Halakhah for Pesachim 55:11

<big>גמ׳</big> מני מתניתין לא רבי יהודה ולא רבי שמעון ולא רבי יוסי הגלילי מאי היא דתניא חמץ בין לפני זמנו בין לאחר זמנו עובר עליו בלאו תוך זמנו עובר עליו בלאו וכרת דברי רבי יהודה

It was taught in accordance with R'Joseph: If he was travelling in the desert, he crushes [the idol] and throws it to the wind; if he was travelling in a ship, he crushes and casts it into the sea. [The teaching requiring] 'crushing' is a difficulty according to Rabbah, [while the teaching requiring] 'crumbling' is a difficulty according to R'Jose? 'Crushing' is not a difficulty according to Rabbah: one means into the Dead Sea,13 the other means into other waters.' Crumbling' is not a difficulty according to R'Joseph: One refers to wheat [grains],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which had turned leaven. These must be crumbled, i.e., scattered into the sea. But they may not be tied in a sack and thrown into the sea, lest someone finds the sack.');">14 the other refers to bread. <big>MISHNAH: </big>LEAVEN BELONGING TO A GENTILE OVER WHICH PASSOVER HAS PASSED15 IS PERMITTED FOR USE; BUT THAT OF AN ISRAELITE IS FORBIDDEN FOR USE, BECAUSE IT IS SAID, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE LEAVEN SEEN WITH THEE.16 <big>GEMARA: </big>Who is [the authority of] our Mishnah: it is neither R'Judah nor R'Simeon nor R'Jose the Galilean. What is this [allusion]? - For it was taught: [As to] leaven, both before its time and after its time, he transgresses a negative command on its account; during its time, he transgresses a negative command and [commits a sin subject to] kareth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During its (forbidden) time means during Passover. Before its time, from six hours (mid-day) on the fourteenth of Nisan until evening, when Passover commences; after its time, after Passover - i.e., leaven which was kept from before until after Passover. He transgresses by eating it.');">17

Sefer HaChinukh

And they, may their memory be blessed, already informed us (Sanhedrin 21b) why we do not know the reason for all of the commandments; and they said that the thing is that it not become a stumbling block for us. And they brought a proof, as behold, the reason for three of them was revealed, and a great man of the world stumbled upon them. And let not a quibbler think to come against me with the metaphor that they, may their memory be blessed, said (Pesachim 28a), "The spoon carved by the carpenter will burn his mouth with mustard," about that which I said now: That God, may He be blessed, hid the reasons from the commandments from us, and [yet] I have raised my hand to speak about them to my youth. As my teachers have already preceded me to speak several things about them in the Midrashim and in other places, by way of their simple understanding. And the depth of their wisdom, the strength of their understanding and their great holiness is stored in them - and even all the winds of the world cannot move them. And [regarding] anyone who is [able to] deepen counsel in their simple understanding, because he longs to 'peer through the lattice,' to delight in the splendor of their vision and to gather from their leaves to gird himself with them - it is not fit to place blame upon him, but to bless him and to mention him for praise, 'in that he is there.'

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