[Avodah] Heter mechira

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon Jun 23 23:36:11 PDT 2008


Yitzhak Grossman wrote:
> Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
 
>> 4. BTW, if the goy takes the chametz and doesn't pay, he can be sued
>> for the money, but the chametz is still his.  His ownership doesn't
>> depend on his payment.  And in the forms I've seen there's a Jewish

> Actually, many Poskim consider a default on payment to be possible
> grounds for retroactively annulling a sale.  See, e.g., Nesivos
> (190:7), Bah (HM 96:23), Pis'hei Teshuvah (ibid. 2) and Beis Meir (EH
> 90:9 s.v. Kayamim Be'azmam ... V'hinei Ha'Zarich Iyun She'hiniah Harav
> Ha'Maggid ...).

Not if there's an arev kablan.


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