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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #60 on: April 14, 2016, 03:31:20 PM »
why is there an apostrophe in chumra's?
THANK YOU! Been driving me crazy.

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #61 on: April 14, 2016, 03:45:59 PM »
why is there an apostrophe in chumra's?
I was just being machmir by adding the apostrophe to settle like those that hold that its needed!
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #62 on: April 14, 2016, 03:51:55 PM »
I was just being machmir by adding the apostrophe to settle like those that hold that its needed!
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #63 on: April 14, 2016, 04:05:09 PM »
Like this gem:
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Note: In general, OU-“P” grocery items  with no heimish  hashgocha on package is a usually a  preferred pesach product. Otherwise the OU, will rely on some of the Heimish Hashgochas, and we know the concerns.
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #64 on: April 14, 2016, 04:36:50 PM »
As a young couple, we were more machmir/ had a few more hiddurim than our parents.  They weren't things that imposed on our parents (much) so we were just frummer and more holy than them.   ::)
Our older children are girls, so it took a long time for our son to bring home his hiddurim.  Pretty much only that we should kasher our granite counter and stuff with a stone.  Good thing they sell kashering kits, so that became our new way to kasher.
Then our girls began to get married.  And brought their husbands to my house for Pesach. I got 2 new ones in 1 year (B"H) and was scared silly to hear what I wouldn't be able to cook with.  Not bad.  I now preboil all the sugar that will go into public food, squeeze my own lemons, and only buy 1 hechsher of meat.
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #65 on: April 14, 2016, 04:43:38 PM »
Once I saw a Brisker guy carry out his bathroom sink/vanity and toilet to the curb for garbage pickup a week before Pesach. I thought to myself, now there's a new chumra! Turns out, he was just remodeling the bathroom.
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #66 on: April 14, 2016, 04:49:40 PM »
As a young couple, we were more machmir/ had a few more hiddurim than our parents.  They weren't things that imposed on our parents (much) so we were just frummer and more holy than them.   ::)
Our older children are girls, so it took a long time for our son to bring home his hiddurim.  Pretty much only that we should kasher our granite counter and stuff with a stone.  Good thing they sell kashering kits, so that became our new way to kasher.
Then our girls began to get married.  And brought their husbands to my house for Pesach. I got 2 new ones in 1 year (B"H) and was scared silly to hear what I wouldn't be able to cook with.  Not bad.  I now preboil all the sugar that will go into public food, squeeze my own lemons, and only buy 1 hechsher of meat.

Can you please explain this one?

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #67 on: April 14, 2016, 05:14:32 PM »
Once I saw a Brisker guy carry out his bathroom sink/vanity and toilet to the curb for garbage pickup a week before Pesach. I thought to myself, now there's a new chumra! Turns out, he was just remodeling the bathroom.
I know someone who scheduled their kitchen remodel to end around Pesach, so they got 1 year without covering everything in sight.

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #68 on: April 14, 2016, 05:37:47 PM »
I'm sure my father has the craziest pesach Minhagim!

1. No talking during the Seder! Not even Divrei Torah. He just reads the Haggadah.

2. No eating any foods that weren't available in "Der Alter Heim". So since carrots weren't available this early in the season- no carrots!

3. One counter for unpeeled, unwashed fruits/veggies. A second counter for washed but unpeeled produce. Only once they are peeled can they go on the regular counters.

I always tease him that when cutting, say a lemon, the knife is first touching the chometz peel and then cutting through the skin, touching the fruit- thus contaminating the fruit!

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #69 on: April 14, 2016, 05:47:08 PM »

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #70 on: April 14, 2016, 05:48:35 PM »
I know someone who scheduled their kitchen remodel to end around Pesach, so they got 1 year without covering everything in sight.

But if he hadn't told you that it was just for convenience, and say he were a person of some prominence, in a few years you might tell some Artscroll writer about what you saw and before you know it "anshei yerayim" would observe the chumra of remodeling their kitchens every year. Tovoi alaihem bracha
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #71 on: April 14, 2016, 07:46:54 PM »
only organic fruits
matzoh-$150 a lb
no oil

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #72 on: April 14, 2016, 07:55:28 PM »
We have to make a no discussion thread too...

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Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #73 on: April 14, 2016, 07:58:26 PM »
A lot of Chumra's people do is for Bitul, they are being Mevatel the Chometz before Pesach because on Pesach there is no Bitul and since Chometz is the Aveira with a Mashehu, so they a are trying to prevent that in any way possible

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #74 on: April 14, 2016, 08:13:01 PM »
A lot of Chumra's people do is for Bitul, they are being Mevatel the Chometz before Pesach because on Pesach there is no Bitul and since Chometz is the Aveira with a Mashehu, so they a are trying to prevent that in any way possible
A lot of people don't drink tap water on Pesach as well, do to this concern
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Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #75 on: April 14, 2016, 08:21:20 PM »
A lot of people don't drink tap water on Pesach as well, do to this concern
Yup, since the water comes from a big reservoir  there is a likelihood that there is mixed Chometz that will not get Butel when it reaches the tap, a Mashehu is a Mashehu, it doesn't have to be visible

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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #76 on: April 14, 2016, 08:55:02 PM »
only organic fruits
matzoh-$150 a lb
no oil
Isn't chometz organic?
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #77 on: April 14, 2016, 08:58:32 PM »
But if he hadn't told you that it was just for convenience, and say he were a person of some prominence, in a few years you might tell some Artscroll writer about what you saw and before you know it "anshei yerayim" would observe the chumra of remodeling their kitchens every year. Tovoi alaihem bracha
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
« Reply #78 on: April 14, 2016, 09:18:24 PM »
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Re: Craziest pesach chumra's!!
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