Why this faithful Latter-day Saint drives six hours to buy liquor he will never drink

He will never see or taste the Oreos and half-eaten boxes of Cheerios he buys. He purchases them anyway to help a rabbi friend honor his faith.

Itamar Rosensweig, left, Chaim Saiman and Nathan Oman present the contract used to transfer the title of Jewish families' leavened goods and the cupboards where they're stored to Oman, a Latter-day Saint, during Passover.According to Jewish law, no amount of yeast, sourdough or baking powder — leaven — is allowed in one’s home during the week of Passover, which began Monday evening, as per the biblical Book of Exodus.

, has made the six-hour drive from his home in Virginia to sit down with Rabbi Itamar Rosensweig outside Philadelphia and sign a contract written almost entirely in Hebrew. In exchange for the goods, Oman provides 200 silver dollar coins and, for reasons having to do with arguments over Jewish law, a handkerchief.

That’s not all. Say the owner of a vacation home doesn’t want to bother with a pre-Passover cleaning. Oman can help with that, too, taking short-term ownership over a beachfront apartment. There are layers as to why Oman makes the trips to Philly. For one, the self-described “law/religion contract geek” gets a major kick out of it.For another, he sees it as kindness to a longtime friend and his friend’s faith.

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