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size=2>R' Elliott Shevin <eshevin@hotmail.com>
wrote:<BR><BR>>>But I've never put out any chometz before the
bedika....<BR><BR><BR>2) It's possibly self-defeating. What if you fail to find
one of the<BR>pieces you put out?<<<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I know this is very obvious but for that very reason I write it: You
put out ten pieces precisely so that you will know exactly how many pieces you
put out! How then can you "fail to find one"?</DIV>
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<DIV>Everyone uses that same number so you don't have to remind yourself how
many pieces you put out. If you count nine pieces when you're done, you
know you missed one. And if you just can't find one of the pieces even
after looking for it -- then you didn't look well enough! So you need
to do your bedikas chometz better. (One person should hide the
bread and the other should look -- there's no fun and not much sense in
looking for what you yourself "hid," is there? Afterwards, presumably the person
who hid the bread remembers where she hid it. So how could it ever
happen that you look and look and just /can't find/ that tenth piece of
bread?!)</DIV>
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<DIV>Someone came up with a brilliant new Pesach invention -- they keep coming
up with stuff -- this one is a package of ten pieces of bread, each in a sealed
plastic, so when you find the bread after hiding it, there are no crumbs.
But then someone who bought this super-convenient pre-packaged chometz, when he
went to his shul for the big burning, was told that the shul would not
allow anyone to put plastic in the fire because burning plastic releases toxins
into the air, so he had to take the bread /out of/ the plastic
So it didn't turn out to be so convenient after all. </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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