Author Topic: How Much Did You Pay For A Pound Of Matzah (Read 176600 times)

Emkay · « **Reply #40 on:** March 22, 2016, 10:00:22 AM »

Quote from: miles lover on March 22, 2016, 03:28:39 AM

what's this moshiach seudah about ?

The Baal Shem Tov started it.

chevron · « **Reply #41 on:** March 22, 2016, 02:21:38 PM »

#1 it hurts my stomach.
#2 simply states it's a waste of $ and terrible social pressure imho, I don't think everyone really believes in these far out chumros that cost $.

Costs go up because people are making more, the esrog business is a cash cow and I oppose that. Worse yet, more chumros are shoved in jacking up the price. Where you once bought a lulav or hadasim, now you buy them in packages with hechsherim on it costing $$$. Sure there is a market for it but now it's the norm.

I bet rabbi blumenkrantz would have opposed it, waste of $ and causes people to not bother to learn simple halacha or even mentchlichkeit of helping another.

If you have dough to waste and no time or options to bake chabura etc go spend it.

But I fail to see how costs go up, it's not like they pay the Russian ladies much.

Rabbi wein once wrote how some satmar yungerman were bothering him about some hashgacha aspect and pushing him to hire them for it, he says he went to reb yoel and mentioned this and that it was really not an halachic requirements, so reb yoel said, true but these guys are just married and need parnassah, help them out with a job.

I'm all for gainful employment, but this is crushing the cost of Judaism.

I hear stories about the restaurants with no teuda in Israel that state they are kosher and the teuda is baloney, the mashgichim barely come and often it's no different than mafia you pay protection for nothing *

chevron · « **Reply #42 on:** March 22, 2016, 02:27:08 PM »

My post is aimed at the high and rising costs of hand made shmura matzah

ExGingi · « **Reply #43 on:** March 22, 2016, 02:48:44 PM »

Quote from: chevron on March 22, 2016, 12:00:19 AM

ust as I dont buy an esrog, I cant accept this gouging... look, if your rich and buy mehudar gasos tefillen I get it.. but dakos should not be more than normal wages... stop trying to get rich off normal folks working their butt's off trying to pay their bills and leading a frum lifestyle.

I don't think there can be any comparison between the price of Matzah and the price of Esrogim. Everyone knows that the price of an Esrog is EXTREMELY SUBJECTIVE (or as the saying goes, it is determined by the buyer, not by the Esrog). You will never see Esrogim sold by Costco!

Matzah on the other hand has some fixed costs that don't change, and then has variable costs depending on the demands of the Chabura (new Keilim, etc. etc. etc.).

I have resigned myself several years ago to only buy from a Yeshiva Chabura, that way I know my extra $ is at least subsidizing matzos for Talmidim or Staff of a Yeshiva.

MeirS · « **Reply #44 on:** March 22, 2016, 05:24:31 PM »

Quote from: ExGingi on March 22, 2016, 08:13:43 AM

Could you find a more respectful way to ask your question? I suggest that for your own dignity you edit your post, which I have truncated when quoting in order not to repeat.

+1

Is he a buddy of yours?

rediplus · « **Reply #45 on:** March 24, 2016, 09:33:05 PM »

$65 chareidim. One lb regular, one lb whole wheat. Thinnest tastiest matza out there. Problem is good luck getting enough whole ones in a lb.

ExGingi · « **Reply #46 on:** March 25, 2016, 11:43:12 AM »

Quote from: rediplus on March 24, 2016, 09:33:05 PM

$65 chareidim. One lb regular, one lb whole wheat. Thinnest tastiest matza out there. Problem is good luck getting enough whole ones in a lb.

I agree that Chareidim is thinnest, though Pupa are also extremely thin, but also taste like paper. When it comes to tastiest I have to vote for Crown Heights. Unfortunately, the taste is probably the only good thing about Crown Heights Matzos, but I have tried many different ones and the flavor of Crown Heights Matzos is simply the best. Of their Matzos the Spelt are best, followed by Whole Wheat, followed by regular.

In order to keep Matzos crispy, it's best to have the Matzos packed in 2lb corrugated boxes.

shmoe joe · « **Reply #47 on:** March 27, 2016, 10:59:44 AM »

Mesamchie Lev is selling $12 per pound from various companies for big familys!

tzifanya54 · « **Reply #48 on:** March 27, 2016, 07:06:47 PM »

Quote from: Denverite on March 21, 2016, 10:32:44 PM

Yeah that's amazing! Paid $14/lb for hand Shmura at Costco which I thought was great

Never seen hand matzah in Costco. I've seen machine though, which Costco was this?

CS1 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 27, 2016, 07:25:36 PM »

Quote from: rediplus on March 24, 2016, 09:33:05 PM

$65 chareidim. One lb regular, one lb whole wheat. Thinnest tastiest matza out there. Problem is good luck getting enough whole ones in a lb.

we get Charedi every year. About $28/lb for reg shleimim and about $32/lb for whole wheat, incl. shipping out of town. They are very thin and taste great.
The thinness saves your jaws, especially at Tzafun. We get funny looks and lots of questions when we carry 6 boxes onboard SW, instead of in check-in, to keep them whole,
"Are those very fancy cakes in those large white bakery boxes?!?"

David Smith · « **Reply #50 on:** March 27, 2016, 07:34:26 PM »

Quote from: chevron on March 22, 2016, 12:00:19 AM

I only eat matzxah by seder, day meal, shabbat, moshiach seuda.. scam it is.

Just as I dont buy an esrog, I cant accept this gouging... look, if your rich and buy mehudar gasos tefillen I get it.. but dakos should not be more than normal wages... stop trying to get rich off normal folks working their butt's off trying to pay their bills and leading a frum lifestyle.

I dont get along with my father at all but a few things I recall that changed my life, he mowed the lawn and painted a shull in CH free and he always lectured us about "mamon hekedesh" I think I was wasting napkins in the shull?

You got 2 buck chuck, terrenal as we call it 5 dollar feivel.. judaic based items need to come down in price

How much do you spend on wine? Crazy scam, isn't it? I'm sure you only drink a revi'is for kiddush each week, and the Daled Kosos on Pesach. You wouldn't want to support that scammy industry, would you?

ExGingi · « **Reply #51 on:** March 27, 2016, 08:51:55 PM »

Quote from: David Smith on March 27, 2016, 07:34:26 PM

How much do you spend on wine? Crazy scam, isn't it? I'm sure you only drink a revi'is for kiddush each week, and the Daled Kosos on Pesach. You wouldn't want to support that scammy industry, would you?

Now if you really want to talk about a scammy industry (and total waste of Yiddishe Gelt) just think back a few days at the Mishloach Monos industry.