[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 04:39:36PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: >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?
: 
: It's simple: chametz she'avar alav hapesach is a knass...

You're answering the opposite question. I'm not asking why you can buy
it from the store. I'm asking why, once you're relying on the sale of
chameitz gamur, you can't sell your own?

We don't tell the store owner to sell all but an affordable amount of
chameitz, as that remaining amount wouldn't be a hefsed merubah. Is that
hypothetical remaining amount any different to you than the chameitz in
your own home?

I would think that once we have to matir my buying his chameitz gamur by
relying on his selling it for the duration of Pesach, the entire minhag
should fall away under it being -- as a whole -- a hefsed meruba or ein
hatzibur yakhol laamod bah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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