A few days ago a question has arisen over the Jewish identity of one of the woman working in the ‘Lubavitch Matzah’ bakery in Crown Heights. According to the ‘Shulchan Aruch’ in order for Matzos to be good for use as ‘Matzos Mitzvah’ only a Jew may be involved in the entire process of making the Matzah, for a Goy cannot say ‘Leshem Matzot Mitzvah’.
The bakery employs Russian and Polish ladies that roll the dough, one of which has the question arisen over. The woman had been temporarily removed and all matzos that were baked up until a few days ago will be held until her proper identity can be determined.
More in the Extended Article!
Suspected: Gentile Woman Working in the Crown Heights Matzah Bakery
A few days ago a question has arisen over the Jewish identity of one of the woman working in the ‘Lubavitch Matzah’ bakery in Crown Heights. According to the ‘Shulchan Aruch’ in order for Matzos to be good for use as ‘Matzos Mitzvah’ only a Jew may be involved in the entire process of making the Matzah, for a Goy cannot say ‘Leshem Matzot Mitzvah’.
The bakery employs Russian and Polish ladies that roll the dough, one of which has the question arisen over. The woman had been temporarily removed and all matzos that were baked up until a few days ago will be held until her proper identity can be determined.
More in the Extended Article!
R. Yitzchok Tenenbaum one of the owners of the bakery and R. Avrohom Osdoba of the Badat”z of Crown Heights are currently researching her Jewish roots, and we were notified that a proper statement will be released when they conclude their investigation.
Should this woman turn out to be not Jewish the potential damage done will be insurmountable, people who buy Matzos pay a great premium to have the Matzos they buy be Matzos Mitzvah.
Stay tuned, we will continue covering this developing story.
Chaim
They say that upon invesigation – she indeed is Jewish!
HASHGACHA
indead of the Masgiach worriyng about the pepole shouting Yechi, they shouldve been more carefull with who they hire.
you should see the Masgiach they have there. we need a guy like Charitonov who used to do mivtzoim with the workeres.
ayl
if the badatz gives a chesher they are responsible for the whole process.
if they cannot live up to the expected standards they must stop issuing chechshairim.
right?
handsome is as handsome does.
..
to the best of my knoledge…halachikly the mere fact that the rolling was done by a none jew does not make it no good for matzos mitzvah….
but when you rip off the community portraying your matzov as the BEST….
thats what we get for $20 lb
TRM
As far as I understand, there is only a problem is the people who mix the flour and actualy do the baking are not jewish.
The saying of lisaim matzos mitzvah by the rollers, is just for fun.
mottel
and they checked the yichus of all the others?!?!?!? And what about that they don’t keep taharas hamishpocho etc.???? And that they eat their chometzdike lunch downstairs… I personally saw chometz gomur being brought in to the downstairs room in paper bags ‘for lunch’ and the mashgiach never said a word
Boruch ben Tzvi HaKohaine Hoffinger
B”H
I hope it turns out well for everyone!
Goyishe Matzos
I want my money back!!!
Hire only Shomer Shabbos
If they were to hire only Shomer Shabbos they would not run in to such problems
Bochur
ATT. TRM
they to need to say because a non jew if you tell him to say “leshem matzos mitzva” he can say but he does not mean what he says and it must be “leshma”
Yossi
my only concern and question is how many people out there actually believe that the final letter that comes out telling us whether the matzoh is good or not will be based on Torah and not money?.
Come on, enough already I believe and this is my prediction they will say one of 2 things (1) she is really Jewish it was only her father or some other relative that raised eybrows or (2) it is not a kashrus problem.
Too much money is to be lost by everyone involved who is doing the investigating! The bakery… for obvious reasons, and the Hechsher which has a monopoly on this community, stands on the threshold of people finally giving up hope.
You can mess with my milk, you can mess with my meat, but dont mess with my pesach or the money I spent! ( I think that is how many people feel)
The truth we will probably never know, because everyone is nogeiah bi’davar! and if she was a goy then the hechsher should have known a long time ago….
It will be interesting to see who gets involved, who does not, and how the usual spin doctors have their fun with this one….
Also it will be interesting to see how much group matzohs start selling for (i.e. price gouging).
What does someone do when they are machmir to only eat Crown Heights Matzoh on pesach and this turns out to be an actual Koolah? Ask your local Rabbi and Daven for those in charge of this whole mess (i.e. the Bakery owners, & the CHK)
CN
I buy the K’far Chabad matzos anyway, in order to help the economy of Eretz Yisroel.
goldi
B’H i bought my matzahs from ukrane!!!
