The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
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I love how ancient religious laws are interpreted so that nobody has to actually do anything
Yea its pretty funny, in judaism you are not allowed to use electricity or fire on Saturday so some families pay a non jewish guy to use the electricity for them, like turning the light switch, turn on the oven or stove.
@@MazalTuv Unless you are off grid, in which case no one has to work to provide the electricity.
Plus, they shouldn't do that, because the law is to not work and not make anyone else work.
@@MazalTuv that doesn’t work though because by being where light is they’re using the light to see, therefore using the electricity
I'm Jewish and I do too.
Another famous example of this is the eruv
The "it's not mine, I'm holding it for a friend" defense. Classic.
It’s still “within thy borders”
Possession is 9/10 of the law
@@matthew8153 He apparently also leases the land the chametz is kept in as well, so it's his movable property in an area rented out to him.
@@memesthatmakeyouwannadie3133 lmao
Genocide of other people is TIGHT!
I had the same thought 💀 Saying “I’m holding it for a friend” to god
Stop telling people we are friends
How does 3.6M channel have 2 likes and two comments?
Lol How did this comment not get any traction
@@AurosmaranaMohanty becuz he was driving without the tires duh
:(
But you are
I learned about this from my Jewish friends in high school and was so enamored by the idea I managed to convince the local congregation to let me be the bread buyer. I would inevitably make jokes about being the "king of bread" every year 😁
Seems like something cool to do if you have Jewish friends. Helps them out after all. The next level is getting paid to be the non-Jew who turns the lights on and off and operates elevators. I forget the correct term, but sounds like a good deal as a job if you can do it correctly.
@@extragoogleaccount6061 In the old days the jewish villagers in the old lands of Europe would have a Shabbos goyim to help stoking fires and so on for the sabbath. My family used to be bakers and so their good friend and neighbour would help out and get some free bread for their troubles. All gone now of course but it used to be a thing.
So if i wanted to implement the slavery laws in torah and own all the people in Israel! would they be so keen on following the laws of the bible then? 🤦♂🤣
They cheat on their gods laws as proven in the video and also other ways we know! So im getting they wont follow their own religion on that! 🤦♂🤣
And then you refused to sell it back and your evil plan was realized muahahaha
@@extragoogleaccount6061 "goy shel shabbat" (meaning 'a non-jew for Saturday')
I could live dozens of lifetimes, yet never be bigger breadwinner than Hussein Jaber
*loaves of times
You win the internet today. 😂
maybe you could if you lived a bakers dozen of lifetimes
You deserve a pulitzer
haha
Passover is 8 days around the world, but 7 days for the people living in Israel (it's a video for another time, it has to do with the fact that in the olden days in Israel they used to set every lunar month as either a 29 or 30 day month, and news of the new month did not reach out of the county on time, so they weren't 100% sure which day was the holiday so they celebrate 2 days out of Israel - just in case - but at this point that's already how it's done.)
And then there's Reform Judaism which also only celebrates 7 days even in the diaspora.
I’m only commenting so hopefully your comment blows up more and Sam sees it 🤟🏻
Thank you for making this comment, picked that up right away in the video! Sam make another video about this ^
yet no one talks about how it's technically celebrated at the wrong time most years nowdays because the lunar month isn't being followed even in israel
This year however it was actually eight days in the sense that you couldn’t buy back your Chametz at the end of the holiday because the holiday ended as Shabbat started.
As a Jew, I knew EXACTLY what the title meant. And I don't keep the Chametz in my house. I usually give it away to my friends, with the express permission to keep and eat or give it away as they see fit. (I really should get my act together, and just donate the stuff to a local food bank.) I did do the buying/selling thing when my daughter was old enough to understand the concepts of "My candy" and "Candy Permanence". We would sell "her candy" to a friend and then buy it back. Did this for a few years, until she was old enough to understand, "this is kinda cheating and we really don't need all this candy."
Same as a Jew I also knew what this video was about just from the title .. we usually give away all our chametz and just start over after passover
If you gave it to a food bank is it possible to buy back whatever is un eaten?
You could also not do that, but I guess religion is more important than logic and science that tell us there is most likely no god and there is surely no afterlife.
@@HillelFriedler It's called a donation, and it would be very, very, very tacky to ask for it back.
Clearly I'm missing something. This is bread. Bread doesn't last 8 days - unless you put it in the freezer. SO why would anyone want the - probably stale - bread back?
I actually wondered who buys all the Chametz each year. Just one minor detail you left out, he actually buys all the space that the Chametz is stored in. so you need your Chametz to be in a dedicated place in order for it to be sold.
Interesting. I saw someone in another comment say that they had to sell their property with the bread. But it sounds like that is only somewhat true. As in you don't sell your house because you move the bread into a "dedicated" spot as you said?
Also if you happen to know, he didn't explain how this works at businesses and restaurants. Seems like a Jewish restaurant wouldn't be able to sell bread during passover if they don't own it?
@@extragoogleaccount6061 Jewish restaurants in Israel wouldn't want to sell bread during Passover, regardless of whether they have it there or not.
@@extragoogleaccount6061 There would be no one buying your bread because everyone is Jewish and can’t have it either so you’d waste money making all that unsold bread.
We don't sell the space, we rent it to the non-Jew so he can use it to store his chametz.
@@avrahamgoldberg9731 tomato tomato
What I reaally love about HAI videos is that all the titles sound like clickbait but then they usually just _aren't_
Dunno why, but I read your comment in the voice of Sam and it sounds like it would fit right into the introduction of a HAI video :D
Surprised that the solution isn’t to instigate a holiday just before passover entirely dedicated to eating bread.
