What is Sushi?

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  • February 18, 2014 11:55 pm at 11:55 pm #612167
    HaLeiVi
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    On Daf 12b we learn that you may use Sushi for S’chach. In the Shas Vilna Hachadash it quotes the Me’iri that some people actually eat it.

    I didn’t actually bother yet to check up the Laazei Rashi but I was imagining that it is referring to fern. That would match the description ofa large grass that some people eat (when it is small). And the Shvatzri can be Skunk Cabbage.

    February 19, 2014 6:45 am at 6:45 am #1004287
    👑RebYidd23
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    Skunk cabbage? What’s that? I’ve heard about it, but I didn’t want to look.

    February 19, 2014 1:42 pm at 1:42 pm #1004288
    notasheep
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    The word sushi is Japanese for rice. So it may have been referring to the stalks of the rice plant…

    February 19, 2014 3:57 pm at 3:57 pm #1004289
    HaLeiVi
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    Skunk cabbage is a large leaf that grows from the ground, which would fit Rashi’s description of calling it an herb (arba bilaaz). It actually smells like a skunk. It doesn’t stink from afar but it is unmistakeable.

    February 19, 2014 4:58 pm at 4:58 pm #1004290
    HaLeiVi
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    Truth is, of course, that the word might be Shushi, Susi, Sushi or Shusi. Anyhow, now that I did look up the Targum Laaz, I am glad to announce that it is actually fern. Thanks to Michael Wiener’s (Savage) book, Earth Food Earth Medicine, I was able to understand the Me’iri. Wiener writes that the Native Americans would eat young fern. Once it is old it becomes bitter and possibly poisonous.

    The Shvatzri is wormwood, or flea-bane according to Rebbe Machir. I don’t recall bumping into any of these.

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