Rage against the machine
This year, eat machine matzos
Uh Oh,
Did she work here other years?
True or false
I heard that there were TWO gentile ladies!
Is that true??
Pharaoh
I heard that she is a democrat!!!
YS
Anyone interested in FACTS and not FICTION, should look up in the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch Siman TOF NUN GIMMEL Through TUF SAMACH, and there you will see plainly what is written about this exact situation.
According to my humble understanding, the Alter Rebbe says that matzo baked under these circumstances, would NOT be considered Matzas Mitzvah only in an extreme hardship (B’Shas Ha’Dichak) etc.
One can certainly explore this in greater detail, however, my suggestion is to check with a NON-BIAS ROV, who will issue a p’saak according to what the Alter Rebbe/Torah/Shulchan Aruch says, and NOT according to what “everyone” can “tolerate”.
curious
How would you buy matzo from the Ukraine anyway?
The DUMP they call a Matzah bakery
Funny how it went from 2 to 1 I bet in a few days they will say that they found out that she is also Jewish…..sure aren’t we all Jewish when it comes to money they will make Al Sharpton Jewish if it will make a buck.
they should give us our money back we pay big money for our Matzos to be extra mihudar $22 a pound I feel they should give me back every extra penny I paid for the hidur and only charge me what Manisheves charges. actually less then Manisheves that is made by machine not goying so it should be less. I saw in the supermarket in Vons in Cali $1 a pound I am willing to pay that for these Matzos….and who knows how many year they have been selling matzos made by goying. I feel every year they rape us with the high prices… I know they will say in Boro Park it is also the same price the differance is that in Boro Park they use Ungerlite to make the Matzos and the owner are satisfied with the mint they make every year but here they don’t care about our Matzos its all about how much money they can make so the cheaper the labor not mater if they are goyim the better.
Let Tennimbaum higher FRUM yidden to make our matzos I know he won’t make as much….nowhere does it say that he can’t work the rest of the year.
You charge high prices get frum workers and FIX UP UR DUMP. then maybe you can expect us to come back next year.
Last year you sold matzos that were as thick as wood and this year this.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Have Rachmonus
Enough already. Did not enough Lubavitchers suffer with tragedies in this community of Crown Heights in the last few weeks?
Maybe everyone should think twice before being so negative. We ALL make mistakes in our lives. YOU who are reading this too, DO as well. So get off your high of highs, have compassion, not necessarily for the owners of the Matza bakery, they will take whatever measures they need to to correct the problem and learn for the future, but stop the Loshon Horah and bad mouthing, and put some Achdus…
FED UP C.H. RESIDENT
last year we got a bargain – we got pannels for our sukkahs for so cheap it was just a shame that they were out of season so we couldnt stock up i think the c.h. dentists were in on it and now this year we get gentile-hand made matza…. did they say “lesheim matzos shikse”
Itzhak Schier
The quality of the matzos there was so bad last year that I decided to buy matzos from Dnepr this year.
I hope all works out and that there is no major hefsed, but we need to do something about the matzo situation here for those whose minhag it is to bake for themselves. Even without this latest crisis, the matzos are plywood, which I think I can get much cheaper at Home Depot assuming that my presence when they cut the wood into the size I need makes it kosher :) :) :).
anon
so, what happens with the matzos already bought? do we bring them in for a replacement???
What is lashon hara again?
There is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for the amount of lashon hara on this website and in particular about this matter!!!!!! Isn’t Lashon Hara harmful to 3 people? The amount of people reading it is obviously a lot more than 3. I am embarrassed that I even sank so low as to read what I did read of it myself! No more for me at least.
moshe
This problem with the worker being jewish is a minor one really. You could be matir it because her job is not part of the actual baking itself and therefore does not need to be lishmo. But by focusing on this we are ignoring more serious problems. Why are the barrels of water so dirty? Even if dirt is not chometz but by leaving it dirty it shows you can leave chometz and not care either. Right on top of mayim shelonu sits chometzdike garbage. Who checks these women for chometz on their fingers. It does not help to wear gloves when cell phones and money is used with same hands. Why is cake and sandwiches allowed to enter the premises. How damp is the place where the flour is kept. What if some water got through those bags. For all the machmirim who wont even drink bottled water on Pesach (botttled water does not even come in to contact with the human hand)these questions are shailos of potential chometz min hatora!