Purim, the holiday you're looking for is Purim. Part of the celebration is to give out Gifts of food. Mind you, this does mean that some people do use it to offload their access on to other people.
It just so happens that there's a holiday celebrated originally by the Maghrebi Jewish community and these days basically all of Israeli Jews (by visiting a Maghrebi origin family hosting) called the Mimouna, which occurs immediately following Passover. The holiday is literally all about eating as much sweet bread and candy as possible, with the most important dish being Mofletta which is basically a very sugary sweet crepe, with the entire point of the holiday being celebrating returning to eating regular breads
Not quite the same as your proposed holiday but it has the spirit
Sounds horrifically unhealthy. Bread is poison.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou oh it's extremely unhealthy, everyone gains weight after it. But man is the candy and mouflettas good after a week of Matza. Worth it.
@@danib577 On one hand, I feel like all Jews ought to strive to be as healthy as possible in order to "strike back" at those who've prematurely ended the lives of our ancestors for centuries. On the other hand, Israel does have the world's 8th-highest life expectancy, and I suppose there is some wisdom in enjoying life as much as possible with those sorts of horrors largely behind us.
Fun fact: Chametz does not just refer to bread. It refers to anything derived from 5 grains - wheat, barley, rye, spelt, and oat - that comes in contact with water (from the time it's removed from the ground) and sits for 18 minutes before being cooked. This, sadly, inlcudes beer, whiskey, etc. So while I most likely will not have any actual bread in my house, it is not practical to get rid of all my alcohol and other food staples. In order to avoid an annual serious financial loss, we are permitted to sell our chametz to a non-Jew.
We also rent the space where the chametz is so that it can remain there and not be in our possession. It is a legal sale and the buyer can come take the chametz if he chooses. In fact, if I go away for the holiday, I'm supposed to leave a key with someone who can let this buyer into my house to collect his chametz if he chooses to.
what happens if u let the grain sit for 17 minutes, pull it out for 1 minute, put it back in,then repeat
@@God-ch8lq
It doesn’t matter. You can put the grain in water for only a few seconds, take it out and leave it for 19 minutes. Then it’s still chametz.
Excuse my ignorance, but this wouldn't include unleavened flat breads which are just mixed with water and cooked immediately after? Same thing with basic pottages made out of grain and cooked immediately, correct?
Isn't that completely useless? Like... you're basically guiding someone to commit your sin instead of you... even if they're not religious, shouldn't you try to not make other's commit your sin? Imagine I pay someone to murder a person - did I just follow religious law because I myself didn't kill anyone? Either stand behind what you believe fully or just go with not finding exploitative loopholes as if the book is a lawyer's contract. I genuinely can't understand how someone believes this will please god.
Not gonna lie I'd probably take a beer lmao
“I’m not going to show you an actual map because I don’t feel like being cancelled today”
I spit my coffee out 😂
Me too!
He did cover Palestine in bread while talking about Israel which is a huge disrespect but we Arabs don’t like to be dramatic
Imma just dislike and leave
@@agazzii Very based, brother. One day, all will be returned. ☝🏽
@@tacitus_ Incha’a Allah
My contract law professor offered to buy the bread from the Jews in our class for passover if we wanted. I was raised Jewish, but I was never religious and I am an atheist, so I didn't take him up on it.
He explained that you had to take a real risk that he wouldn't sell you the bread back (it was actually a lesson on contract law, afterall). I would argue, though, that the benefit of title to my bread for a week without posession is worth about the same as a week's interest on a dollar, making it a fair deal even if it is explicitly temporary.
but.. the bread would just rot. wouldn't that be.. very dumb?
@@pre-d Not in a week
@@torg2126 Unless you freeze your bread, it will usually grow mold within a week. Even if it doesn't grow mold, it probably won't taste very good by the end.
EDIT: That's also assuming you bought your bread _right_ before Passover with no intention of eating any of it. Assuming people don't do that, the bread would already be at least a couple days old by the start of Passover.
@@EebstertheGreat depends on the bread. More natural breads won’t last a week. The mass produced stuff in the US Generally will last a week.
@@pre-d You're not thinking like a Jew (I am Jewish and I don't mean that in the antisemitic way the phrase sounds, I mean in the way the Torah and its MANY loopholes get interpreted by Rabbis.)
You see, since you're supposed to commemorate the myth that the bread didn't rise (I'm culturally Jewish, but I'm also an atheist, so... myth), you need to not possess anything that could rise. Some Jews will go through their homes and inspect everything for any crumbs of bread to clean the house. It is a whole ritual where you sweep your home woth a feather.
But that's a pain in the ass, so other Jews skip that and sell the bread like they show in this video. The sale covers even little crumbs or other products that contain leavening agents, even if you just missed a dried yeast packet or something. It isn't all about bread that may get moldy, its everything that's banned. And what is banned is based on a weird mix of modern science and old ideas from before they knew how bread rose. They presumed that bread rises because time passes. So matzah has to be baked within 17 minutes of when the batch is made or they have to throw it out... even though there are no leveaning agents in the dough anyway.
Religious Jews tend to have very strict rules... and then huge loopholes to make them actually liveable.
Here's one for the mistakes vid:
So, technically, the Old Testament is not the Torah. The Torah is just the first 5 books of it (and the Christian name for it is the "Pentateuch"); together with two other collections of books (the Prophets and the Hagiographa), the three form the Tanakh, which is the actual name for the Hebrew holy scripture.
