Comments on: Oats follow up https://kashrut.org/oats-follow-up/ Practicing Judaism without all the pain Wed, 17 Mar 2021 03:45:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Aaron Abadi https://kashrut.org/oats-follow-up/#comment-2097 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 03:45:33 +0000 https://kashrut.org/?p=7517#comment-2097 We don’t really know the specific 5 grains, other than wheat and barley.
Spelt and rye fit into the mix, but we don’t have evidence that they’re their own grain category as opposed to under the umbrella of wheat.
The way we got the current 5 grain list is because some people decided we need to identify five different grains, so they took the liberty of choosing what they thought might fit.
They saw a Rashi that said “oats” bela”az, so they ran with it. This is extremely dishonest and not how our Torah works. Rashi didn’t speak English and whatever oats meant to him, has no bearing on the product we call oats.

As far as the “may contain wheat” issue, ignore it. That’s just an allergy disclaimer. You never found wheat in your oatmeal and you never will.

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