me
As far as I know, you could still use the matzos, just not for the seder, so no need to worry too much over the matter.
sick of ch ppl!!
u guys postin comments dont even know what ur talking about have u EVER gone to other matzah bakeries…very few have shomer shabbos ppl working…and i personaly know the owners of the bakery and trust me there hoenst ppl…if all they cared about was the money they would have setteled the issue already they are doing plenty of research before they come up with anythign…so for all u ppl out there saying sick things about others…think for a second its cuz of ppl like u that theres soo much hate it this world and ur sins that innocent ppl are dying from!! its an issue that will be resolved just zip it and keep ur sick comments to urself!!!
food4thought
I dont know why you are still discussing this when they already found shes jewish
ploni ben ploni
what noone has mentioned is that even though the Alter Rebbe says that matza kneaded/rolled out/baked by a goy is only kosher Beshaas Hadchak, there is room to say that in this situation there is even more room for leniency b/c there is a Sfek Sfeika on every matza #1)was THIS matza rolled by the goy or by a yid, #2)even if it was rolled by a goy maybe the Halacha is like Rav Hai Goan (which is the one the Alter Rebbe relise on Beshaas Hadchak) who says that it doen’t have to be done Lishma! (and its a sfek sfeika hamishapech, namely 1)maybe a goy is muttar to roll out matza 2)even if not, maybe THIS matza was made by a Yid!)
Chag KOSHAR Vesamaiach
a crown hieghtser on the west coast
First off,
I know that when I worked in Williamsburg, they paid high school aged girls, who were still innocent, and young, with plenty of yiras shomayim, to do the job that these russian/polish ppl do. Kept down the costs, and there was no worries about other issues. At the end of the day, there will be a heter found for this, in fact,, does anyone know how to do a retroactive conversion out there???? Any reformed rabbis/rabbits available? (If u r feeling desperate,, u can dial 1-900 heter4u, $7.70 a minute.)
Secondly, to the guy (Moshe) who seems to have an issue of the hypocrisy of not drinking bottled water, can I inform you that most bottled water today has between two and three added ingredients to replace the minerals that the filters remove? Ppl may think its just water,, but personally, I like to keep pesach with the Hidurim, from the alteh heim, for the reason that we dont know what technology does to the foods that are packaged. This is coming from someone whose husband is very very knowledgeable when it comes to Kashrus, and factories, and practices today.
A. Shliach
ayl wrote:
if the badatz gives a chesher they are responsible for the whole process.
if they cannot live up to the expected standards they must stop issuing chechshairim.
right?
handsome is as handsome does.
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It’s amazing that a person who can’t even pronounce the word hechsher properly, is an expert on when hechshers should be issued!
It’s amazing how people who comment online are experts on everything, and know better than everyone!
CHer
This reminds me why I don’t touch anything with a CHK shtempel…
fair and Blanced
This is the Line we do not cross. Like Masada, Pesach kashrus is the last stronghold of the CHK, especially after last year’s scandal with the tuna fish in oil(Kitnyos. I personally do not it eat tuna on Pesach. I do eat Matzah. This is it; enough is enough. The one and only solution is the immediate firing of the whole kashrus wing of the Beis Din (CHK). Yes, I know everyone has a family and so on, but I will not sacrifice my level of Kasrut for these people. The anash of Lubavitch worlwide are more important than a handful of people. We must draw the line here and no farther!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mendy
btw, this is not loshon horo, as it was already publicized.
mayb u guys should read this!!
Day in and day out,
We are being reminded
So why is it that so many of us
Are just standing still, so blinded?
Kol Dodi Dofek
Hashem is POUNDING at our door
Don?t we see what?s happening?
Do we know what might be in store?
This past week alone
Was way more than we can comprehend
So shouldn?t we get real, and understand
That Hashem has a message to send
Kol Dodi Dofek
He?s are father, who wants to come in
Why is it, what?s our problem-
That the door we refuse to open?!?!?
A young father of 10
Niftar after a long illness
Who fought for years
To overcome his tragic sickness
A 16 year old girl,
At the prime of her years
Left several who knew her
Drowning in their tears
A yeshiva bochur in Lakewood
Just collapsed over a Gemora
He went to his final resting place
Straight from a Makom Torah
A baby boy was taken
As Innocent and pure as can be
His precious little neshama
Was returned pretty instantly
A mother with her daughter en-route
To the husband / father on har hazisim
Did it dawn on them that a car crash
Would deem them too as Meissim?
and now this father was just niftar
At his own daughters wedding
HELLO, SPACE IN-
Where are we heading?????