The statement in this video might seem to imply that the Old Testament and Torah are the same thing. However all it actually says is that Exodus is the second book in each, and that the two things were named by different groups.
This is an important distinction for nerds of Jewish vs Christian polemics. What Christians call the "Old testament" is more like an adulterated, expanded copy of a translation of a translation of the Torah, edited in ways both subtle and gross in order to bolster Christian claims. (edited: typos)
@@BennyPowers also there can be an implication that because the testament is called old, there is a new one.
@@D.S.handle an implication which is repeatedly and pre-emptively denied in the Torah, but who's counting.
Yes, but... He only references Exodus and Deuteronomy which are both from the Torah
There's a saying that summarizes every Jewish holiday: "They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat!"
pretty much
I mean it's true. They are most likely the most persecuted people in the world
@@work90 nah, that would probably be the Carthaginians.
Funny enough, basically all of the "jewish" stereotypes predate the jews, and were first(?) applied against bronze-age Phoenicians (the ancestors of both Carthage and Israel)
@@userequaltoNull isn't a greta deal of population in Carthage also descended from the Isrealites? Also I it's more fitting of calling the Jews Isrealites since not all Israelites are Jews. Jews is what you call them for following their Jewish religion. Like Christians is the name for calling people who follow Christ. Atleast they TRY to🤣
This is the best comment I read this past 3 years.
Every holiday is celebrating yet another date were some powerful empire failed to opress us.
And the mourning days are when they succeeded
“Let’s get this Bread”
Hussein Jaber: “And I took that seriously”
Imagine saying to someone: yeah i own all the bread in isreal
in Palestine 🇵🇸
@@parisgrande1422 Palestine doesn't exist
@@parisgrande1422 I agree
@@Omer1996E.C * rubs hands excitedly and grabs popcorn *
@@user-op8fg3ny3j yeah, they're coming at anytime to defend their crimes as always, and I'm holding good points for them.
Out of all of the retellings of the story of Passover I’ve heard, this is definitely one of them. Love it!
Though I do sort of miss the Facebook haggadah that no one's done lately.
@@baylinkdashyt ooh, I’ve not heard of that, what is it?
Truly one of the Passover tellings of all time
This is one of the Passover retellings I’ve ever seen
yeah i have to agree! this story sure is one of the ones i’ve heard
Kudos on properly pronouncing the word Chametz for the entirety of the video, but in practice, that person only owns the bread that is held by the government or public institutions.
Private people just get rid of all the chametz in their homes, while businesses like bakeries or supermarkets have their own person which they sell the chametz to. There are a lot of examples of Jewish halakha tricks that allow modern Jews to follow biblical rules without actually doing anything (Eruv, Shabbat elevators, etc), but this isn't really one of them.
the Eruv was already explored in a previous HAI video,
and in this video he mentioned the use of "power of attorney"- almost all businesses pass this attorney power up the pyramid to the same People that "sell" the governmental owned chametz. only separationist communities go so far as to be self reliant in this process...
Technically anyone can, and many private poeple do, appoint the Cheif Rabbi to sell their Chametz. Also he sells all Chametz in the country under Jewish law. The POA is so the contract can be leaglly enforceable which is much better under jewish law.
We also have our contract it something that our rabbis organize in which we sell all remaining chametz in our homes
A few small corrections, it is forbidden to see chametz, so all the chametz that is not burned is put in closed boxes and hidden in a closet that must not be opened, we are very careful to clean all the chametz crumbs between the sofas and anywhere else it may be so that no crumbs emerge during the holiday
As an Orthodox Jew, I’ve never heard it wasn’t aloud to see it.
Not to see, to show...
I LOVE Jewish loopholes. I swear for every tenet and commandmend in their scripture, there is a selection of loopholes to get around it.
Somehow they think they can trick the all knowing God of the universe...
@@user-op8fg3ny3j If the all knowing God put loopholes in the law, it must have been on purpose, for us to find and use!
Don't forget about the exceptions to the loopholes, and then the loopholes through those exceptions!
@@wta1518
That must be a lovely circle 😇
@@user-op8fg3ny3j if god is all knowing the loopholes are deliberate
In defense of tricks: To my knowledge, most people who can realistically rid of their Chametz before Passover, do that; they do join the Chametz selling just in case something was forgotten, but that's it. As you said, those that aren't able to get rid of it and keep their business open regularly for the rest of the year use the trick, but it's mostly understood that's it's better not to.
Also, it's been brought up and forbidden to make it so the Chametz isn't _really_ the non-Jew's (in this case, Jaber) - he must be able to keep it his if he wants to, which he can, pay for it and take it.
Also also, remember that even people who sell their Chametz (mostly, again) don't use it and keep it somewhere hidden until Passover passes and is over (pun fully intended).
Lastly, this and others are tricks, however you look at it, and there are complex historical and philosopical reasons as to why Judaism accepts them. This was opposed by some very respected rabbis for it, but historically got accepted as fine if must be.
Why not simply have a pre-Passover, where the whole neighborhood and their families come together, everyone brings their Chametzes, you have one huge banquet, and everyone experiences crippling bellyache the next day?
Thx for those precisions !
@@lonestarr1490 People actually do this, and there’s also usually a bonfire to destroy anything not eaten.
So theoretically, Jaber could walk into anyone's home with permission, and then gorge himself on all their Chametz without asking, and he'd be totally legally in the clear?
