0311 - R' Zalman Vilenkin - Sugar Factory Part 6

00:00 Another story that my Zayda told me, Beneger Rebbe Levi Yitzchak, the Rebbe's father. They asked him to give a hechsher on a sugar factory for Pesach. So he went to see the factory to see what's going on in order to see if he could give a hechsher or not. He came there, and he's looking, went from stage to stage in the whole process of the sugar. And the way the Seder was, that first they would put the sugar cane into a vat, and that would cook, and it would become like a liquid, and then it would flow through some conveyor belt and go out through a place where it was open, actually, and the sugar, the hot sugar would pass through, and then it would come to a different area, and there it would dry up, and et cetera, et cetera, whatever it was. So he went from place to place to see how it's going. So he went to the first place, then he came to the other area where the hot sugar was passing through this conveyor belt or whatever we call it, and it was hot sugar. But as I said, it was open. And there was a person who was taking care, standing there to make sure everything goes fine. It was a goy. And the Rebbe's father walked in, and he saw the goy standing there and the sugar going through, and then he saw this goy take out a piece of bread from his pocket, and he stuck it

01:15 into the hot sugar to give the bread some taste, and he ate it. And when he saw that, he said he's not giving a hechsher because here you can't be sure that there is no chametz there, and therefore he didn't give the hechsher at all.