Reply To: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz?

Hashgacha Pratis!!!

So tonight I went to the grocery store and in the other line I saw what I thought was a LFJ (local frum Jew) buying a lot of Purim party stuff (Kedem grape juices and disposable plates in extra large quantities).

So I was thinking “Should I ask? Maybe I should ask? Naw I don’t want to bother him. No I should ask. No he is about to leave.”

Finally —He is paying and I couldn’t take it anymore so I say, “Excuse me, but do people sell their dishes??? [pause then I realize that I should add] for Pesach.”

<So out of nowhere for all he knew, I got that in retrospect>

Turns out that he is a LOR and actually one of them from my LOS; I just did not meet him yet.

Guess what CR:::

According to my LOR, you sell your ENTIRE house. Yes that’s right. Even after cleaning, the house no longer belongs to you during Pesach. You sell it to a nonJew and then get it back after Pesach.

That’s because there is still lingering chametz he said (there is no way to get rid of it all, so we sell any traces).

Yepp yepp —Moral of the story: Doesn’t matter if I don’t have chametz foods and my house is clean, my house (including dishes of course and everything else) must be sold for Pesach.

He said to just got to my LOS and fill out a form and the rabbi will do it for me.

Yays 🙂