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# One should take the Matzahs the whole one on bottom the broken one in middle and another whole one on top and make the Bracha of HaMotzei. Then one should drop the bottom matzah which is whole and make the Bracha of Al Achilat Matzah. <Ref>S”A 475:1, Mishna Brurah 475:2 </ref>
==Selling Chametz==
# Then one should break off a piece from the top and middle Matzahs to have a Kezayit from each. <Ref>S”A 475:1 </ref>
# When selling Chametz one should write down one’s address, and provide access to get in by leaving the keys by the Rabbi, neighbors, or security guard. If one feels uncomfortable doing that one should at least write down one’s cell phone number at which one would be reachable over Pesach. <Ref> Rabbi Sobolofsky at [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759810/Rabbi_Zvi_Sobolofsky/Pesach_Issues_in_the_Workplace yutorah.org] between minutes 4 and 6 </ref>
# The matzah should be eaten while leaning. <Ref>S”A 475:1 </ref>
==Chametz which is sold==
# The Sephardic minhag is to dip the matzah in salt and the Ashkenazic minhag is not to dip the matzah in salt. <Ref>S”A and Rama 475:1, Mishna Brurah 475:4 explains that Ashkenazim don’t dip the matzah in salt so that the matzah can be seen as poor man’s bread.</ref>
# Chametz which one sells to a non-Jew for Pesach should be put away in a closet or another partition of 10 Tefachim and not opened on Pesach. Similarly one shouldn’t leave sold Chametz out in the refrigerator but rather it should be partitioned off with a wall of ten Tefachim. <Ref> Rabbi Sobolofsky at [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759810/Rabbi_Zvi_Sobolofsky/Pesach_Issues_in_the_Workplace yutorah.org] between minutes 6 and 8 </ref>
# There’s a mitzvah (which according to some is Deoritta) in eating more Matzah than the required amount. <Ref>Maharal in Gevurot Hashem chapter 48, Bach 472, Mikrei Kodesh siman 48, Sh”t Har Tzvi 2, and Natai Gavriel (vol 2, 90:26) hold that there’s a mitzvah of eating Matzah as much as one eats even beyond the actual requirement. See also the Emek Shelah (Yitro 53:4). Hagadat Be’er Miryam (pg 53) writes that another reason to eat more Matzah is because there’s a big confusion in the amount necessary and Matzah is a mitzvah Deoritta. </ref>
==Stocks of companies which own Chametz==
# Most permit measuring the required amounts for the Mitzvah of eating Matzah. <Ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 29:40 (also in Halichot Shlomo 9:7), Petach Dvir 306:7 </ref>Some are strict to require one to measure before Shabbat. <ref>Natai Gavriel (vol 2, 90:30) quoting S”A HaRav </ref>
# Some authorities hold that there's is no prohibition of owning Chametz to a shareholder of a compnay which owns Chametz on Pesach who has no say in the actions of the company, while others hold that one should sell the shares together with one's other Mechirat Chametz through the Rabbi. <ref> Piskei Teshuvot 440:1, http://www.vbm-torah.org/pesach/stocks.htm </ref>
# Some say that if there’s not enough Matzah in the three Matzahs of the head of house then one should get a piece of the upper matzah and then eat another Kezayit of Matzah. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 9:40 </ref>
# For someone who it’s difficult to eat that much Matzah one may dip the matzah in water for a second and then eat it. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo (pg 282 note 274) </ref>
# Since our Matzahs are thin and hard to eat 2 Kezayitim in Kedi Achilat Pras one should eat then one after another. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 9:41 </ref>
# The minhag is that one doesn’t need to acquire the Matzahs from the homeowner however the pious maintain this practice. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 9:4 </ref>
==Soft Matzahs==
# Some say that even for Ashkenazim it's permissible to have soft Matzahs and for those that it's difficult to eat hard matzah it's preferable to eat Soft Matzah. <ref> Rav Hershel Schachter [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759938/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Laws_and_Customs_of_Pesach YUTorah.org] between minutes 58 and 66 </ref>
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Selling Chametz

  1. When selling Chametz one should write down one’s address, and provide access to get in by leaving the keys by the Rabbi, neighbors, or security guard. If one feels uncomfortable doing that one should at least write down one’s cell phone number at which one would be reachable over Pesach. [1]

Chametz which is sold

  1. Chametz which one sells to a non-Jew for Pesach should be put away in a closet or another partition of 10 Tefachim and not opened on Pesach. Similarly one shouldn’t leave sold Chametz out in the refrigerator but rather it should be partitioned off with a wall of ten Tefachim. [2]

Stocks of companies which own Chametz

  1. Some authorities hold that there's is no prohibition of owning Chametz to a shareholder of a compnay which owns Chametz on Pesach who has no say in the actions of the company, while others hold that one should sell the shares together with one's other Mechirat Chametz through the Rabbi. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Rabbi Sobolofsky at yutorah.org between minutes 4 and 6
  2. ↑ Rabbi Sobolofsky at yutorah.org between minutes 6 and 8
  3. ↑ Piskei Teshuvot 440:1, http://www.vbm-torah.org/pesach/stocks.htm
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