20:7 (זָכוֹר אֶת-יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת, לְקַדְּשׁוֹ) I would like to speak briefly about the
Mitzva of Kiddush. The Mitzva is to make Kiddush at night Min Hatorah and
Midirabbanan by day as well. According to everyone the Mitzva Lichatchila is
with wine or with grape juice, with wine as the preference when a person makes
his Kiddush.
I once
heard from Rav Shlomo Zalman Braun the author
of Shearim Mitzuyanim B'Halacha
who was one of the first Chassidishe Rabbanim in Flatbush. He said a person
should keep all Chassidishe Minhagim except two. One of those two is the Minhag
of many Chassidim to make Kiddush on Schnapps. First of all even if you make
Kiddush on a Reviis of Schnapps it is not Lichatchila (preferable). Certainly if
a person makes Kiddush on a 1 ounce of Schnapps is not performing the Mitzvah
the way it should be done. It seems from the Shulchan Aruch that a person is
not even Yotzei B’dieved.
My
father A”H used to make Kiddush on Schnapps and when I got a little older I
mentioned to him that it is a Shaila. He said he will ask the Debrecene Rav.
The Debrecene Rav held of all the Chassidishe Minhagim. From then on he made
Kiddush on wine or grape juice. He did drink Schnapps later after the fish but
he made Kiddush on wine or grape juice.
I would
like to share with you something that I heard from Rav Moshe. I once asked Rav
Moshe about this Minhag and of course Rav Moshe held to make Kiddush on wine
but I asked it to him in the following context.
I told
him that the Chassidim make Kiddush on 1 ounce cup of Schnapps and we have a
complaint that it is not the Shiur. I told him that a certain Chassidishe Rav
had spoken and had been Melameid Zechus on the Minhag based on the Taz in the
beginning if Siman 210 S’if Aleph.
The Taz
(who says that to make a Borei Nifashos one must drink a Reviis) holds that a
person can make a Borei Nifashos on a smaller amount of Schnapps because
Schnapps is not something that is a drink that is drunk B’rivi’is. The Taz does
say that it is not in the requirement of a Reviis. He says that it is not even
possible to drink a Reviis. The Mishna Berura doesn’t Pasken like the Taz but
at least the Taz should be a suitable Teretz for the Minhag Haolam.
Rav
Moshe told me to go home and look at the Taz completely and I will see that it
is a mistake. He told me this at the end of Schacharis one day and I came back
to Yeshiva and with a few friends we learned the Taz. I would like to share
with you what I think Rav Moshe meant.
The Taz
does say that on Schnapps less than a Reviis a person can make a Borei
Nefashos. However, if one reads the Taz they see his Psak. He writes at the end
that since Tosafos Shitta is that a Borei Nifashos can be made even on a
Mashehu so here we can be Mitztareif Tosafos Shitta to my Sevara that a Borei
Nifashos can be made on a Mashehu of Schnapps.
Tosafos
Shitta that a Borei Nifashos can be made on a Mashehu, however Tosafos doesn’t
hold that way by Kiddush. So that even though the Taz held this way regarding
Borei Nefashos that has nothing to do with Kiddush where this is no Tziruf of
Tosafos Shitta. I think that is what Rav Moshe meant. If you like Schnapps
drink Schnapps but make Kiddush on a Reviis.
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