As you may recall (or you can refresh your memory here ), I have been going 'round and 'round about whether I can drink a certain beer that I had already purchased before any concerns were known. The concern was and is: חמץ שעבר עליו הפסח; the brewery in question is Jewish owned (100% Jewish owned, in fact, which is a relevant factor, as will be explained shortly) and they do not sell nor otherwise divest themselves of חמץ during Passover. That makes any beer that is produced from said חמץ forbidden to all Jews forever by rabbinic decree as a קנס/penalty. There several reasons I have spent so much time on this. The least reason was that I like that beer and I was at risk of losing $15 worth of it; that is: the remaining 18 bottles from the case I had bought before the news broke. I will not buy this beer again unless/until they come under kosher supervision, but $15 is $15 dollars. A vastly more important reason I have spent so much time on this is that t...
This is a paraphrase of the pasuk in t'hillim 84:7 -- "mei'chayil el chayil" -- which means "from strength to strength". In this case, it is my thoughts and ideas to those who are strong enough to be interested :)