Reply To: Hot Dog Eating Contest

Two things.

1. A Shmurah matzah has the circumference as a large pizza, or at least medium. 3/4th is a lot of matzah!

Was the Chazon Ish eating and referring to today’s size matzah? Maybe back in the day they were smaller?

2. The afikomen does not have to be hidden? News to me.

Want to know something that seemed like such a great idea last year and in retrospect maybe was not?

Last year, my Pesach table at the shul hid the afikomen in someone’s stroller. The husband wife and baby got up to leave early.

We felt bad that they would miss the afikomen, and wanted to make them happy (so we thought that they would appreciate it, but maybe not).

Thus, we hid it in the bottom part of the stroller, expecting them to be surprised when they found it once they walked home (guessing that they walked by all appearances and there was an Eruv).

Was that thoughtful or foolish?

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Thanks 🙂