I could make air assur on pesach if I tried
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 by AriI’m kind of surprised no one was more interested in my post about the Rambam’s four questions. I guess it’s just more proof that I spend a lot of time pondering things no one else really cares about. The CRC has a fairly good (albeit somewhat lacking in depth) article on whether the carbon dioxide in soda is chumetz. I know it sounds implausible enough to be an April fool’s day hoax (seriously – the fourth most common gas on earth being chametz?) but if you ignore your knee-jerk reaction to the topic, it’s actually an interesting case study in the interaction between science and halakha, and how our knowledge of the former shapes the latter.
On a related note, I finally got myself a copy of Meachem Kasher’s hagaddah sheleimah earlier this week. With pesach cleaning I haven’t had a chance to spend as much time with it as I would like, but I must say that I can’t remember ever having had this much fun with a sefer before. It’s simply great.
Chag kasher v’sameach to everyone.
