A new Sefer is out! Sefer Emek HaSufganim: Iyunim & Biurim B'Inyan Minhag Achilas Sufganim B

A new Sefer is out! Sefer Emek HaSufganim: Iyunim & Biurim B'Inyan Minhag Achilas Sufganim B'Yemei Chanuka (insights & annotations on the custom of eating Sufganim (donuts) during the days of Chanuka)(The famous sufganiyot of Pizza Uri, Jerusalem) This 410 page sefer (without the appendices) discusses every detail of our beloved Chanuka minhag of eating Sufganiyot (or Sufganim in Loshon HaKodesh; from the Greek word for ‘sponge’). It brings no less than eleven reasons for eating Sufganiyot and discusses questions like “what brocha to make on it?” If one should take off challah from its dough, if one is obligated to use olive oil and if so, if one did not use oilive oil; did one still fulfill his obligation? Is there at all an obligation on every Jew to eat Sufganiyot? Is one yotzei by just dipping the sufganiya in olive oil or does it have to be fried in olive oil? What is the proper time to eat it? Should one be mevater on eating them if one doesn’t do it purely for the sake of the minhag but rather just for pleasure? And much, much more.The big annual Jumblr debate finally solved: Latkes or Sufganiyot: What is preferable? Sufganiyot or latkes? Sefer Emek HaSufganim states: it is preferable to eat Sufganiyot. if for whatever reason it is not possible to eat both [latkes AND Sufganiyot), eating sufganiyot has the preference because of the words of HaRav Maimon -father of the Rambam- who wrote ופשט המנהג לעשות סופגנין, בערבי[ת] אלספינג’, והם הצפיחיות בדבש ובתרגום 'האיסקריטין’, והוא מנהג הקדמונים משום שהם קלויים בשמן זכר לברכתו ) [And the meaning of the minhag to make sufganin is, in [Biblical] Hebrew אלספינג’  ( … ) and this is the custom of those long before us because they [are] fried in oil [as a] remembrance for His blessing.] dds -- source link

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