[Avodah] chametz after pesach

[Akiva Blum]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: avodah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org 
> [mailto:avodah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org] On Behalf Of Moshe Y. Gluck
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 3:21 AM
> 
> R' Akiva Blum:
> It may be that the same is true here. Whereas the contract may be
> enforceable in
> Beis Din, if the seller or buyer could refuse to comply, and 
> the secular
> Israeli
> courts would back him, on no more that the claim that the 
> contract is for
> religious purposes, that the sale is ineffective.
> ------------------
> 
> One Rabbi I know (here in the US) told me that he showed his 
> Shtar to a few
> lawyers and a judge, all of whom said it would stand up in court. 
> 

The point is that the Israeli court invalidated what should have been a
perfectly sound contract on nothing more than that it is 'religious shtick'.

If I am correct, this psak of Rav Elyashiv would only apply in EY.

Akiva