By COLlive reporter
The Crown Heights Beis Din (Badatz) has announced that the annual sale of chometz for local residents will be conducted online because of health instructions to stop coronavirus.
“Normally, we are meticulous (mehader) to meet the Rabbi in person and formally authorize him to arrange the sale for us,” it was announced.
“However, in this medical emergency, it is impossible to set up a safe system for in-person Sale of Chometz without endangering the community further. The Rabbonim have therefore instructed that all Mechiras Chometz this year shall be by electronic authorization.”
A special page on the website of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC) was set up to facilitate the sale. It also offers an option to financially support the members of Badatz – Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, Rabbi Yaacov Schwei and Rabbi Yosef Braun.
The form gives an option to choose the name of the Rabbi through whom you wish to sell your Chometz. There will also be an option if you wish to make the customary payment to the Rov through Paypal or Cashapp.
The public was asked to submit the form online before Tuesday Night, eve of 14 Nissan April 7, 2020 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time.
Click here to sell your chometz online:
chcentral.org/mechira
Normally it’s by doing “Hagbah” on a handkerchief or something.
The kinyan with a gartel, pen etc is a chumra and not needed
Not everyone is computer literate to do it this way. There needs to be a way to do it by phone
Maybe the Rabbonim can arrange for the sale and borrowing of new Keilim to a Goy, which cannot currently be toiveled…
I did twila new kelim in Weinstein Address: 327 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213
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Yes, if they can please add in a option regarding the Sale for New Keilim which cannot currently be toiveled…
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There is no need to sell keilim, you can simply stop a goy passing on the street and give it to them, and then borrow it back. In order to keep your distance you can put it down and back away, then ask the goy to pick it up and put it down again and back away, and then you take it back. When it becomes possible to tovel it, do so without a brocha.