{"id":17592,"date":"2026-03-29T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ish-tsadik.org.il\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=17592"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:04:02","slug":"eating-kitniyot-on-erev-pesach-for-ashkenazim","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.ish-tsadik.org.il\/en\/faq\/eating-kitniyot-on-erev-pesach-for-ashkenazim\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Kitniyot on Erev Pesach for Ashkenazim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"26\">Peri Megadim<\/b> (Siman 444) and the <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"59\">Maharsham<\/b> (Siman 453) permitted eating <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"98\">Kitniyot<\/b> on <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"110\">Erev Pesach<\/b> until the night. However, the ruling of the <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"166\">Shevet HaLevi<\/b> (Volume 3, 31) is to forbid them starting from the same hour that the eating of <i data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"260\">Chametz<\/i> is prohibited. Therefore, one may be lenient only for small children, using vessels that are separate from the Pesach dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-17592","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eating Kitniyot on Erev Pesach for Ashkenazim - Ish Tsadik<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ish-tsadik.org.il\/en\/faq\/eating-kitniyot-on-erev-pesach-for-ashkenazim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eating Kitniyot on Erev Pesach for Ashkenazim - Ish Tsadik\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The author of the Peri Megadim (Siman 444) and the Maharsham (Siman 453) permitted eating Kitniyot on Erev Pesach until the night. 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