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

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

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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2. 1:01interpreted chametz very literally. Something sour, something vinegar. And therefore, the Karaites would not eat sour…

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