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#One fulfills the mitzvah of destroying the chametz by flushing it down the toilet.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 445:4, Mishna Brurah 445:5. Kinyan Torah 2:86 quotes the Chazon Ish 118:3 that he reluctantly agrees that the modern toilet is similar to throwing it into the ocean. </ref> | #One fulfills the mitzvah of destroying the chametz by flushing it down the toilet.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 445:4, Mishna Brurah 445:5. Kinyan Torah 2:86 quotes the Chazon Ish 118:3 that he reluctantly agrees that the modern toilet is similar to throwing it into the ocean. </ref> | ||
# if one is throwing one's chametz into water one should crush it up first.<ref>Rabba and Rav Yosef argue whether it is necessary to crush up one's chametz before throwing it into water. Rabba holds it is necessary unless it is thrown into the Red Sea. Rav Yosef, however, holds it is not necessary except for certain type of chametz. Rashi explains for Rav Yosef for wheat kernels that became wet they need to be scattered and not left inside a bag. The Rambam Chametz Umatza 3:11 explains for Rav Yosef that hard chametz needs to be crushed. The Ran, Rosh, and Rabbenu Chananel 28a follow Rabba, while the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch O.C. 445:1 codify the opinion of Rav Yosef. Mishna Brurah advises being strict to crush all chametz to be stringent for the opinion of the Rosh.</ref> This applies even if one is destroying it before the sixth hour on Erev Pesach.<ref>Chazon Ish OC 118:3 proposes that since the reason to require crushing the chametz is that tashbitu means obliterating it from the world that is only necessary when the mitzvah of tashbitu applies. Before then, it can be removed from one's property in any way even if not obliterated from the world. According to Tosfot 12b that is only after the 7th hour and even according to Rashi as understood by the Rosh it is only for the sixth hour. However, according to the Tur's understanding of Rashi it applies even to the fifth hour and the minhag to burn chametz then is based on that approach. Therefore, based on that minhag it would be necessary to crush chametz in the fifth hour before putting it in the water in order to fulfill tashbitu. A similar approach is found in the Mekor Chaim 431 intro s.v. amnam. On the other hand, Rashi 28a and Maharam Chalavah explain that the concern is that chametz which isn't crushed could be found and eaten or acquired on pesach.</ref> | |||
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#If one puts chametz in one’s private garbage bin one should either pour Ajax on the Chametz to make it totally inedible,<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 4:56, [[Shevet Halevi]] 1:137. </ref> or put it in the street and declare that it be ownerless in front of three people.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 445:7, Chelkat Yaakov 3:165 </ref> One can also include them in the sale of the chametz to a non-Jew but then they cannot be used by him over [[pesach]].<ref>Be'er Moshe 1:41; 3:74 </ref> | #If one puts chametz in one’s private garbage bin one should either pour Ajax on the Chametz to make it totally inedible,<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 4:56, [[Shevet Halevi]] 1:137. </ref> or put it in the street and declare that it be ownerless in front of three people.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 445:7, Chelkat Yaakov 3:165 </ref> One can also include them in the sale of the chametz to a non-Jew but then they cannot be used by him over [[pesach]].<ref>Be'er Moshe 1:41; 3:74 </ref> | ||
