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==Buying Chametz for Workers== | ==Buying Chametz for Workers== | ||
# One may not provide Chametz for workers to eat nor should one bring one’s workers to a Chametz restaurant even if one isn’t paying for the food. However, if the non-Jewish worker goes to the restaurant to eat it’s permissible to pay for his bill as long as one didn’t order the food for him. <Ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 64:30 and 67:30 </ref> | # One may not provide Chametz for workers to eat nor should one bring one’s workers to a Chametz restaurant even if one isn’t paying for the food. However, if the non-Jewish worker goes to the restaurant to eat it’s permissible to pay for his bill as long as one didn’t order the food for him.<Ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 64:30 and 67:30 </ref> | ||
==Insuring Chametz on Pesach== | |||
# It is permitted for a Jewish insurance company to offer insurance to a non-Jew even if they include chametz in that insurance policy. The reason it is permitted is because the Jew does not really own the chametz. Even though it is forbidden for a Jew to accept the responsibility for a non-Jew's chametz that is only true when it is in the Jew's domain. However, there is no halachic issue with a Jew taking responsibility for chametz of a non-Jew in that non-Jew's property.<ref>Magen Avraham 440:1 permits taking responsibility for a non-Jew's chametz when the chametz remains in the property of the owner. Chok Yakov 440:6 is only strict if the Jew once took the non-Jew's chametz and then returned it to his property, but if he never took it into his property it is certainly permitted. Mishna Brurah 440:7 agrees with the Magen Avraham. [https://www.ou.org/holidays/owning-stock-company-possesses-chametz-pesach/ Rabbi Dr. Asher Weiss] explains that based on the above sources a Jewish insurance company offering a policy for a non-Jew which includes their chametz is permitted.</ref> | |||
# It is permitted for a Jewish insurance company to offer insurance to a Jew even if that Jew includes chametz on Pesach in that policy.<ref>Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Halichot Shlomo 6:1 permits offering insurance for chametz since that merely entails paying for its loss or theft monetarily. It does not involve any responsibility to actually watch or guard the chametz. Therefore it is not similar to the prohibition for a Jew to take responsibility for chametz on Pesach.</ref> | |||
==Chametz Gift on Pesach== | ==Chametz Gift on Pesach== | ||
# If a non-Jew gives a Jew a present containing Chametz one may not accept such a gift on [[Pesach]]. <Ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 67:30 and 68:30 </ref> | # If a non-Jew gives a Jew a present containing Chametz one may not accept such a gift on [[Pesach]]. <Ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [http://www.ou.org/torah/article/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5771 OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 67:30 and 68:30 </ref> | ||
