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# 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> | # 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> | ||
# One should make sure to sell one's chametz completely and not with a gift with a condition that it must be returned after [[Pesach]]. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 448:3 writes that one may not do a Matana Al Menat LeHachzir. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 114:6 agrees. Mishna Brurah 448:21 explains that even though usually a Matana Al Menat Lehachzir works to completely acquire something (such as Shulchan Aruch 558:4), by chametz because of the chumra of chametz one may not do a Matana Al Menat LeHachzir. </ref>However, one may assure the non-Jew that one will buy it back after [[Pesach]] and make it profitable for the non-Jew.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 114:6, Mishna Brurah 448:23</ref> | # One should make sure to sell one's chametz completely and not with a gift with a condition that it must be returned after [[Pesach]]. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 448:3 writes that one may not do a Matana Al Menat LeHachzir. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 114:6 agrees. Mishna Brurah 448:21 explains that even though usually a Matana Al Menat Lehachzir works to completely acquire something (such as Shulchan Aruch 558:4), by chametz because of the chumra of chametz one may not do a Matana Al Menat LeHachzir. </ref>However, one may assure the non-Jew that one will buy it back after [[Pesach]] and make it profitable for the non-Jew.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 114:6, Mishna Brurah 448:23</ref> | ||
# One who sells his Chametz, should not sell the containers which are holding the Chametz to the goy because if he does so, he may be required to dip them in the Mikveh again.<ref> Yechave Daat 3:24 </ref> If one did so, he should dip them in the mikveh after Pesach, without a beracha.<ref> Yechave Daat 3:24 </ref> | # One who sells his Chametz, should not sell the containers which are holding the Chametz to the goy because if he does so, he may be required to dip them in the Mikveh again.<ref>Chachmat Adam 73:3, Yechave Daat 3:24 </ref> If one did so, he should dip them in the mikveh after Pesach, without a beracha.<ref> Yechave Daat 3:24, Nitai Gavriel Pesach 1:44:8 </ref> | ||
# One may not sell one's chametz to a Jew who "converted" to another religion.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 114:7</ref> | # One may not sell one's chametz to a Jew who "converted" to another religion.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 114:7</ref> | ||
