Shtar Harsha’ah 5784
We the undersigned grant all authority, by means of signature, whether transmitted by fax, email or other means to Rabbi David Kosak that he be appointed and authorized by us to sell all of our hametz, of all kinds, whether it is pure, an admixture, or merely an item that might have hametz contained therein. We also authorize him in the sale of any partial ownership of hametz that we may share with any non-Jew, whether such hametz is found in our house, attic, basement or places outside of our house, on the sea or on the land; so too may he sell any hametz over which we do not have ownership but do have authority. We grant him full power according to the laws of the Torah and the laws of this country or any country in which we have any of the sorts of ownership or authority mentioned above. Rabbi Kosak is also granted full authority to sell any animals of ours that are nourished and feed on hametz in any and all locales where they are found. Furthermore, he may sell this hametz in any manner he wishes and to any one he wishes, with as many agents as he appoints. Even if no money is transferred at the point of sale, we will accept the sale as fully binding in all its particulars; nor will we ever make any claim against that sale’s legal validity.
Rabbi Kosak is authorized by us to rent all of the places in which our hametz or our animals are found, and to rent access and full rights of passage and foot traffic to those places to the purchaser of said hametz who may seize there any vessels and moveable property connected with the hametz.
In addition, Rabbi Kosak and any of his assignees are also authorized to sell any hametz that may come into our possession until the 14th of Nisan at 11:58 am, the very hour until which it is permitted to buy and sell hametz and items and things in which such impermissible fermentation/leavening might occur. (One should not eat hametz after 10:47 am). Should such fermentation/leavening occur from the moment of signing this contract, or even during Passover, we distance ourselves from any sort of ownership of it, and relinquish any rights to it. The non-Jewish buyer has full rights to such hametz as to any other ownerless property.
Authority is in Rabbi Kosak’s hands to actuate this sale using whatever instruments he deems effective according to Torah law and according to governmental law; we will consider this sale as binding as if carried out by the highest and most influential religious or secular court.
Our signature below, in whatever manner it is transmitted to Rabbi Kosak, indicates our full and unconditional acceptance of all of the terms outlined above.
