Instead, Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai enacted that the new grain harvest becomes permissible following the date on which the offering was brought in ancient times.

Although the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud record a Tannaitic dispute about applicability outside Israel[4] the majority of medieval Jewish scholars (e.g. Moses Maimonides, the Rif, and the Rosh) forbade its consumption.

[6] Additionally, the manner in which various foods have historically been available has meant that Jewish populations would need to risk starvation to pursue stringent compliance with this aspect of kashrut.

[10] From the writing of his followers, it has recently been published that Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn – the fifth Chabad Rebbe – was scrupulous in refraining from Chadash products when he attended a Siyyum of Yeshivah students.

[11] In modern times, particularly in developed countries, food is much more readily available than it historically had been, and grain is in sufficient abundance that many Orthodox Jews have become more interested in observing chadash restrictions.