@@psychopathetic5341 i don't think they'd need to allow him entry. He could rock up to a house and demand their bread though, I guess that's okay.
1:20 I literally yelled outloud “an American said his Chet’s right!” Btw good job on accuracy of facts.
Fun fact: Some trolls from a certain religion (you know which one) once offered the guy to give him the money if he follows through and actually buys all the bread in Israel. He refused, saying that he prefers to be a good neighbor (and maintain his position as Israel's bread buyer, which does entitle him to some money every year for his troubles).
Those damned followers of Loki, I bet! That sounds like a trick of his
what in the death to israel
It was the Buddhists. They're always looking to start trouble, and they're super greedy.
goofy ahh comment
@@ChrisWar666 aah yes our long time mortal enemies, those damn lokists, THEY NEVER GET MY BREAD!!!
A lot of modern Jewish traditions are centered around clever ways to avoid the real repercussions of some weird rules people wrote 3000 years ago and aren't relevant to modern-day life. There are books upon books of rabbis and others interpreting and fighting over the meanings of the smallest of words from old biblical texts. So if anyone ever wondered why we Jews make such great lawyers - now you know.
Tell me one religion that does not have this.. except Buddhism, perhaps. ..And Pastafarianism, of course.
I also believe that, correct me if i'm wrong, jews believed that god is perfect and so are is laws. if there's a loophole to be found he purposely put it in there.
@@kkmarokkaan It's more that God gave the laws to man and put him in charge of interpreting them. There's even a story where two rabbis are arguing over the interpretation of a law. God appears and declares that one rabbi is correct. The other rabbi tells God to stay out of it since the laws are for man to interpret.
Reading the comments rabbis make on the thoughts of previous rabbis on laws in the Torah that are stupid is hilarious. They can’t just say the law is wrong, they have to come up with an interpretation that makes textual sense, but not real world sense so it cannot be properly applied and thus, was most certainly always meant to have been allegorical and not literal
@@AdityaMehendale Islam, some people just literally ignore the rules (which is stupid) but the vast majority don’t just do weird tricks to avoid things like that, I mean honestly I can’t think of any way to make a loophole for most of our stuff anyway. The ONE thing is with gelatin, some people say that you don’t have to bother checking whether it’s pork or beef gelatin because “you don’t know” which is sooo stupid but yeah that’s like the only thing, people don’t do it with actual pork or alcohol or things like that just with gelatin for some reason.
I’m learning so much from this channel. Today I learned that “Chametz” is a really fun word to say. Thanks HAI!
Bonus points for him reading it with the proper Ch sound instead of reading it as "Hametz."
@@Techydad In the eruv video he pronounces the ch in melacha like church :/
The word 'bread' is replaced with it for like 4+ weeks it's incredible
*I'm Jewish and I'll clarify:*
Chametz includes anything with wheat and other related grains in it. That's why in Pesach (Passover) we have entirely different kosher laws, kahrut goes into "emergency mode" with a new label introduced known as "kosher for Passover."
Some Jewish groups (yes, Jews just like Arabs have different related genetic groups) may differ in exceptions, for example, Sphardi Jews have tradition to eat rice and hummus on Pesach, and although Ashkenazi Jews don't lawfully have a problem with it, they do hold that these grains are commonly held and produced in close proximity to wheat and wheat varieties and therefore don't hold the tradition of eating those and many take this tradition very seriously.
Can i do the same with my drugs stash when the cops searching?
Callout to the previous HAI video about Islamic Banks who can't collect interest but still kind of do. I love these Legalistic workarounds for strict but unworkable religious restrictions. I can only imagine the Almighty just arguing with a lawyer about it.
There's also the HAI video about the wire that fences off NYC. Also a Jewish thing.
Rules really don't matter if they get in the way of making money
There is a similar loopwhole in Jewish law, it's called a hatier iska. It follows vary similair principles
there's an ancient saying that God takes pleasure/is amused by these workarounds and it makes God proud (anthropomorphising obv) that we find them
@@menachemspielman145 I agree. G-d probably looks down and laughs every year at his people doing goofy-ass shit like this. He knows we're being sneaky about the rules, but he's too amused to care
Wow, this was a surprisingly super accurate comment on what happens every year with chametz, right down to and including the correct pronunciation of the ch in chametz. Good job!
I mean, he did mispronounce the "ch" in his video about the Manhatten Eruv. So I guess he just learned from his mistakes.
@@mrmimeisfunny That's correct, it's nice when people who don't normally pronounce that sound go out of their way to try to do it. He did a fantastic job at it, too, it didn't seem forced.
And with the correct Hebrew pronunciation and not the American "Ashkenazis" 🙃
@@shcool3 lol, sure, the sfardi pronunciation is more Israeli then the Ashkenazi one.
@@yeri786 Hey man, if you happen to know, could you answer a question of mine? He didn't explain how this works at businesses and restaurants. Seems like a Jewish restaurant wouldn't be able to sell bread during passover if they don't own it?
I'm Israeli and I had no idea that happens. You learn something new every day
You don't have a huge nation not to know this lol
That's kind of unbelievable, being in such a monocultural, small area. I know there are many language divisions and complex ritualistic sects of Judaism, especially the orthodox or around Jerusalem, but .. wow! Do you live in a non-jewish area there?
@@rrai1999 nope, a normal town. But most people in Israel are secular Jews, we don't really care for that. And even the ones that do keep kosher and stuff probably didn't know about it before watching this video.
