Janet,

I believe you have misunderstood me.

1. I have a rov.

2. I asked a shaila.

3. The shaila was not whether I have to eat bread.

4. The shaila was, given my diabetes, what is the minimum quantity of bread
I could eat and still be able to wash with the blessing and say the full
grace after meals.

5. The answer was that I can eat the amount the Ashkenazim consider a
kezayis, which is far less than what is considered a kezayis by the shita I
follow, and pursuant to the Magen Avraham the other food can be considered
to be aggregated to it to make up a beitzah.

6. If it would turn out that I can't even tolerate that amount, I do not
have to eat bread at all, however then I cannot wash with the blessing or
say the full grace after meals.

7. Ergo, my rov is not telling me to endanger my health.

Thank you,

Ellen

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
> On 9/6/2010 3:29 PM, Ellen K. wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear here, I am not telling you you are doing anything
>> wrong. I only explained the situation in the first place because Janet
>> seemed to be telling me *I* shouldn't be doing what I'm doing.
>
> Ellen, that is definitely not what I meant.
>
> I grew up in an orthodox home. My mother is the daughter of a rabbi. My
> uncle was a rabbi who had smicha from rav Cook in then Palestine. My dad
> was a schochet. His rav was Rav Moshe Feinstein. My dad was also a
> talmudic scholar and a whole bunch of impressive rabunim from NYC showed
> up at his funeral and pronounced him a lamed vavnik. I attended Yeshiva
> through my Junior year of high school. I have an education as well as a
> yichus.
>
> I am aware of the differences in interpretation between Ashkenazis and
> Sephardim, but I do know that neither wants people to get sick fulfilling
> a mitzvah. My mother was insulin dependent and it was more of a sin for
> her to fast on Yom Kippur than it was to eat. As much as she hated doing
> it, she understood that she had to eat and couldn't fast because fasting
> would make her sick and that was a sin.
>
> G-d doesn't want people to harm themselves worshiping. The primary
> directive for *all* Jews is "above all choose life". I am sure that if
> you told your rabbi that you had a medical reason for not being able to
> eat enough bread or matzoh, he could figure something out for you. That
> was what I meant in my post.
>
> I hope you can forgive me.
>
>
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Way-the-heck-south Texas
> Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.