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In answer to: <BR>
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> >> As well, the purchase of bread immediately<BR>> >> after Pesach from a non Jewish establishment is forbidden if it were baked<BR>> >> during Pesach.<BR>> ><BR>> > Huh? Since when? And why?<BR>
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R. Harry Weiss wrote:<BR>
<BR>> ><BR>> On Motzei Pesach it was the custom of the Yiddim for generations to buy <BR>> bread from the non Jews. That is behind the famous story... of the plan by<BR>
> the antisemites to kill the Jews by poisoning the bread they would buy on Motzei <BR>> Peaach.<BR>
> <BR><BR>
I'm not sure which side of the argument R. Weiss is on--establishing that <BR>
Jews buying bread from non-Jews immediately after Pesach is a long-<BR>
standing practice, or that the story is a reason not to do so. But <BR>
I don't suppose the antisemitic bakers were under haschgacha as <BR>
our Dunkin' Donuts shops are.<BR>
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