[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:13:36PM +0200, Ben Waxman wrote:
: 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).

I think you took my argument backwards. I'm not arguing in favor of
bannig the sale of real chameitz by stores. I'm saying that the fact
that ein hatzibur yakhol laamod bah (in chu"l either) WRT store shows
the minhag as a whole is not teneble -- and shouldn't apply to baalei
bayis.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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