#269 Allowing a housekeeper in your sold home on Pesach to eat and feed your cat Chometz
Question
We are going away for Pesach and will be selling all the chametz in the house. We have a housekeeper and a cat. She will be eating lunch from the chametz in the house and will be feeding the cat from the cat food in the house. Any problems?
Answer
Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a advised that you should sell the house, the chometz contents and the cat to the housekeeper. Besides the usual acquisitive acts of kinyan done on the house and the chometz contents, an aditional kinyan kesef and a kinyan hagvooh or lifting should be done on the cat. She would then be feeding her cat in her house with her own chometz.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: March 28, 2013
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