GedaliahMaegil: Halacha....
JS: I know its hahalacha, I live to do hahalacha, yet in HaMoshiach is Hahalacha exactly the same as the Rabbis teach? The answer is no. The rabbis have ever struggled with legalism because many do not understand the Spirit of the law. Thus they wisely lowered the restriction on beans for vegetarians, but also included rice. Rice can leaven as easily as wheat!
I know this because I suffer from gluten intolerance. I make sour dough from both rice flour and sorghum flour catching yeast from the air. Thus, if wheat berries are unkosher because they might have leavening in them and sorghum is as well, shouldn’t rice also be? Unlike beans whose flour cannot and never could leaven, these too do!
Also Rav Shual explain that we were not to boast, but clean out the old leaven so that we have the unleaven bread of sincerity and truth. Thus, though we are to listen to the rabbis, I believe, we also are to study Hahalacha in light of its true meaning. Why are we called to keep this in the first place. We need to read their own arguments to clear away from the fine metal of Talmud from the dross of legalism.
For example according to Rav Shual we are to clean out our ego that blocks our prayers from reaching HaShem, praise be He. We are to keep the meaning of the law, no leavening is to be in our land our homes during Chag Hamatzo, yet our keeping should be resemble sincerity and truth. Sincerity in that we do this for righteous reasons, and Truth that we do this according to the Spirit, source, reason of the Law, not blindly.
I give above one law that we need to view differently as a group (anyone can take a higher bar). But we should make the bar under grace fit the reason behind the act for those needed a lower bar (reform converts or new converts for example).
Lastly on our own keeping, we start Chag HaMazto two to three days before Pesach (four this year because Pesach is follows Perpetration Day and Shavous). This is because I need to make staples for the coming holiday before starting to put together the Seder: wraps, Salad dressing, ketchup, mayo, bagels, crackers and cereal to name a few.
Does anyone else do likewise? Just curious.