Q. We spent Pesach by the coast and the humidity was very high. We are always very makpid and careful on gebrochts, but because of the high humidity the shemura matza became soft and lost its crispiness. The matzos were not wet at all, just like soft cardboard. Is that a problem?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that this does not constitute gebrochts (soaked or wetted matza) for those who follow the tradition of abstaining from it, since it is the derech and the common condition of cities by the coast to have humid weather and its results. He mentioned that this would be less of a shaila than wetting the matza with one’s own saliva as it is eaten, that obviously does not make it gebrochts.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a