[Avodah] renting an office to a nonJew for Pesach

[Daniel Israel]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:18:40 -0600 Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>rom daily halacha
>
><<66. If one owns, or rents an office, or a second home, one should
>L'chatchilah do a Bedikah at that location on Thursday evening.
>However, if it will be a great difficulty to do the Bedikah one may
>rent the home/office to a non-jew for Pesach along with a sale of 
>any Chometz in that location. Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 
>433:5MB23, 436:MB32>>
>
>For those peons who don't have their own business but work for 
someone
>else how does one  "rent the home/office to a non-jew" ?

LAD, it I would think that the problem only exists if you rent the 
office, which makes it your reshus.  If the office doesn't belong 
to you, you just use it, why do you need to be concerned about 
chometz being there?  Of course, you presumably would still need to 
check for chometz that belongs to you, but I don't even see why it 
would need a formal bedikah.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu