Loopholes in Halacha The Case of Mechiras Chometz 03 22 2026

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay. Um so so we we've touched on this topic in the past in passing um and I thought maybe um you know it's mitzvah we should go through it in a little more detail today. So I wanted to go through the entire entire some of the etmology of how the modern phenomenon oft you know in its ubiquitous form that that just about everybody participates in how that developed where that and how in how that developed where that and how it got to where to to you know the exact format that it's in today. Now there's many many innovations and developments that contributed to the way looks today. It's uh not something suffice to say that the that we have is not something that you could open up and see you know it says exactly how we do it. So let's let's uh try to break it down piece of piece. Now I want to open with a little historical vignette that inl brings down. It's a little piece of brings down. It's a little piece of information revisits it as well. I want to open with that and and we'll try to piece together the story. So some services as follows. of Frank says during the lifetime of the of the and rose as follows. He says there was a story it came to the attention of the local you know magistrate that the Jews are selling the without the stamp of the emperor meaning they're avoiding taxes they're not paying a transfer tax they're not logging this in as a regular sale when it came in front of the ruler religion he spells out here. So this says he says it came to the ruler and the ruler please this is not something that requires a transfer tax. This is not an actual authentic sale.

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5. 13:27antise anti-semitism Because often times the the Jews were the ones you know were the tip…
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7. 20:09uniquely Eastern European conundrum that that you know opened up the need and and and the…
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9. 26:57kosher that work and anybody's should be yelled at meaning you're you're on on a on…
10. 30:09He says although it is important to pay attention that the star should be accurate says…

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