Pet Food on Pesach
All forms of benefit from chametz are prohibited on Pesach. This means that you cannot feed your pets or farm animals chametz But most commercial pet food is inedible for humans. Is such pet food also prohibited on Pesach? Join Rabbi Dovid Fink as he surveys the opinions of the leading posekim.
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Pet Food on Pesach: Pet Food on Pesach
In this shi‘ur, we will survey the opinions of the leading posekim who require that pet food be entirely free of hamets and those posekim who permit feeding animals food containing hamets as long as that food is unfit for human consumption.
A source sheet is available through the links in both WORD format and pdf. In class we will translate and explain these sources.
In addition to being one of Rabbi Brovender's first students, Rabbi Dovid Fink is an outstanding expertﾠand teacher of Halacha. Rabbi Fink received his Rabbinic ordination from ITRI and the Mir and was awarded his Ph.D in Semitic Languages and Linguistics from Yale University. Rav Fink has taught thousands of students from all over the world for over 35 years.