"מ'זאל נישט מאכען פון די מצה א פרעס"

Leave it to the שארפע in Prszyscha to get straight to the point, so that even גראב יונגען like us can understand. Although as I'm writing this I can't help but think that it wasn't the חפצא of the Matzoh that he didn't want made into a fress, but rather the whole inyan of Oneg YT and פלייש, etc. But maybe I'm just delving too deep. Try to explain this to a non-chossid and you'll get lots of blank stares. or maybe he'll tell you how it's עונג יו"ט to have Matzoh brei/farfel/toast and kneidlakh. יהי להם אשר להם. I fargin everybody his simchas YT. The interesting thing is that in today's day and age it's specifically the "Heimishe", i.e. Chassidim that seem to be so heavily invested in the פרעס. Even without the gebrokts. Just check out the circulars and the Charedi publications. And the whatsapp clips from the various supermarkets לולי דמסתפינא we would eat a simple gebrokts and less of the meats and pesach cookies.

a few words about מאשין מצות

The opinion expressed herein - i.e. that the nameless Malach throws Chometz, etc. - is not NECESSARILY that of the blogmeister.

"Lubavitcher Chasidim Providing (real) Shmurah for Satmarer Matzos"

Reb Eizik Levy

Reb Getzel's left peyoh and left side of hat here

The 2 Mashgichim

This week a few groups, ובראשם the Satmar Matzoh bakery in Kiryas Joel, went down to Arizona to cut wheat for matzohs. The delegation included - but was by no means limited to - the Satmar Rebbe, The KJ Rov; Reb Getzel Berkovitch, and Reb Eizik Levy, manager of the bakery. These two Lubavitcher Jews (pictured above) had been staying in the searing Arizona heat since a week before Shavuos camped out in a mobile home for 7 weeks, never leaving the place alone. They were watching for rain. Making sure that it did NOT rain. One of them was always there, not only watching for rain, but also patrolling the perimeter. Day and night, as they tell the Satmar Rebbe in the recording posted here. What happens if it does rain?? then all of it goes to the garbage.   What? you say? So how do they get wheat for Matzohs ever? 

An important point to mention is that if the wheat has matured and is אינו צריך לקרקע, then, as explained by the רשב"א, it is as if the rain fell on it "after" cutting - which would make it into a שאלה of חמץ. Wheat grown in the Eastern U.S., where it rains all year long, have the problem of sprouted wheat, so most shmura matzah production relies on bittul of at least a 180:1 ratio, and are sometimes forced to travel from field to field searching for wheat with an acceptable ratio. Many are machmir, especially the Rebbes who have many בחורים with lots of free time during בין הזמנים, get them to check each and every little grain to see if they are sprouted in order to have 100% clean wheat. In the alte heim they where afraid of rain so they cut the wheat for matzoh when it was a little greenish, a bit premature,  but that causes many headaches as it could grow mildew or fungus or sprout.  Sprout is chometz, so then you have to rely on Roiv, which is only one sprouted per 60 or 120 or 180 to be machmir. 

Enter Arizona [just as in Eretz Yisroel], where you could leave the wheat standing until well mature, because it almost NEVER rains after winter. The low humidity climate lets wheat grow with no sprouted wheat AT ALL and no need to sort for any defect. I don't wanna speak Loshon Horah, but the other Satmar (Zalonim) party - for purely political reasons - accuses 'falsely' that it rained in Arizona last year, they even made a false video. Now the KJ people have real frum עדות that were there for 7 weeks (a first for such a long period of time) and testify that NO rain fell from maturity until cutting; it cost them a fortune to provide an air-conditioned mobile home - from when the wheat was still green until yesterday when it was cut, and they gave eidus to the visiting Rabbonim, (as you could hear through the noise) the SR and Reb Getzel Berkowitz, who ask them to state that they were there day and night, shabbos and yom tov, and all Rabbonim heard them say it. But it cost a fortune just to be medakdek on one chumra.

 מעיקר הדין לא צריכים שמורה משעת קצירה אלא משעת לישה ואילך. מנהג אבותינו לאכול מצות פשוטים ורק לליל הסדר החמירו לשמירה משעת קצירה חסידים ואנשי מעשה. משעת טחינה ואילך איז הלכה. משעת קצירה איז נאר א חומרא, אבער צו האבען 24/7 שמירה אזוי ווי דא אין אריזאנע איז שוין א חסידות. זיי זענען דארט פון ווען עס איז נאך געוועהן גרין. און די מצות וועלן אי"ה זיין מהודרים בתכלית ההידור למדקדקים. דא אונטען קען מען הערן ווי די עדים רעדן צו די רבנים

דער חסיד'ס געבעט

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This Brisker guy goes to bake matzoh - he drives the whole place nuts. The water is too warm, the flour is too wet, the oven is too cool. Every chumra and then some is on this guy's list. Finally he gets a teygel of dough and it's moist, so he throws it out, followed by 23 more teyglach. After a while he gets the dough he wants, rolls it perfectly to shiur, and repeats this 15 times and produces 15 matzos, of which he decides 12 are not worthy. So he leaves with his 3 matzos and heads to the Griz's (Der Rov) house for final approval of his charred ash matzos. On the way he meets a chusid who has a box of freshly baked matzos. He says to the chusid: "nu, which chumros did you use in baking your matzos?" The chusid looks at the Brisker and admits that he had no chumros, but he says "this morning I said tehilim that Hashem should make sure I get only kosher matzos." The Brisker is so touched by the chusid's faith that he says "Gevalt, I want such holy matzos please switch with me." The chusid gladly obliges the Brisker and swaps with him. Later the Brisker tells the Brisker Rov the whole story to which the Rov replies: "the chusid davened well so he got your kosher Matzo, you on the other hand have chametz."

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