Gavaad Bnei Brak HaGaon HaRav Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau Shlita will be traveling to the Palmachim water facility along with shluchim from Gedolei Yisrael Shlita, including Maran Rav Wosner, Maran Rav Shteinman, and Maran Rav Kanievsky, following reports there may be problems regarding water in Bnei Brak.
The Gavaad wishes to get a first-hand look of what the situation is to ensure the matter can be addressed before yomtov.
No further information was available at this time.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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WHAT IS THE POSSIBLE PROBLEM???
a problem that has come up in the past is being that chometz is not batel ( nullified)afilu be’elef (even if its a 1 to a thousand ratio) so if someone were to throw a piece of bread in to the kinneret it should make all the drinking water in Israel Chometz
I was told that till this day there are people who fill up water for the whole yom tov from before because before yom tov chametz is butul.
#1: Somebody might have thrown a big challah into the Kinneret. And we all know that chometz is not bottul even with a mashe-hu.
This non-problem was raised several years ago.
Keep your towel and don’t panic.
Nah! That is not the reason. Palmachim is in the south of Israel. For water from the Kinnert to get there, it is piped by Mikorot, the water company. First it is purified and filtered. NO fish, no dirt, no crumbs.
Even if the that Challah is still floating in the Kinneret, the water in the pipes has no crumbs b’ain and for certain does not give off any taste.
Therefore there must be some other problem.
BTW, I live in Jerusalem and yes, I remember a very frum Jerusalmy had his own water for drinking purposes for pesach, but not for bathing or washing dishes.