[Avodah] chametz gamur

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, April 30, 2008 11:49 am, R Eli Turkel wrote:
: I find this logic extremely strange. It amounts to saying that the
: store owner can sell because of hefsed merubah but preferably no one
: should buy from him. Doesn't accomplish very much.

I am trying to argue that since you are already swept up in his
hefseid merubah -- which isn't even needed according to all shitos to
begin with -- such that you can buy his chameitz once it's his again,
why aren't you allowed to sell your own chameitz?

Or, do we say that the storeowner too can't sell everything, that at
some point the amount left would only be a hefseid qetanah and that
amount couldn't be sold?

And if the storeowner's last $5 could be swept up in the general
reliance, why not my $5?

To phrase it more straightforwardly -- if I can rely on the heter to
buy off the storeowner, why can't I rely on it for my own stuff? I'm
already assuming it's okay to sell chameitz gamur, even if that
assumption was only accepted to avoid the grocer's hefseid merubah.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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