[Avodah] biur

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, February 13, 2008 12:17 pm, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: are there any bnai tora [as oppossed to amcha or amaratzim] who are
: holding by hetter mechira?

Umm... Much of the dati leumi world. Including most of the yeshivot
hesder. (I should also point out that in the past otzarei BD have run
out around this time of year, suppliers switched sources, and many
people who didn't realize it were relying on heter mechirah. This is
because RSZA allows HM beshe'as hadechaq.)

The OU does not use HM. That doesn't necessarily mean its poseqim have
a problem with it; the OU often goes lechumrah to maximize the base of
people who will use it.

Rabbi Jachter writes on the subject in
<http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/hetermechira1.htm> and
<http://www.koltorah.org/RAVJ/Heter_Mechirah_2.html> from the previous
cycle, and in <http://www.koltorah.org/RAVJ/Shemittah_5768_1.html> and
<http://www.koltorah.org/RAVJ/Shemittah_5768_2.html> from this one.

R' Dr Josh B sent me some material on the relevant machloqesin
privately, you can ask him for a copy.

Last, we had the thread "heter mechira produce" last Elul. You can
check that
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=H#HETER%20MECHIRA>.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha