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Buying Chametz after Pesach
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I bought chametz from a store after Pesach, but afterwards, I found out that the store is owned by a Jew and the store did not sell its chametz over Pesach. What should I do? 👉🏼Watch as Rabbi Eli Gersten, recorder of OU psak and policy, explains the answer in the latest episode of our popular series: Kosher Kitchen Mishaps. #oukosher #kosher #kashrut #chametz #pesach #passover
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If somebody accidentally bought KTS
after Pes from a store, a Jewish owned
store that hadn't sold their KTS, what
should they do? Naturally, a person
would want to return it to the store, is
that permitted? Are you allowed to
return the KTS that you bought or is
that considered also that you're
deriving benefit from the KTS by
returning it to the store? So, there's
really two issues to be discussed here
in terms of deriving benefit. So, post
can say that that's not called deriving
benefit because the person sold me
something which they had no right to
sell. It had no value. Even though
they're not going to return me my money
unless I give them back the item, host
can write that that is permitted. The
mug of Ram though brings up a different
issue which is that by returning the
item to the store, it might create a
situation where another Jew might come
in and buy it. Maybe that should not be
allowed. Other postkim disagree and they
say that it's not a concern. The Kums
was there from before. I'm just
returning it back to the situation that
it was in before. And there are those
who would say it's better to just throw
it away and avoid all the questions. And
the others that say no, it's perfectly
acceptable to return it to the store.
There usually other doubts here as well.
Was the that I'm returning was it owned
by the Jew over Pes? Sometimes there's
there's a doubt over here. Maybe it was
it was received only after Pesak in
which case it wasn't included in the
penalty at all. So therefore, for many
reasons, you would be allowed to return
it to the