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So I am in the store on Chol Hamoed and there is a lady (probably a shiksa, but possibly a Jewess) who asks me to pass her the bagels on the top shelf because she can’t reach them.
Am I allowed to pass them to her?1. Is this called benefiting from chametz?
2. Is this lifnei iver? Assisting someone to do an aveira?I heard in a shiur from a prominent posek (he gave the source for this halacha but I don’t remember it) that it is assur to handle chometz on Pesach because we are concerned that you might come to eat it.
In this case I am obviously not going to eat it…
If it’s assur, it’s assur.
מגן אברהם תמ”ו
If it’s assur, it’s assur.
There are exceptions; perhaps this is another?
The chametz is sealed in the bag, so I would not be handling the actual chametz.
That’s called handling the chometz.
If you accidentally knocked over some chametz onto the floor in a store, would you leave it lying on the floor and make a Chillul Hashem?
If you accidentally turned a light off on Shabbos in a public place, can you turn it back on in order not to make a c”H?
If you accidentally knocked over a bottle of scotch in a store on Pesach, and the contents spilled, are you allowed to pay for it?
You wouldn’t be buying the Scotch, you’d be paying for the damage.
You are not allowed to touch Chometz.
I don’t think you have to be חושש that a woman who appears to be a Goy looking to buy chometz on Pesach is a Jewess. There is a רוב goyim in the city.
Are roiv people who look like goyim and are unashamedly buying bagels, yidden?
Rav Belsky said that you have to be certain beyond all doubt that he is really a goy.
Because it is a רוב שיכול לברר?
How about…why are you in a store that is selling chometz?
ShopRite in BP is not owned by goyim. In the 1960’s (at least here in NYC), yidden generally did not shop in the big supermarkets on chol hamoed pesach.
mik5: I am taking your questions seriously. ShopRite supermarkets are franchised so technically each store is independently owned (although one operator can have more than 1 store). So in answer to your questions:
Shoprite is owned by Yidden? the one on McDonald Ave. – Yes
Who are not frum? To my knowledge they are not frum.
Really? Is there chametz for sale in Shoprite right now? – In that ShopRite, yes. They sell their chometz thru Rabbi Beck and as R’ Moshe TZATZAL Paskened, the mechira is still a valid mechira for what was purchased before Pesach.
I am shocked and appalled, dismayed, distressed, scandalized, disgusted and deeply bothered by the language in the OP.
What if you handed her one of those claws on a stick so she could reach it on her own.
Is that indirectly handling the chametz? What if you do not own that claw on a stick?
I thought a company may br considered owned by nonJews if the stores has shares in the stock market?
Can you say that the lady was not Jewish because her hair was uncovered?
Did you know if she was married?
Maybe the OP had to buy something in an emergency that wasn’t carried in a store that does not sell chametz
In the 1960’s and 1970’s (at least here in Brooklyn) the common custom was to avoid supermarkets that sold chometz during Pesach (even A&P which wAs owned by non Jews). Again, it was a stringency kept by most yidden. I am not sure when we became less stringent in this issue although my family still abides by it.
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