tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382635099156893364.post1164906797604029837..comments2023-10-07T02:21:49.061-07:00Comments on Israel Jewish News: Orthodox Passover Rebels Do KitniyotAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04644518523952793214noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382635099156893364.post-29960265447239217382009-04-05T13:53:00.000-07:002009-04-05T13:53:00.000-07:00B"HWell, I didn't get through the entire article, ...B"H<BR/><BR/>Well, I didn't get through the entire article, but as you know, Michelle, I, though officially Ashkenazi, eat kitniyot (though the rest of my family doesn't). For those of you who aren't my best friend, I'm a vegan. I've been a vegan for almost 20 years (with 12 1/2 years before that as an ovo-lacto vegetarian). After 3 years of trying to deal with Pesah (Passover) as a vegan without beans (and getting sick, I might add), I told my Rabbi I needed to get a heter (permission) to eat beans on Pesah. So he sent me to the Sephardic Rabbi in town (who I knew anyway, LOL) and the Sephardic Rabbi gave me a "hararat nedarim" (a disavowal of vows) since I had basically accepted upon myself my family's custom of not eating kitniyot on Pesah. I said some stuff in Aramaic, The Rabbi and the two other men on the "Beit Din" (Jewish "Court") said some stuff in Aramaic, and I said some more stuff in Aramaic and they said some more stuff in Aramaic and that was that.... And since then I can eat kitniyot on Pesah (thank G-d -- right now, just about everything I eat on Pesah has kitniyot in it!)<BR/><BR/>Debbiecompugraphdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com