Revolutionary ruling: ‘Yes’ to kitniyot on Pesach

By Kobi Nahshoni

Wall is about to crack: After hundreds of years of Ashkenazim devoutly refraining from eating legumes on Passover, rabbis of ‘Machon Shilo’ religious court rule: It is a strange and weak custom
The public has been begging for years, and there were those who could not hold back and decided for themselves to revoke the custom, and now for Passover 2007 the results can already be seen.
Eight hundred years after the custom began the consensus among the Ashkenazi rabbis about the relevance of the prohibition of eating kitniyot has, for the first time, been broken: The rabbis of the “Religious Court of Machon Shilo” have published a ruling that allows Ashkenazim living in Israel to cease the custom.
In a ruling that was published a few days ago, the rabbis of the institute, David Bar-Hayim, Yehoshua Buch, and Chaim Wasserman, claim that citizens of Israel are neither Ashkenazim or Sephardim (Jews of Spanish or North African descent), rather they are “Jews of Eretz Yisrael”, and therefore they should abide by the custom of the land and not by former customs.

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