[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Shalom Berger]

Someone who doesn't sell hametz gamur is being mahmir on the biblical
prohibition of bal yeraeh/bal yematze on Pesach.
Someone who, after Pesach, purchases hametz gamur that was sold, is
being mekel on the rabbinic prohibition of hametz she-avar alav
ha-pesach.

Makes sense to me.

Shalom

Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger, Ed.D.
The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education
Bar-Ilan University
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----- 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?