{"id":30033,"date":"2016-04-22T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=30033"},"modified":"2016-04-22T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:13:18","slug":"selling-passover-chametz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/04\/22\/selling-passover-chametz\/30033\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Chametz for Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eight-day Jewish festival of Passover begins tonight (April 22) at sundown. To prepare for the holiday, traditional Jews have searched their homes for any yeast or leaven and then have given it away, donated it to charity, burned it, or authorized a rabbi to sell it for them. Rabbi Yosef Landa of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/\">Chabad.org<\/a> explains the ancient prohibition against chametz or leaven and the very modern way of selling it online as part of observing Passover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the festival of Passover approaches, observant Jews search their homes for any yeast or leaven and then give it away, donate it to charity, burn it, or authorize a rabbi to sell it for them to a non-Jewish buyer. \u201cPeople who don\u2019t share our faith are helping Jewish people in the observance of their faith,\u201d says Rabbi Yosef Landa of Chabad.org. <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/04\/22\/selling-passover-chametz\/30033\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":30048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-belief-and-practice","topics-faith-and-spirituality","faith-jewish","spotlight-passover-seder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Selling Chametz for Passover | April 22, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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