Many of those who do not eat Gebrokts make Gebrokts and eat it on the last day of Pesach. However, this year the last day of Pesach is on Shabbos, so one cannot make Gebrokts on the last day this year.
I know for a fact that there are those who make Gebrokts this year on the Seventh day of Pesach. To me this is hard to understand. If Gebrokts is a problem during the first 7 days of Pesach, then how can one make Gebrokts this year on the Seventh Day?
My wife and I have raised this issue with some Chassidim, but to us there does not appear to be an answer to this question. If you can can shed light on this issue, please email me.
I believe that in years like this one, they only prepare the gebrocks food on the seventh day which is Friday but don't actually eat it until Friday night or Shabbos. I'm not aware of anyone who doesn't eat gebrocks who actually eats it this year on the 7th Day.
If it were a real halachic problem then it could not be eaten on the eighth day either. But it is not a real halachic problem, it is only a chumra, because a cheshash of chometz. Al pi din one does not have to worry about this cheshash, and one may eat it even on the first day, which is why nobody has any objection whatsoever to your choice to do so; but since it *is* a real cheshash there are many who choose to be stricter during the first seven days. That doesn't make it forbidden. So when the eighth day is on Shabbos the only question that arises is whether to prepare it on the Friday using the eruv tavshilin, or to do so on Erev Yomtov.
: I believe that in years like this one, they only prepare the gebrocks
: food on the seventh day which is Friday but don't actually eat it until
: Friday night or Shabbos. I'm not aware of anyone who doesn't eat gebrocks
: who actually eats it this year on the 7th Day.
With geborchts, the minhag is based on a fear that one might end up with
actual chameitz. The odds are small enough that for halakhah the risk
is ignorible. But on the level of minhag, and when chameitz is assur
deOraisa...
So why aren't you worried about bal yeira'eh as much as akhilah? If you
can't eat gebrochts for 7 days, how can you own it?
Is it akhlah's issur qareis? Or is it that there is damage done al pi
qabbalah when eating that isn't done when owning? (And are those two
possibilities really seperable?)
Many of those who do not eat Gebrokts make Gebrokts and eat it
on the last day of Pesach. However, this year the last day of
Pesach is on Shabbos, so one cannot make Gebrokts on the last
day this year.
I know for a fact that there are those who make Gebrokts this
year on the Seventh day of Pesach. To me this is hard to understand.
If Gebrokts is a problem during the first 7 days of Pesach, then how
can one make Gebrokts this year on the Seventh Day?
Here's the logic:
What's wrong with gebrokts? It might be chometz.
What's wrong with chometz? It's an issur karays!
Really? Always?
No, only if you eat it. No karays for just owning it.
So I believe that they are being machmir to avoid eating gebrokts on the
first 7 days, but not on the 8th day. And merely owning gebrokts is not a
problem even on the first 7 days.
(I am not intimately familiar with the ins and outs of gebroks, and what I
have written is merely my guess. If someone would tell me that these people
would not even own gebrokts on the first 6 days and make an exception only
on the 7th, my guess would be that this is not intrinsically related to
chometz, but is merely a protective measure, to avoid the temptation of
having edible gebrokts around the house.)
If anyone is surprised by my suggestion that someone would be machmir
against eating chometz, and meikil on owning it, let me point out that this
is exactly how Chazal designed the fifth hour of Erev Pesach morning.
Also consider that even if a speck of chametz does form it will be less than a kezayis, and therefore not chashuv, so there will be no bal yeira'eh, but eating it would still be an issur d'oraisa.