Reply To: Karpas – is any ha’adoma ok?

The sefer Nezer Hakodesh, a compendium of minhagei Melitz, Ropshitz, and other related chasidic groups, brings that Reb Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz held that potatoes are shehakol. It further mentions that the Yismach Moshe originally made Hoadama until he heard that The Ropshitzer made shehakol. He subsequently looked in the Aruch (I assume it means HaAruch M’Shach) and saw that he says potatoes and mushrooms are shehakol. There are various other sources quoted in the footnotes and I do not remember them all but if you search “the potato in halacha” there is an article from the Kof-K which notes the opinion that potatoes are shehakol because they grow from the air and not from the ground, and it cites Lekutei Maharich page 127 (old), Divrei Yatziv O.C. 1:82, Shulchan Hatohar 204:3, Zer Zahav 2,
Pnei Ha’shulchan page 367, Shraga Hameir 4:11:3, 6:119, Mekor Ha’beracha page 69:52