[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> 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?

I don't understand the question.  Those who have this minhag are choosing
to be machmir.  They don't claim -- do they? -- that everyone *must* be
machmir like them, or else they deserve to be punished.  Even leshitasam
the shopkeeper acted beheter, he had the right to rely on what he was
told was a good sale, even if they have their doubts.  So why would they
punish him by not buying his goods?  At the same time, why would that
stop them from being machmir on themselves?  "Machmirim al atzman
umekilin al kol yisrael."

It's not as if there's some inherent issur in chametz she'avar alav
hapesach, even if it was done in good faith. 

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