When shopping at the Market Place in Crown Heights, there was a product on the Kosher for Pesach shelf for a week that is NOT Kosher for Pesach.
If you purchased the Lieber’s Chocolate Flavored syrup, please be aware that there is NO Passover certification on it.
After becoming aware of the mistake, store managers said the item was mistakenly placed on the shelf by a non-Jewish worker.
Pictures below of one that was purchased a few days ago and was on the store shelves until Friday morning.
In general, its is recommended to check all items purchased before Pesach to make sure that they are labeled as Kosher for Pesach.
Many chassidim have assorted pessach chumros that the Rebbe did not keep.
These chumros Become “Lubavitch Custom” even though it was not the Rebbe’s custom.
Hence, some Chassidim are more “Lubavitch” than the Rebbe himself.
There is an expression like this in Yiddish about “a person who is more religious than G-d.”
What is the source that Rebbe ate Schmerling chocolate? I assume if he did, them all chassidim would and should also eat it on pessach, unless they are frummer than the Rebbe!
Actually if you find kitniyos in your possession on pesach you need not destroy it
With all due respect to Rabbi Yochanan Gurary, he does not speak for Lubavitch, as “Lubavitch” does not have any such minhag. The Rebbe ate Schmerling chocolate on Pesach.
To comment 2, Im chabad and i eat all processed foods wats wrong with it i have coffee milk potato starch everything you can think of come.
Bought an item in the Pesach section this week that was not Kosher l’Pesach.
Check Check Check Check!!! In the end it is your achrayus!!
that might work in costco, cuz you need a membership to shop … but that wont work here… many people pay in cash, and theres not really a way to trace people just by their credit card info
Im sorry, but I have a very picky todler who will only drink his milk with a bit of choclate syrup. He is underwheight, and yes I do use choclate syrup for him on pesach. Thank you for notifying us.
Bottom line, as with every food purchased both Pesach and all year round, items need to be checked for hashgacha, just as we always did when we were out of town. Many become too dependent on the storekeepers to be their kashrus ‘eyes’. This is something all children need to be taught as well. Check before you purchase and certainly before you eat.
the store can go through its sales and see who bought this item from them and call them to notify them of this problem.
I once purchased an item from Costco. a few weeks later I got a check from Costco in the mail, reimbursing me for this purchase because the product wasn’t up to their standards (the cashews were broken)
I do not use any products for pesach, however since my house is already cleaned I figured I’ll buy products for shabbos. They have chometz and pesach in the same isle on two sides. The cashiers let anyone bring any food through . I watched a flour bust and then pesach items brought through next. Even the paper goods are not clean there. Growing up in crown heights every store had a separate pesach store! Comes pesach and the chometz isn’t either covered properly! There is no hashgocha in these stores!
as lubavich “kitnios” is treated like regular chomets
Sorry #2 everyone eats processed at Pesach! Wine and matza are processed. I bet there are many other items you eat that are processed too . You can’t be so adamant.
This once happened to us with the very same item from a supermarket in Flatbush.
Unfortunately we served it to our guests drizzled over dessert.
Get off your holier than thou horse.
Lubavitchers do what Lubavitchers do. If a majority buy processed then Lunavicthers buy processes. This is not a halacha and the Rebbe did not make a campaign out of it and in fact ate certain processed items too.
When it comes to Pesach, once Halacha and written minhagim have been satisfied, everyone is free to do as they see fit.
a lot of people buy kosher la Pesach products for before Pesach, after their house is pesachdig. This way their kids have semi-normal food for the week before Pesach (we do this).
“Not Kosher for Pesach” is not the same as stam chometz.
Please don’t alarm people unnecessarily in this already fraught preparation period…
Wonder if any of the other ingredients are actual Chometz. Obviously problematic either way.
Dovber
You should always check for kosher certification, especially when buying for Pesach.
sorry, but really its time lubavitchers acted like lubavitchers. rabbi yochanan gurary said it clearly this week: WE DO NOT USE ANYTHING PROCESSED. END. FINISHED. we could live a week without all of this. PLEASE!!
The responsibility is on the us the customers.