Challas Oni better than Schlissel Challa

                                                                                                                                                                                    גורן מגזם -דגן מדלקת 

The Rashal used to Darshen that everybody should bake a Challah (before Pesach) using the Pesachdike flour. This way  if there was any  Chometz in the flour we will assume that the Chometz was baked in the Challah and eaten.

It is also a good thing to give this Challah to an Oni (poor man)

The Noheg Katzon Yosef quotes the Rosh “The Minhag on Erev Shabbos Hagodol  is to bake

 חלת עני from the whole Kehilla and distribute it to the Aniyim.

 From the time this Minhag was  neglected, a curse was sent on the grain.”