[Avodah] buying Israeli produce

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:59:39PM +0200, Ben Waxman wrote:
: This is actually an interesting question (to me at least). When do we avoid
: problems (for example not accepting gerim since we don't want to break the
: rules of treating a ger) and when do we delve into the halachic "swamp" (for
: example eating hot food on Shabbat and not doing the simple thing of eating
: cold food?)

RRW asked a related question last October at
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol26/v26n199.shtml#05>:
    Avraham spends the entire Chol haMoed avoiding the CHIYYUV of eating in
    the Sukkah. Instead of needing to find a sukkah, he adjusts his diet to
    eat foods that do not trigger an obligation. He has water, fruit juice,
    a hard boiled egg, but nothing to kovei'a any s'uda

    Yitzchak religiously washes twice a day and makes hammotzi and benches.
    He aims to get in 14 s'udos mamash over the course of sukkos over the
    course of the Chag

    But Yitzchak also eats several signifcant portions of food outside the
    sukkah in addition to these 14 times. Some of them would be mamash
    k'vias s'uda, but maybe he has a heter when traveling or at the office.

    Haskafically Avraham has srcupulously avoided a bittul aseh, but makes
    no brachah on hol Hamoed

RAMiller, RJMeisner and I replied. See
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=H#HASHKAFA%20QUESTION%20ON%20SUKKAH%20EATING>
reduced to <http://bit.ly/9CVXCy>.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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