(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE)
In the following pictorial essay, we wee Magen David Adom Jerusalem Chief Shlomo Petrover and Deputy Commander Avi Hovav selling MDA Jerusalem’s chametz to Jerusalem Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita.
Petrover is on the far left and Hovav on the far right.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: קבוצת רוטרניק)
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3 Responses
the Rabbi doesn’t keep pesach?
I sure hope they didn’t sell it to R’ Amar. I think you mean they made him a shliach to sell to a goy
Your title and article text contain a whoops.
MDA is shown authorizing Rabbi Amar to sell MDA’s chometz to a non-Jew.
Rabbis are Jewish. They are not permitted to own chometz on Pesach. In this circumstance, the Jewish chometz owner performs a kinyan (see the MDA personnel lifting the rabbi’s object?) thereby appointing the Rabbi as his agent (shaliach) to sell the chometz to someone (a non-Jew) who is permitted to own chometz during Pesach.