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The Amazing Practice of the Chofetz Chaim To Eat Pickles on Pesach

A halacha shiur on the Chofetz Chaim's Pesach practice by Rabbi Daniel…

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A halacha shiur on the Chofetz Chaim's Pesach practice by Rabbi Daniel Glatstein.

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son-in-law told him, Rav Mendel Zaks, that the Chofetz Chaim told his wife on Pesach to take cucumbers and pickle them. Make them sour. Not, of course, with vinegar, but with some other spices. Why did the Chofetz Chaim do this? The Chofetz Chaim ate pickles on Pesach? What an unusual custom. Why would the Chofetz Chaim eat pickles on Pesach? There was a kavana amuka in the practice of the Chofetz Chaim. You see, the Karaite, the Karaites, they

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  1. 0:31son-in-law told him, Rav Mendel Zaks, that the Chofetz Chaim told his wife on Pesach to…
  2. 1:01interpreted chametz very literally. Something sour, something vinegar. And therefore, the Karaites would not eat sour…

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