Friday, April 04, 2008
Quinoa: the slow drift toward kitniyotization continues
Every year since 2005, I've been tracking the status of quinoa for Passover. I've been using the instructions on the Aish HaTorah website as a guide to when it would be considered kitniyot, on the theory that where that Chareidi kiruv organization goes, soon gets dragged down the Modern Orthodox world, then, whatever they said becomes "universal observant practice." This year, ADDeRabbi beat me to an update, adding in:
Once again, I checked the trusty Aish "all about kitniyot" page. This year, it says:
Compare that to the text I recorded in 2006. Notice a pattern? Does it conform to the process I described there?
I’ve been informed that the Gedolim in Eretz Yisrael consider quinoa to be kitniyot. No surprise there.
Once again, I checked the trusty Aish "all about kitniyot" page. This year, it says:
There is one product called "quinoa" (pronounced "kin-O-ah," or keen-WA) that is the subject of much discussion. Although quinoa resembles a grain, it is technically in the "goose foot" family, which includes sugar beets and beet root. As such, some rabbis (for example, Rabbi Heinemann of Star-K) permit its use even for Ashkenazim on Passover, while other rabbis do not.
Compare that to the text I recorded in 2006. Notice a pattern? Does it conform to the process I described there?
Labels: halacha, judaism, kitniyot, passover, quinoa