The most we know about the bread in Passover is that the hametz aisles in the supermarket are covered in white cloth.
Great video! Even with this "lifehack", you're still expected to get rid of all Hametz in your home on Passover, if you're into that sort of thing. Even many non-religious or traditional Jews in Israel do this. This includes a thorough cleaning of the house so you don't have little crumbs here and there. However, if you really can't or don't want to get rid of big items (e.g. you are poor but have stockpiles of beer), you can put all of the Hametz in one place in your home and "sell" it. Normally that would be a separate room that's completely sealed off during the holiday, or at least a closet dedicated specifically for this purpose that you're not supposed to open, and the "buyer" will know where it is. However, the vast majority of individuals I've ever talked to who observe Passover will just prepare in advance to throw everything out. What is described in the video on a national level is more for Kosher businesses like restaurants and bakeries, where Hametz is part of their everyday operations, and who are expected to serve Hametz more or less until Passover actually starts, and/or where moving it out is practically impossible.
1:20 you said "eight days or seven", but your graphic Illustrated nine days or eight. Add that to the list for this year.
[ I'm wrong; you win; shut up. Sunset ]
I think he purposely does mistakes to see which ones we will catch
My immediate reaction
Could be because Jewish holidays (and all days) start at sundown. Therefore when you look at a calendar, the first night is included. I don't think this is an error.
This is not a mistake, but actually impressively accurate. The Jewish day starts at sunset, not midnight, so one Jewish day covers parts of two days on the standard calendar.
@@thestocksource8393 we are *jackals*.
What happens to people if they eat the bread they no longer own? Has that ever been prosecuted as theft?
Thievery is how they made that artificial temporary terror state 🐀
The sale was upheld in Israeli civil court one time when the non Jewish purchaser decided they'd rather have the scotch. Interestingly, although Jewish religious law is not predicated on secular civil law, the fact that the sale was indeed widely held to be effective and not a mere legal fiction, strengthened the case for the effectiveness of the sale in permitting the chametz to be used after the festival
The punishment for eating the bread on Passover is much greater than the one for stealing.
@@YHDiamond 10/10 priorities
Absolutely nothing happens to them. It obviously would be impossible to enforce even if Israel wanted to. The sale is a symbolic way of letting religious Jews keep bread in their house, nothing more
Solid content. Well presented. High tier production value
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Technically in Israel, the holiday lasts for seven days, and outside there is a very old tradition to celebrate for an extra day.
Yeah. It comes down to calendar confusion back in the day and is now continued due to tradition pretty much
Do you know, in Israel, every friday afternoon the elevators are set to automatic mode, and they run all the night and all saturday stopping at every floor....
Hey........... ecology !! : \
Not all elevators but some. In hotels for example at least one of the elevator dose
Why tho
@@dinonuggiesguy4847 People hew observe the Sabbath do not alter electronic circuits during the Sabbath. They can ride an elevator, but they can not choose a floor. The elevators are set to Sabbath mode, where they stop at every floor in turn. The doors sensors are usually disabled to prevent triggering them by mistake. Emergency systems are left operational of course, as health and life trump keeping the Sabbath.
@@MatanArie Couldn't the Sabbath light switch be integrated on elevators as well?
@@jeroen79 no as you cannot flip switches at shabbat as it technically lighting a spark of electricity and lighting fire is forbidden in shabbat , the shabbat "switch " is actually a timed circuit connected to a clock that turns on automatically in shabbat so basically the elevators are already using that
All the bread? He must be rich cause that's a lot of dough.
Dad?
Just started a chain.
Dad?
Dad?
Daddy?
Dad?
love how u pronounce the “chhhhhh” in chametz!! it’s perfect!!
If I were a god and one of my rules was: “you can’t have bread for 8 days” and you pulled this trick on me, I wouldn’t let you into heaven.
Jewish tradition states that a all knowing God knows the loopholes, and spoke his perfect law anyways.
That's a childish way of thought
@@samp2651 Kids think that their parents know everything, until they hit the point where they think their parents know nothing. So technically correct.
Want to give a shoutout to the thumbnail maker opting to make the map as vague as possible by covering it up with bread, to avoid controversy.
LOL that's just genius
It gets even crazier than this. once every 7 years this guy owns all the agriculture lands in Israel for one year
this is not how Shmita works. this doesn't happen
@@galashery7264 I don't remember who they sell it to but it is true. It's called hayter mechira (היתר מכירה). It's been done in Israel for over 100 years so that food may be grown locally on land owned by a Jew
@@galashery7264 not all, but some farmer do heter mechira
@@y.vinitsky6452 yes but it’s very different from the Passover sell. And like passover not everybody does that. It’s just an old tradition that used to make sense in a different time and is less appropriate for a world with so many people in it and at a time when we relay on fertilizer.
@@y.vinitsky6452
Israel has only existed (legally) for 74 years.
Bonus points for your Hebrew pronunciations. Pretty good!
The 8 vs 7 days goes based on if you’re celebrating the holiday in Israel vs out of Israel.
And great pronunciation on chametz
as an Israeli Jew I knew pretty much all of that, but it was still funny to see you present it.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 💕 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
@@cartier2312 yeah Palestine should be free from hamas.
Here we go again
Ikr, this otherwise normal procedure that you don't think much of suddenly becomes kinda funny 😂
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Sam, big mistake on this video. He owns all the bread owned by the STATE of Israel. Individuals are still responsible for selling their own breads/dishes every year.
