Unanswered Questions
174 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How can someone dispose of chametz trash that someone has disposed on his private property?
Someone's home is on a public street. A homeless man likes to feed bread to the birds that are in the nests and on the person's lawn. Sometimes, the man just dumps a pile of bread crumbs on the lawn ...
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Can an non-North African Jew participate in post-Pesach Mimouna celebrations?
Mimouna is a customary post-Pesach celebration originally observed by Moroccan and Algerian Jews. When large numbers of those groups made aliyah, the custom was adopted by many Israelis as well.
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Does 100% pure avocado oil need special kosher l'Pesach certification?
Costco carries a brand of avocado oil that I think is produced by Whole Foods. I know that OU, and I think other kashrut agencies have stated that 100% pure olive oil needs no special Pesach ...
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Nullifying a chametz-based medication before Pesach
Let's say you are a choleh who is permitted or required to take a chometz-containing medication during Pesach (according to the halachos described here: http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-passover-...
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Can you buy chametz from a store whose owner profited from items sold during Pesach?
The scenario (theoretical):
Mr. Lachmi sells his Zeppolli store to Luigi before Pesach. He tells Luigi that he can use all his ingredients to make Zeppolis or anything else he wants to sell, so long ...
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Chazals intention behind bedikat hametz
Nowdays, it seems to be standard for jewish family's to begin cleaning their houses days before Pesach. By the time bedikat hametz arrives, the houses are usually hametz free.
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Removing signs from a Shul bulletin board
In many areas Shuls have a bulletin board on which signs are hung. In some larger cities there are sign hanging companies that for a fee, go around and hang up posters for businesses on these bulletin ...
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Should the Gemora allow boiled food on Pesach?
Pesachim 39B quotes a Beraisa which says, "The following do not become Chametz: something (i.e. grain) that was already baked (matzo), cooked, or Chalut (scalded, I guess?) in boiling water."
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Shliach for bedikas chometz -- making another shliach
Reuvan went away before Pesach and made Shimon a shliach (emissary) to be bodek (check) his home on lyl yud-daled (the night before Pesach) for chametz. (See beginning of Siman 436 and Mishneh Brurah ...
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Do sefardim have to check rice for Hametz nowadays?
Rav Y. Abadi holds that nowadays, there is no need to check our rice for pieces of Hametz due to the way rice is manufactured.
http://kashrut.org/forum/viewpost.asp?mid=11648&highlight=
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When to assume someone’s a liar
If someone tells you to make up something, for example, (showing that they have no problem lying) and then afterwards they tell you something, do you have to assume it’s a lie?
Example case: you’re ...
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Does one need to repeat Birchas Hamazon if he forgot Ya’aleh Veyavo after washing again for the Afikoman?
If one forgot to eat the Afikoman, and he remembered after he bentched, so he washed again and ate the Afikoman, and then bentched again, and he forgot Ya’aleh Veyavo in the second bentching, must he ...
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What was the date of Avraham Avinu's bris millah?
Based on the Rashi's comment on Bereshis 18:1,
AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM to visit the sick man. R. Hama the son of Hanina said: it was the third day after his circumcision and the Holy One, ...
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Minhag Oberland Selling Chametz
Does anyone by any chance know if the oberlander minhag is to sell chametz or not? Thank you very much
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Matzah baking in a frying pan - flipping the matzah
Do regular matzah bakeries flip the matzah in the middle of baking? I heard from a rabbi not to do that, but I see videos where they flip it. What are the issues here?
Update: I want to make the ...
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