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Stock in a non-kosher food compony, or sells chametz on Pesach?
Although companies like McDonald's sell non-kosher food, including meat and milk that is mixed together (from which it is prohibited to benefit) most halachic authorities maintain that it is permitted to own such stocks since you have no rights of ownership in the actual products; rather, you only have dividends from the company's investments. As for owning stocks during Passover in a company that makes chametz, since the stockholder has no right to do anything at the plant on his own accord, and certainly has no right to destroy the chametz, he is not in violation of owning chametz.
Note: Israel changes to "shaon kayitz," summer time early Friday morning, March 24.
Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Was ordained at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois, and led congregations in Chicago and Dallas prior to making Aliyah in 1992. He directs the Jewish Outreach Center in Ra'anana, helping to facilitate the spiritual absorption of new olim.
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Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 17- "Miracles Don't Make a Messiah (87)
After learning about the unique "mass-revelation" at Sinai, the question was asked: what about the Christian claim that their "messiah also did miracles in front of people. The class summarizes the 3 significant differences between that claim and Israel's "mass-revelation".
