Reply To: Ta'arovet Hametz kadma l' Pesach

There is the mesora of Torah She Ba’al Peh and the “mesoyra” that is an invention of certain figures within contemporary Jewish intellectual history. Perhaps we have two different concepts in mind. But, in any event, the halakha does not object to the Sephardic practice of hozer ve neor as applied to specific dietary practices on Pesah. If people choose to be more mahmir than the Shulhan Arukh, they can be. If potato starch, not eating the skins of fruits and vegetables, avoiding garlic, etc. make people happy, “Gezunta heit” as they would say.

But I think that the halakhic approach of Rabbis Shammah, Hasson, Cohen, Maroof, and Abadi has merit, and if you have any qualms, I would be more than happy to supply contact information for these respected, Sephardic hakhamim. You can level all of your criticisms at them, since theirs is the practice many follow. I am not being “mechadesh” anything here, and am only relaying the piskei halakha I’ve learned from them.