[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Ben Waxman]

I've heard two ideas in regard to this:

1) In practical terms telling people to buy only in stores which don't sell
hametz, which only sell hametz productst that were produced after Pesach
etc, is a gezira which the zibbur can not handle (in Israel anyway).

2) You can't tell someone in one sentence to rely on the heter and then in
the next sentence tell him that having done that, he is on his own, the
community is not going to buy from him.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
>
> Personally, I don't get the whole minhag of not selling chameitz gamur,
> but shopping after Pesach at a store that did. What, it's less ha'aramah
> to rely on his sale than on my own? Or do most of us not have stocked
> pantries for which switching to and from Pesach isn't a hefsed meruba?