so I follow the Ashkenazi issur on eating kitniot.

2. I do lean at the Pesach seder. I lean to the left and eat with my right hand.

3. I use the Ashkenazi menukad version of the Hagadah.

4. About a third of a matzah is "kezait" (like an olive - but necessarily like the olives that are grown today). To fulfill the mitzvah according to all opinions, we start out by eating at least two thirds of a matzah which is two "kezait" portions.

[ChabadKahanist]

בס''ד

1. I do not eat kitniot. My father a"h was Ashkenazi, my mother Spharadia. We usually go by the minhag of the father, so I follow the Ashkenazi issur on eating kitniot.

2. I do lean at the Pesach seder. I lean to the left and eat with my right hand.

3. I use the Ashkenazi menukad version of the Hagadah.

4. About a third of a matzah is "kezait" (like an olive - but necessarily like the olives that are grown today). To fulfill the mitzvah according to all opinions, we start out by eating at least two thirds of a matzah which is two "kezait" portions.

This may be a good haggada for you Chaim. check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haggada_of_the_Jewish_Idea

[Rational Jew]

Chaim, I can't understand why you defend people like Obadia Shoher. I can see that he supports Rabbi Kahane zt'l and even has a YouTube channel filled with his videos. But, how does it justify him making attacks against Halacha on his blog?

He clearly defends intermarriage here:
http://samsonblinded.org/blog/thais-are-okay.htm

He writes that there is nothing wrong with intermarriage and that Torah only bans it with certain pagan nations. Under his article, one of his blog readers is seen defending muslims as "Noahides" and even attacking a Christian poster as "idol-worshipper" for attacking islam.

Here he writes that there is nothing wrong with Jewish men visiting non-Jewish prostitutes:

http://samsonblinded.org/blog/judaism-is-reasonable.htm
The Torah carefully prohibits Jews from giving out their daughters for prostitution, but enjoins them to have foreign prostitutes.

http://samsonblinded.org/blog/marital-habits-of-jewish-forefathers.htm
The Torah imposes a ban on Jewish prostitution, but tellingly avoids any restrictions on visiting foreign prostitutes. In a sense, Torah treats prostitutes as we would treat doctors: there is no shame in visiting a doctor of the opposite sex; it’s all strictly professional.
The Torah’s extensive regulations about men with genital discharges confirm that marital chastity was not widespread among Jews and the legist did not imagine it to take root.
The Torah does not describe engaging a prostitute as defilement, thus Jews can do so freely.

He wrote the whole article praising Islam as "a very practical religion" and even wrote that it is a much easier religion than Judaism. http://samsonblinded.org/blog/no-problem-with-islam.htm

Here he incites violence against Christians by calling for churches to be destroyed in Israel:
http://samsonblinded.org/blog/raze-the-domes.htm