Each of these tragic stories
Come with children, siblings, and friends
These four line short stanzas
Are FAR from where their suffering begins and ends!
I?m certainly not a rav,
Not a rebba, nor a rebbitzin
I just want to share an idea
Something that?s screaming from within!
I think every reader, each subscriber
Should work on ahavas yisroel
That?s should be our utmost priority
To promote Bi?as Hagoel
Let?s forget about chasing kavod
Leave your fortunes and money aside
Just respect, forgive, and be honest
Even if it?s below your sense of pride
It?s nice to do chessed in public
You get all the fanfare and bliss
That?s not what I?m talking about-
JUST BE NICE ? plain Kindness!!
Just be a good person,
Respect each person for who they are
Not for their wealth, their beauty
Or their new 2007 car
There is one word that needs refreshing
And that is – to: FARGIN
It needs lots of practice
Let?s give that all our attention!
Just be happy for others
Just learn to forgive
Let?s practice Ahavas Yisroel
So we can all continue to LIVE!!!
Our life isn?t guaranteed
So what are you going to do?
If we don?t improve, you never know
The next one can be YOU! ?
(chas V?shalom)
PLEASE ? LET?S PUT AN END TO THIS CRAZINESS!
to Itzhak Schier
“the matzos are plywood, which I think I can get much cheaper at Home Depot”
Don’t forget to collect the sawdust for kneidlach
Rav Business!
I need investors. If you wish to partake of my planned “joint-venture”, keep me posted.
Here’s the story: Basically, everyone knows how they are being ripped off by the CH Matzah bakery and what a dump that place is. In the past when I brought mekuravim there, to see what a genuine matzah bakery looks like, I was so embarrassed that I brought them there. I stopped. Now I bring them to the Matzah bakeries in BP and Willy. It’s utterly ridiculous what that place looks like. They had opportunities in the past to purchase the building next door and fix their place up to appear mentshlich. But they obviously didn’t care much as it costs money to. They paid the difference anyways with the rebbe gelt they had to pay in fines for insanitariness as is well known.
But I digress.
It’s not mine nor your business how they should run their business. However it is our business to ensure that we don’t get ripped off.
I suggest that a new Lubavitch Matza Bakery be opened. We will have the approval of enough recognized Rabbonim from all parties. It will be a nice, modern and clean facility. Best of all we will produce fresh tasty Matza and charge a fraction of the price it cost by the other guys.
This is a business opportunity you don’t want to miss. All investors please comment below, if we have enough serious inquires, perhaps we can open in time for this year’s Pesach even.
the truth
Of course they will say that she is Jewish. Did anyone think otherwise? A good way to see if they are telling the truth would be to see if she will continue to work at the bakery. If she is indeed Jewish then there shouldn’t be a problem, right?!
The problem here is that unfortunately those in charge don’t think it’s such a big problem and all they know how to do is try to cover it up and hope it will go away.
The only way to deal with this is that Rabbi Osdoba should be forced to resign from his position since he is totally not capapble. There’s no excuse for what happened! How many more times will he mess up????? And every time he messes up he has different people who have money wiping it up. Maybe he’ll resign on his own because he’ll be too embarrassed to walk on the streets. But then again his sugar daddies will clean up his mess, as usual.
But this is CH and unfortunately the people with the least amount of brains are running the show. Actually there are only two requirements to be in charge: no brains and money.
How difficult is it when you hire a worker to find out if the worker is Jewish. The bochurim who are much younger and have much less experience were able to find out in only a few minutes!!!!!!
Once again, find out if she’s still working there. You can’t fool all the people all the time! The truth always has a way of coming out even if some people think otherwise.
competition
A little competition would do wonders!
There are boruch Hashem enough anash in CH and out of CH that buy matsos.
Another matza bakery would be a blessing!
A small shayla
The Rov is not responsible for the hiring of the workers.I am sure the Rov will look into this deep and wide to see to it that everyone is eating matzah for the sedorim which are 100% lshaym matza mitzva.
I don’t think this is the place and time to vent ones personal dissatisfaction about the matzah now.
It time to get ready for the hayliker Yom Tov BGUR
sad
Mark my words….Whtever r’Osdoba sais r’shwei will say “farkert”
Having a good laugh...
