[Avodah] prozbul & heter iska (Michael Makovi)

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:24:08 +0300, R "Michael Makovi" <mikewinddale at gmail.com>
wrote:
: Rav Moshe Feinstein was asked about a Jewish-owned store that sold its
: chametz to a gentile, but continued to sell the chametz to customers
: over Pesach, while the sale to the gentile was still in place. RMF was
: asked, perhaps this shows the sale to the gentile was invalid? RMF
: answered, the guy is simply transgressing gezel from the gentile to
: whom he sold his chametz, but this doesn't invalidate the original
: sale for the purposes of owning chametz over Pesach.

I have an underlying question trying to understand RMF's pesaq...

When does a haaramah turn into an asmachta? It's kind of hard to believe
that someone who does such a sale of his chameitz year after year really
thinks he sold anything. Why is the qinyan valid?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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