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Abaye asked him: But is eating an olive-bulk in the time it takes to eat a half-loaf of bread prohibited by Torah law, and is one flogged for it? Rav Dimi said to him: Yes. Abaye asked in response: If so, why do the Rabbis disagree with Rabbi Eliezer with regard to eating Babylonian kutaḥ, a dip that contains bread, on Passover? The Rabbis maintain that one is not punished by Torah law for eating a mixture that contains leaven.
Rav Dimi said to Abaye: Leave aside the case of Babylonian kutaḥ, as there is no possibility that one will consume an olive-bulk of the leaven in the time it takes to eat a half-loaf of bread. If he eats kutaḥ in its pure, unadulterated form, by swallowing [shareif ] it as food, not as a dip, his intention is rendered irrelevant by the opinions of all other people.
We review the halachot of כְּזַיִת בִּכְדֵי אֲכִילַת פְּרָס
And the issue of eating the Afikoman prior to Chatzot by the seder…..
Rabbi Baruch Epstein (the Mekor Baruch) visited his uncle the Netziv one seder and Reb Chayim Brisker the next comparing the atmosphere and the different approaches to the deadline for the afikomen.
We divert to the history of the Netziv and Reb Boruch Eostein in memory of my late Mother in law Rebbetzin Rachel Gettinger ( a direct descendent of the Netziv) whose sh'loshim we mark today.