Pesach Prep Pondering

[gnomi]

If I have some (left over from last Pesach) sugar packets (marked OK-P), do I have to move them into my snack drawer and sell them with my chametz, or can I carry them over from last Pesach to this Pesach? And what about the teabag that is sitting in my pencil tray from last Pesach?

Ah, the great questions of pre-Pesach.

Comments

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Chametz is, indeed, the stuff that one cannot eat or own on Pesach. The synagogue isn't selling it to us, but rather facilitating the sale of it from the community members to a non-Jew. We sell the chametz for the length of the holiday, and then it is sold back at the end of Passover.

We give money to the synagogue to have them act as our agent in this transaction.