That explains why my grandmother made us scrub the house....or does it?
@@aadlersberg It doesn't. Your grandparents still arranged for the chametz to be sold probably by their rabbi and were required to do the best job possible of removing every possible trace of it from the house, except for the place they aggregated all the dishes/products to be sold.
why would the state own $300m worth of bread?
@@ghosthunter0950 Because it's a socialist state
I believe you're wrong.
The thing HAI is referencing is done to forgive everyone the sin of missing something. Everyone does their best, and for what they cannot do, this process absolves them.
The State of Israel does not own $300,000,000 of bread.
You know, if this is what they are doing, they might as well state that the pantry is a trashbin and declare that they have discarded the bread, and a week later, retrieve the "trash" and use the "trash" like what you would do to a bread (and don't forget to convert your "trashbin" back to a pantry)
I'm just impressed that they have leavened bread that stays good for over a week after they have obtained it
As a rabbi and avid HAI fan, I approve this message!
Brilliantly done.
Happy to answer any questions anyone may have on the topic.
Because there's nothing better than wierd edge cases in wierd loopholes - what would happen if one of these mass bread owners were to die (or otherwise be incapable of re-selling the bread) during the time they owned it? (I get that the answer in practice is "probably nothing", but given that's pretty much the same answer as what would happen if someone didn't temporarily sell their bread, it seems like a fair question in context!)
Has it always been this way? Was this a thing when the first temple was built?
@MeChupaUnHuevon you're correct that we don't eat it for 8 days, but most of the stuff that is sold is stuff with grain which can be sealed like crackers and cookies, not fresh bread on the counter. Plus, ziplock bags and freezers are things.
Is tofu kosher in Ashkanazi Jewish standard?
@@kimandre336 yes
This is a massive oversimplification of the laws of selling Hametz. There are a bunch of further restrictions; while the Hametz can be in your house, it has to be kept locked and separate from all the stuff that is actually used. So, pantries get filled with Hametz and sealed. In addition, this loophole doesn't actually apply to full-fledged Hametz like bread, only to products that are Hametz only because care wasn't taken to keep them separate from bread during the manufacturing process.
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so its actually even more stupid
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As an Israeli, the Hametz actually doesn’t stay in the fridge and pantries - we still need to hide it in a place that nobody will have any contact with it during Passover.
This is by far the most interesting thing I've learned today. And I've learned half of the things I've learned today.
Have to love how these "written in stone" kinda laws have small loopholes and the allmighty one never catches them,in any religion.
He will catch. He already did. Jesus ridicled them for such thing like 2000 ago and they still trying to trick the God.
this is actually a fundamental philosophy in Judaism. the ways and rights have been provided to human beings, for human beings to live them.
they are not provided to "angles" who according to some jewish traditions are effectively robots with no free will who cannot do any wrongs.
further more, the interpretation of the laws and rightist also provided to human beings to judge.
this is explored in the story of 'the oven of Akhnai' that appears in "Bava Metzia 59a-b" in the Talmud.
one of the main punchlines of this story is- "[the covenant is] not in the heavens", effectively a summary of this philosophical concept
There are no loopholes. It is a command to remove the bread from your homes.
@@Hg-rq5ok Then I eat elsewhere
@@Lurker01 he is also probably ridiculing you for thinking he is the son of god, which he never claimed to be.
Me: * Sees Israel in the title *
*GRABS POPCORN & DIVES INTO THE COMMENTS*
Butthurt kids have come out of the woodwork
Really accurate video! Great job
As a Jewish living in Israel, I haven't had any idea of this.
Usually in my family we just don't buy bread when it's going to be passover
Jewish law requires nullification of all chametz
That's like the pope declaring beaver to be fish so it could eaten on fridays.
Or Swabians killing pigs in rivers to justify they're aquatic animals.
its more like an abstaining from luxary kind of thing here
The Bible does say that bats are birds and whales are fish, so that does sound plausible.
@@plebisMaximus or the good ol' Herrgottsbscheißerle.
If you're on lent and you wrap the meat up in dough... it doesn't count ;)
Easy there friend > slippery slope...
7 days vs 8 days isn't based on Jewish sect. Jews in Israel tend to follow 7 days and Jews outside of Israel follow 8, but that's agreed upon among everyone. For example, a Jew in New York who keeps 8 days would agree that an Israeli only has to keep seven
Reform Judaism in America only observes 7 days.
It also means less worrying about timezones, I suppose.
@@vylbird8014 only 2 time zones relevant "Israel" and "not".
as mentioned by Michael, there are those that just ignore this
Michael David No. Reform Judaism in America observes between 0 and 2 days normally.
Conservative and Orthodox in America observe 8.
Conservative and Orthodox in Israel observe 7
If I was that guy I would totally just show up at random people's houses and say "Give me a slice of my bread."
I would love him to. We actually give him the address so he can show up.
I wonder what happens when he can't come up with the $300 mil and has already eaten more than the 0.0047% of the bread his deposit covers.
Another commenter said that technically the sale includes the actual storage space. What happens if he shows up and wants to spend the afternoon hanging out in his rental pantry?
@@johnladuke6475 My man, that 0.0047% of bread is a absolute fuckton
@@AranhaaTheSixtyninth Maybe he REALLY likes sandwiches.
The thing that confuses me about this is by 8 days I wouldn't even want my bread back
"Chametz" is anything illegal to eat during Passover. Which means probably 60% of the food eaten in a regular basis. It's WAY more expansive than just bread and baked goods.
