[Avodah] Kashrus Question Chametz sh'avar alav haPesach

[Harry Weiss]

> From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
>
> Richard Wolberg wrote:
>
>> As well, the purchase of bread immediately
>> after Pesach from a non Jewish establishment is forbidden if it were baked
>> during Pesach.
>
> Huh?  Since when?  And why?
>
On Motzei Pesach it was the custom of the Yiddim for generations to buy 
bread from the non Jews.  That is behind the famous story.  (I think, but 
am not sure that it was teh Nodeh Biyehuda) of the plan by the anti 
semites to kill the Jews by poisening the bread they would buy on Motzei 
Peaach.  The Rav who helped some non Jewish boy in his childhood, was 
warned by that person.  He then announced in shul on Achron shel Pesach 
that he goofed in the calculations and that it was really Shvii shel 
pesach, thus they had to keep Pesachdik for an extra day.  This exposed 
plot and saved the Kehilla.





Harry J. Weiss
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