I think there should be a customer service hotline for peoples questions directly from bombay, India…. “TANK YOO FOR KALLING DER MATZAH BAYKARY, DIS IS RAJIF SPEAKING, I AM NOT JEWISH BUT I WILL TRY TOO HELP YOO…..”
ayl
to A. Shliach
hebrew is phonetically writen in hebew there is no word chechser / chechsairim in the english language.
do you make fun of your bali teshuva too?
maybe i am a baal teshuva of you?
maybe i am a supporter of you?
if i am…….
i didn’t and dont claim to be an expert.
i was asking a question.
“right?”
my point was if a rabinic authority gives its name to a business to make A LOT of money. then its their responsibility to make sure everything is kosher v’yosher.
otherwise why should i buy from them and not someone else that cheaper.
dear A. Shliach try not to knock your fellow jew with the screen name A. Shliach it doesn’t come off well, even though you are probably just trying to throw wieght behind your commnets.
a kosher pesach to you and you community.
m. glasser
honorabe people of crown heights:
i have a dear cousin in crown heights and also have been to many a shiur for ladies as well as workshops.
the prevailing attitude is one of “we have chassidus and therefore we are a notch above the rest.” true as a non chassid i see that now a days you really need chassidus inorder to be able to go futher in avodas hakodesh but the above incident is one of many in crown heights that shows
HALACHA L’MISER amongst the common folk is almost ignored. i see that people dont even know basic halacha , dont know when to ask a shiloh or even know when there is one!!!!!!!! WAKE UP JEWS OF THE REBBE!!! chassidus is great but if you dont know basic halacha we can lo aleinu wind up like maskilim!!!!!
just my humble opinion
fondly
a great lover of crown heights
minna glasser
flatbush
Yaakov N.
A few years ago, I joined the Ohlei Torah Chavurah for baking Matzos at the CH Matzo Bakery, and I was shocked and apaaled to see the physical abuse being used againtst the workers. The “Mashgiach/owner” would kick the eldeerly women in their shins if he felt they were not preforming to his expectations. Yes, physical abuse, for the sake of increasing revenue for the Matzah Bakery. the amount of Russian foul language coming out of his mouth was disturbing. I can’t believe that matzah being produced under these conditions can be kosher even Bideeved.
For the past few years, I have been buying my Matzah from the Chareidim Matzah Bakery in Boro Park, by far a much better, crispier and tastier Matzah then the CH Matzoh. The workers at Chariedim are ALL Shomer Shaboss! I question whether any of the CH Matzah, being made by the cheapest possible labor,can be used for the seder due to the Mitzvah haba biavera (women being abused). Also, the possibility of it being “lishmo” is very not likely, besides the fact that the workers not having halachic nemanus.
I feel that it is time that people realize that the CHK is not the only legitamate Hechsher. People should learn the SHU”A and follow Halacha and not accept only what increases more revenue for the CHK and the companys that want a monoply on the Chabad market by claiming that CHK is the only one.
ch ppl have no shame...its a sickness!!
to Rav Business…….
u go open ur bakery…sell the matzah at half price and come back here in two yrs and let us all know that ur broke!! cuz u couldnt afford to pay the 70 workers u have working for u to make 60 matzahs in an hr…cuz u sold the matzah for half price!!! do u realize how many ppl it takes to make one matzah….how do u expect them to sell it for $8 an lb. u have to make some money of it..if u do the math ude realize that by selling it for that much ur making nothing and loosing alot!! go open ur bakery hope u dont come crying back to us to get u out of ur mess!!
CHT
I may surprise many of the posters here and say that older Russian Jews are holier then all of us. You can’t imagine what hell they lived through and yet preserved their pintle yid: Holocaust, Stalin, Soviet oppression and etc.
As far as goy mixing in, there were always wiz from Russia that could screen for that easily. One of them is Meir Okunev and his KGB, there are many other ones as well. R. Ozdoba is a great talmid chochom, but without help of these people he will not be able to clarify this.
BTW. the reason I called that group of people KGB is that the goyim who they identified always said: “You guys work like KGB”
shocked!!
i have to confess that i can not belive i feel soo low as to read such comments from fellow yiddin…lubavitchers nuch…and we wonder why moshiach isnt here!! well ur answers is right here in front of ur eyes!!
Itzhak Schier
to: a crown hieghtser on the west coast
Most bottled water (Poland Spring, Deer Park, Evian, etc) is pure spring water that is bottled straight from the spring. You’re thinking of Dasani and perhaps a couple of others that we’d never use on Pesach anyway, which are indeed filtered water with minerals added.
