Chametz of a young man that his father sold
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Shalom to the honored Rabbi,
When I was a bachur (over the age of 20), I owned bottles of whisky that were kept at my father’s, may he live and be well, and he included them each year in the sale of chametz together with his own whisky bottles, to a store that would sell actual chametz (which my father himself avoided buying).
In those years I did not perform a sale of chametz myself, since I did not have my own home, etc., and I also did not at all remember that my bottles were by him.
Now I have found out that he has bottles that are “mine”, and I wanted to ask what their status is with regard to “chametz that has passed over Pesach”.
Did his sale also take effect on my behalf even though he was not my explicit “agent”? Is it considered that I transferred ownership of them to him (I did not intend this, since I did not remember about them, but on the other hand I was living in his home and perhaps he was “authorized” to manage my property)? Or is it considered that they were fully mine the entire time, and the bottles must be destroyed?
Yeyasher koach,
thank you.
When I was a bachur (over the age of 20), I owned bottles of whisky that were kept at my father’s, may he live and be well, and he included them each year in the sale of chametz together with his own whisky bottles, to a store that would sell actual chametz (which my father himself avoided buying).
In those years I did not perform a sale of chametz myself, since I did not have my own home, etc., and I also did not at all remember that my bottles were by him.
Now I have found out that he has bottles that are “mine”, and I wanted to ask what their status is with regard to “chametz that has passed over Pesach”.
Did his sale also take effect on my behalf even though he was not my explicit “agent”? Is it considered that I transferred ownership of them to him (I did not intend this, since I did not remember about them, but on the other hand I was living in his home and perhaps he was “authorized” to manage my property)? Or is it considered that they were fully mine the entire time, and the bottles must be destroyed?
Yeyasher koach,
thank you.
Answer
Shalom u’vracha,
The sale performed by your father is effective for you as well.
As explained in Azmera LeShimcha, Pesach, vol. 2.
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