You can basically only eat the following:
Meat without breading
Vegetables
Fruits
Nuts
Potato products
Chocolate
Things made from matzah flour
That's pretty much it.
So a lot of the chametz you must "sell" can last for months depending on what it is.
@@User31129 at least from my understanding it's only yeast leavened breads chemical leaving like baking soda is fine which alot of crackers use also you could eat breaded meat just as long as non leavened bread crumbs were used
@@emeraldbonsai it depends on the sect. a lot of the more strict ones consider any mixture of water and flour to be chametz if it sits around unbaked for too long (literally under a minute), or legumes (bean stuff) in water, so the amount of chametz skyrockets quickly.
and some really strict ones even consider Jerusalem matzah to be chametz, IDK why exactly, but at that point you know they pretty much have to replace almost all food in their home.
IDK who decides what is being sold to the dude tho.
Its not just bread, its technically anything with regular flour in it, including pastries, cookies, candy bars, etc.
Following ancient laws is always inconvenient in modern times. I try not to, but respect to all the people who have the patience for it.
God must be a lawyer the way his people love interpreting his laws on technicalities
Seems like religion in general
another thing you can do is say a prayer making all the bread in your house that you may or may not know about ownerless
Power of attorney over all bread is not something I would ever think had a legal need but apparently it does.
Israeli Jewish here.
Heard about selling bread to non Jewish before "pesach".
Never heard about the nation wide selling thing.
As a Jew, I really like this video. Non-Jews tend to get a lot of stuff wrong but this video is surprisingly accurate. Good job!
You Jews non stop try cheat your God, you're only fooling yourselves!
I love this, excellent video, very amusing, 5 stars, thank you Hotel Breadman
bro legit said "well actually 🤓" to God himself
The guy who bought up all the onions in the United States: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!
Without even watching this, I can say - it's not all of Israel's bread. Israel has significant populations of Muslims, Christians, Druze, and other faiths/lack thereof, and none of them are required to sell their bread just because they live in Israel. Also, it's only a little over 7 days, maybe 7 and a half. I get that the titles have to be clickbaity- every channel does it because everyone else is doing it, because it works. Also, some people, like my cousins, don't sell their bread - they eat or otherwise consume any edible Chametz and don't rely on the opportunity to sell it. I don't know if they still sell (all the edible crumbs that may be on) their year-round dishes, which is another main reason for this law. Passover is a LOT of work.
I should probably watch the video, though.
He doesn't even buy all the chametz owned by Jews in Israel. He buys all the chametz owned by the Israeli government. Israeli citizens' food is their own private property, not the governments' in some sort of religious communism. This video explicitly says otherwise, that the Israeli finance minister somehow has claim to all the bread in the country's borders and legally confiscates it for the Rabbinate to perform this function.
The whole thing is clickbait nonsense, among other mistakes it makes. I'm surprised no one has called it out.
great video, you forgot one small thing that hamez isn't only bread. it's every food that contains flour (some also include grains) and had been mixed with water and left to sit. which is basically every food that contains flour and wasn't specifically made for passover. which is a lot more than only bread
How is that *not* matzah? What specifically makes that okay? It contains wheat flour and is rolled out into a sheet? The only difference I can tell is that it's cooked before it can prove/ferment.
@@memesthatmakeyouwannadie3133 if it ferments it turn into hametz iirc
@@memesthatmakeyouwannadie3133 no body said it makes fully sense, this are the rules. if it was left to sit for more than a few seconds it's hamez. even if the dough didnt rise.
Great video!
*Additional clarity from a Jew about Jews and Jewish law*
Judaism ISN'T only a religion, we're an ethnoreligion, meaning we function very differently than most religions and peoples.
The Jewish people are a nation, and like all nations we have laws. In the series of Oral Torah (bound into books thousands of years ago), otherwise known as Mishnayot and Gemara (the Talmud) ancient sages and scholars held extremely sophisticated and complicated debates on Jewish law and theory-in Judeo-Aramaic and Hebrew. These books are the essence of understanding Jewish law and from here these Sages and scholars found legal loopholes in Jewish law to permit what is mentioned in this video.
The Old Testament is completely different from the Torah. It was rearranged to more easily lead to Jesus.
Good job on this video 👌👍
“And he did some BANGERS” 😂😂😂
Lived in Israel my whole ass life and didn’t know any of this. the internet is an incredible place
0:18 The Torah isn't the same as the Old Testament.
The Torah, or Penteteuch, is the first five books of the Tanakh, which consists of the Torah (5 books of moses), Nevi'im (prophets), and Ketuvim (writings) (it's actually an acronym in Hebrew) and roughly corresponds to the Christian Old Testament. However, different Christian sects have different books in their versions of the Old Testament and almost all of them include a few books that the Tanakh leaves out. It's complected, and you'd be forgiven for saying that the Tanakh is the same as the Old Testament, but the Torah is very much not the same thing.
0:22 It's also a little anachronistic to refer to the Israelites at the time of the Exodus as "Jews", since the word "Jews" is derived from the tribe of Judah, which was only one of the 12 tribes at the time of the exodus but became synonymous with "Israelites" because they were by far the largest tribe to survive the destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the Assyrians.
@@joshuaevans6295 if we are on the trivia spiel;
who was the first "jew" named that didn't descend from the tribe of Judah?
@@arieldahl Yehudah, he didn't decend from himself
@@eyallevin6302 he’s never referred to in the text as ’yehudi’ I would have to check, but any identity he has beyond his name being Judah/Yehuda is either as an Israelite (or son of Israel) or as a Hebrew.