Marienbad and Vichy that seem to crop up every Pesach are also water to which minerals have been added, but they are under supervision and everyone seems to use them. Perrier is in between – it is bottled at the source and then the gas is added back, but I don’t know how the process takes place.
good laugh!
one good thing that came out of this was a GOOD LAUGH! even the people who said that others think they no best well guess wat u also do just by saying that! everyone can say wat they wont and if your not happy with ch matzos GO BUY THEM SO WHERE ELSE!
ch
wow everyone is seriously mad. the slandering and the gossip doesnt all have to be posted on-line, who are we already if not for chassidim who are supposed to have brotherly love for all jews? and if you think you know the halacha why dont you speak to the people who can do something about it
To be a chossid
Hoyom Yom from a short while ago indicates that to be a chossid is to know halacha, and how to apply it!!!
And, RE:SAD… Whatever Rabbi Scwhei ever says, R’ Ozdoba says the opposite!!!
Foon dos is keinmol nit kein rayah about what is right and what is wrong. And, yes…there will always be those “heavy weights” with the money who will be cleaning up after those guys. Absolutely not even a shred of yiras shomayim among the whole big lot of them!!!
C.H. Resident and very serious
To Rabbi Osdoba (Brook),
Why should we pay for your mistake?!
How about you pay for our 6 Matsos now and we’ll see after Pesach what should be done!
We don’t have time now, we’re busy for Pesach!!!!!
tzvi
q-whats the dif. between matza and carboard.
a-matza makes crumbs.
someone
This is so not good
The bottom line
Let the bakery bake until Pesach matzos that are 100 % leshem matzas mitzvah and give enough for the sdorim to everyone that already bought.
Let the hechsher do the hiring
The hechsher should not rely anymore upon owners or others hired by the owners for kashrus.
The mashgiach should be somebody that is a Talmid Chochom Himself, an irei shomaim etc that didn’t have a bad name even in his youth, that was never involved in politics.
He should geta high salary that is put aside by an honest third party for him from before the baking season starts, so he could be assured of his parnosso not matter what he says.
Rabbonim that give hechsherim should get their money from the community and not from “for profit” Hechsherim.
It is a big nisoion not to be a nogeah bedovor when you need the money paid for hechsherim for your income etc.
This includes all for profit hechsherim, even if they call themselves differently. Not only Lubavitch (or headed by Lubavitchers) hechsherim.
The community should either not get an income from the hechsherim, but if they decide to do so, it should not be relied upon and should go to yeshivas or other non-depending on them institutions.
In the meantime it is better to do most of our cooking from scratch at home not only for Pesach but all year around.
It probably will be tastier and healthier.
A kosher un freilichen Pesach for all
and that the matzos we eat this peasach should bring the much needed asvoso (refuo) and emuno bepnimius.
Moshiach now!!!!!
MJ
AN OPEN LETTER TO RABBI AND MRS TENENBAUM
Dear Rabbi and Mrs. Tenenbaum,
For the past 17 years you have been exemplary neighbors. You have taken on leadership responsibilities on a volunteer basis in our condominium building and have asisted our family personally over the years. Mrs. Tenenbaum, I am particulary grateful for the time after the birth of our second child, Yossi, when without being asked you took on the task of escorting our older child to school for the remaining six months of the school year. A year later, when Yossi had his accident your family, again, came to our assistance in many ways.
All the above is evidence of your fine character. I deeply respect the way that you have handled the situation at your matzah bakery.
The matzah bakery has always been an open institution. Thousands, especially children, have observed the scrupulous attention that must be given to make proper matzahs through visits to your establishment. An open door allows all to see the attention that you give to the meticulous aspects of matzah prepartaion.
The bold and forthright way in which you took on your challenge shows great Yiras Shomayim and Ahavas Israel. Your actions have further strenghtened my family’s trust in your integrity and the supremacy of the kashrut of the matzah bakery.
My first visit to a matzah bakery was a Hebrew school trip to a commercial bakery (square matzohs) on the Lower East Side. It was fun and memorable to see how the matzohs that my family used for Passover were prepared. In addition, I shall note that unbeknownest to me for over two decades you had provided the sole box of Shumarh Matahs for my grandmother’s seder table as a gift to my uncle a business associate of yours.
My family now uses the Shumarh Matzahs. Your family is Mehudar and that is why we choose your matzahs.
Wishing you a Chag Kosher V’Samaech. Wishing you much future blessing for your family and matzah bakery.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Chana Pesha Jacobson