Questions about the sale of chametz (leaven) before Pesach. Leavened products are forbidden throughout the holiday, and must be destroyed or sold beforehand.
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What happens if the non-Jew the chometz was sold to dies?
I can't imagine it has never come up before:
Someone sells their chometz before Pesach to a non-Jew. On Pesach the non-Jew dies. What happens now?
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Why don't we just make our chametz ownerless?
I'm trying to understand the "legal fiction" wherein we declare any chometz we have as ownerless like the dust of the earth. Is this halachically acceptable? How can a person declare something in his ...
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Trash as Chometz
Is the trash in my trash cans that must stay on my property during Passover still considered under my ownership?
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Legitimacy of selling חמץ
What are the arguments for and against the now-widespread practice of selling חמץ prior to פסח?
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Why sell and be mafkir chametz? [duplicate]
My understanding is that we do both of the following:
We (appoint a rabbi as an agent to) sell our chametz to a gentile. This sale takes place the morning of the day before Pesach, before the ...
