[Avodah] Kashrus Question Chametz sh'avar alav haPesach

[Elliott Shevin]

In answer to: 
 
> >> 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?
 
R. Harry Weiss wrote:
> >> 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... of the plan by
> the antisemites to kill the Jews by poisoning the bread they would buy on Motzei > Peaach.
> 
I'm not sure which side of the argument R. Weiss is on--establishing that 
Jews buying bread from non-Jews immediately after Pesach is a long-
standing practice, or that the story is a reason not to do so. But 
I don't suppose the antisemitic bakers were under haschgacha as 
our Dunkin' Donuts shops are.
 
Elly
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