@@arieldahl I think your right, never mind. What is the right answer?
Interesting video! Keep it up
Different styles of trade...form different trade lines... Thanks for your efforts...
He doesn’t buy all the chametz in the country. He buys all the chametz owned by the government. Private citizens and businesses sell their own chametz on an individual level
i love how you manage to joke about any religious principle without getting terribly cancelled
With Israel and Jews it's less of a problem, since Jewish would get cancelled a long time ago by Twitter if it was possible.
he's late to the party.
jews have joked about this for hundreds of years
I’m Jewish and this was pretty accurate ngl. It’s always fun to see non-Jews’ reaction to a lot of our laws.
It's not really that important about a few slices of bread which anyone can comfortably burn or throw away and will go mouldy anyway within 8 days. However, "chametz" also includes things like pasta, crackers, biscuits and a bunch of other products, which could be a substantial expense. One very notable item is whisky, which is also classified as "chametz" - I know some people for example with a really expensive collection who would suffer a huge loss if required to completely destroy / dispose of it, so this "sale" structure enables them to re-acquire the collection without suffering serious hardship. Just fyi :-)
bruh, imagine inventing loopholes to something someone over 2,000 years ago decided was a thing.
3500 years. 2000 years ago was the Roman occupation, destruction of the Temple, Jesus, 1st Jewish Revolt, etc. Judaism emerged during the bronze age.
He is the OG bread winner of his family lol.
Great video.
As an Israeli and Jewish I just learned something new about the country I’ve been born in and still living here until this day
כנל
Imagine some random person goes into your home and eat your bread, and tells you, it's legally his.
This is actually both really funny and really wholesome.
This doesn't make sense to me: bread doesn't actually last 8 days, so you'll just have to throw it away anyway (even if you choose not to burn it). Surely the best options are to either have a bread-based feast the day before or to actually physically give the bread away, e.g. to a homeless shelter.
Maybe not fresh bread left out on the counter. But refrigerated processed bread will absolutely last 8 days. Hasn't a Big Mac been demonstrated to last for decades?
Anything with any grain in it besides for matza (unleavened bread) made in a strict manner is considered chametz.
So, pasta, beer, grain alcohol, crackers, cookies, are all chametz. As well as the more obvious things like sourdough starters and frozen dough/pastries
Maybe a loaf of bread you made today wont last. But like a box of cereal, a bag of rice, a box of pasta...chametz doesnt just mean bread its anything made of 5 specific grains, and anything that was made with utensils that have touched those 5 grains (super in depth sutff here). So sure your literal bread isnt going to last (things like that will either be eaten before passover, thrown out, or generally not really be bought by a religious household within a week of passover, but like, everything in your fridge that would still be good for a month, but you cant eat for passover, is gonna be sold....
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Refrigerating bread actually makes it go mouldy faster due to the moisture. You could freeze it for toast though I suppose.
@@reuvenkaplan7085 Thanks, this definition makes more sense than the one given in the video.
Very impressive pronunciation of chametz!
Smooth transition to the ad
It reminds me of a thing called Shabbat's Gentile (non-Jew). Basically, Jews are prohibited from doing any work (interpreted as broadly as possible, including even flipping the light switch) from Friday night to Saturday night, so they can give a hint for a Gentile to perform the work for them. Many rabbis accept this trick, provided that if the Gentile is paid, he will get paid after the Shabbat, and will be paid regardless of whether or not he has actually done the job.
Sort-of
So that's how you scam a Jew then? 😅
Yall need to hear about sabbath elevators:
On sabbath (saturday) we are not allowed to work, and with ever improving technology the definition of work has expanded. Operating machinery is considered work, and so pushing any buttons or switches is not allowed on sabbath.
You might think this makes using elevators impossible, but no, if it goes up to every floor and down again in a loop you never actually operate it you just enter and exit, so that's what we do, that's what installed in most israeli buildings and buildings of Jewish communities around the world.
From the same logic we get timer operated water boilers & hot cooking plates you set before sabbath.
it's called automation...
... what about levers and such? I mean keys, door handles/nobs, even just doors themselves. They're all various types of complex (and simple) machines.
Does lifting the lid off a pan count? Or turning a tap to fill it with water?
@@Logarithm906 the issue is with actively operating an electrical machine/appliance.
technicalities lead other things to being extended to all active use of electronic machines or appliances.
so the common method is to simply have it automated Before Saturday or permanently on before Saturday.
I wonder if this was easier to follow when baking your own bread was more of a daily occurrence, like the story implies it was. Just bake lightly or over eat the day before.
I'm just happy you pronounced chametz properly
What if he somehow comes up with $300 million and decides to just keep all the bread in the country
I really like the way you present Israel without any prejudice or political opinions, right to the point, even going as far as not showing precise borders to avoid conflicts
yeah yet people still have to bring in politics, on a video about bread, god damn bread
@@RoseStuck click "new" and you get world war III
This explains so many things.
1:21--to be accurate to what the calendar says, you should say "nights" instead of "days" because the Hebrew calendar is lunar (mostly. It's complicated.) and that looks like nine days or eight instead of eight days or seven. Anyway, great video, as for all of them, and I hope the next one's just as good!
Especially since observant Jews stop eating chametz at around Noon on the day of the first night of Passover, it's more like the better part of 9 days. You're correct.
so if you eat your bread during that time you are actually committing theft and destruction of someone else's propety?