Reply To: This Beer Predicament

“Don’t you find it interesting that the only time this information was released was *after* a sale was made?”

Yes. That’s one of the main reasons I started this thread; we’ve been discussing that this entire time. Also, see the article referenced earlier for other Kashrus agencies, namely the Satmar CRC. As stated earlier, the OU holds that when a Jew continues to sell chamatz upon which he did mechira, the mechira is pasul.

I’m sorry, but I’m not really sure what you’re still debating. We know for sure that this was chometz owned over Pesach by a Jew (in previous years there was no Mechira at all). Some people might be OK with this year’s mechira, but nobody is saying that it was ever fine to eat chometz shel issur. You’re trying to infer from the silence in previous years that they were matir? On what grounds would there be a heter? And, if this were so, then why were they pressuring the Jew to do mechira?