<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">In a post I saw via GMane.ORG
(presumably, it will be in a digest one or two issues after V23#73), RCGS
replied to RES:</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>>> ...I've never put out any chometz before
the bedika, for two reasons: </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>1) I'm not worried about a brocha levatala. As you
make the bracha before</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>the search, it's apparent that the brocha is on the
search (my rav</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>concurs on this), not on the actual destruction of
the chametz. If it were the </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>latter, you'd be making the bracha then rather than
when you do.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>2) It's possibly self-defeating. What if you fail
to find one of the</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>pieces you put out? <<</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> -------------------------------</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> 1) Maybe I am missing something, but how is this
sevoro any more than</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> that which is written in the Kolbo etc., as brought
in the poskim in</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Siman 432, and nonetheless many poskim say to
do it, as brought in Chok</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Yaakov that "ain levatel minhigon shel yisroel",
and search for (other)</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> reasons why not to be mevatel the minhog - and
in the words of the SA</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Horan "minhog yisroel Torah hu"?</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> [Of course, there are those that never had such
a minhog, my point being</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> that these reasons not to do it are not new,
and are brought in all the</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> poskim - pro and con].</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> 2) Correct. Therefore the poskim write to make
sue not to lose any</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> pieces...</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> </font></tt>
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<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">See </font><font size=2 color=#800000 face="Verdana">http://www.torah.org/advanced/weekly-halacha/5758/pesach.html</font><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">
for a summary </font>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">of this issue.</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">All the best (including wishes
for</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">a guten Shabbes/Shabbas Shalom
uM'vorach,</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">gut Moeid/Moadim l'Simchah,
and</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">a guten YT/Chag Sameach)
from</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Monotype Corsiva">Michael Poppers</font><font size=4 color=blue face="Verdana">
</font><font size=3 face="Verdana">*</font><font size=4 color=blue face="Verdana">
</font><font size=4 color=blue face="EngraversGothic BT">Elizabeth, NJ,
USA</font>