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Shabbos, 10 Nissan, 5780 - For local candle Your complete guide to this Wednesday, lighting times visit week's halachos and minhagim. 14 Nissan, 5780 Chabad.org/Candles Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus, this • After Minchah we recite part of the Haggadah, Shabbos minyanim will not be taking place. from Avadim hayinu until lechaper al kol However, we still felt it appropriate to include avonoseinu.4 the halachos associated with tefillah betzibur, • At the end of Maariv, omit Viyhi Noam and etc., in this issue of the Luach. Ve’atah Kadosh.5 See the Luach of last week for a selection of halachos relevant to the current situation, as well as segulos from our Rebbeim for protection. Additional relevant details are Sunday interspersed in this week’s Luach. Yom Habahir Yud-Alef Nissan, 5780 On this day Shabbos Today is the 118th anniversary of the Rebbe’s 10 Nissan, 5780 birth. Using the necessary precautions, Parshas Tzav, Shabbos Hagadol utilize the day for mivtzo’im, to learn teachings of the Rebbe, and to participate Things to do in a farbrengen. • This Shabbos is called Shabbos Hagadol, in commemoration of the miraculous civil war in which the firstborn Egyptians fought against their Things to do parents and Pharaoh.1 • In today’s haftorah, when reaching the words • We begin to say kapitel 119. avdah ha’emunah venichresah mipihem • Today’s Nassi is Shevet Asher. (Yirmiyahu 7:28), we skip the subsequent pessukim and continue with Ko amar Hashem al yis’halel chacham bechachmaso (ibid. 9:22-23).2 • We don’t say Av Harachamim and Tzidkas’cha. Monday • Today’s Nassi is Shevet Dan. 12 Nissan, 5780 • It is customary for the rav to give a derashah in which he discusses the relevant halachos of Things to do Pesach.3 • Today’s Nassi is Shevet Naftali. 1 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תל ס"א. וראה לקו"ש חל"ז ע' 7 בארוכה הדיעות בזה. 4 ספר המנהגים ע' 37. הרבי נהג לאומרה עם הציבור, בישיבה על מקומו. 2 ספר המנהגים ע' 33. 5 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' רצה ס"ג. 3 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תכט ס"ב. Tuesday Tuesday night 13 Nissan, 5780 14 Nissan, 5780 Things to do On this day Bedikas Chametz Today marks the anniversary of the histalkus • Bedikas chametz is done immediately after of the Tzemach Tzedek in 5626 (1866). Maariv.10 Do not eat a meal,11 learn, or perform His resting place is in Lubavitch. For more any other engaging activity from a half hour information about the Tzemach Tzedek, before nightfall.12 visit www.chabad.org/3268073. • If you are accustomed to davening at home, do bedikas chametz first and then daven Maariv. If, however, you generally daven with a minyan, even if Things to do you are unable to do so today and are davening at home, daven first and then do bedikas chametz.13 • Today’s Nassi reading is from Zos chanukas • Before bedikas chametz, set aside all chametz hamizbei’ach until kein asah es hamenorah that will be eaten later tonight and/or tomorrow 14 (corresponding to Shevet Levi, but we don’t say and place it in a secure location. a Yehi Ratzon).6 • Ten pieces of hard bread, each less than a • If you haven’t sold your chametz yet, make sure kezayis, should be hidden throughout the house, 15 to do so today. Chametz may be sold to a Rov wrapped in paper (but not foil, which does not via the internet (or by phone or email), and burn). Those hiding the chametz should mark there is no need to go to him in person. There down where they were placed, so they can be 16 is also no need to make a kinyan in the current easily located if necessary. circumstance. (You can also sell your chametz by • Recite the berachah of Al Biur Chametz. Do not visiting www.chabad.org/chametz.) speak between the berachah and the bedikah, • Tuesday night is the last night to recite Kiddush even about bedikah-related subjects. It is better Levanah, which may be said until 4:36 a.m.7 to refrain from speaking about non-bedikah- 17 • If you are unable to go outdoors, you may say related subjects until finishing the bedikah. Kiddush Levanah by observing the moon through • Additional family members can join in the a window. If possible, open the window as well.8 bedikah by listening to your berachah and then • If there is only one other person present when proceeding to search in a designated section of saying Kiddush Levanah, say Sholom Aleichem the house. They should begin by searching a bit 18 to him three times.9 in the room where the berachah was recited. • Search any area where chametz may have been brought, even irregularly.19 Don’t forget to search your car, office, and similar places (unless the chametz there is being sold, and the area will be 10 ספר המנהגים ע' sealed off for the duration of Pesach). .37 11 שו"ע אדמוה"ז סי' ת"ע ס"ז. 12 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תלא ס"ה. 13 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תלא ס"ו. לקו"ש חי"ז ע' 434. 14 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תלד ס"ב. 15 ספר המנהגים ע' 37. 16 נטעי גבריאל פ"ח ס"ח. 6 לקו"ש חל"ב ע' 19 הערה 1. 17 סידור אדה"ז, סדר בדיקת וביעור חמץ. 7 לוח כולל חב"ד. 18 סידור אדה"ז, סדר בדיקת וביעור חמץ. 8 נ"כ השו"ע או"ח סי' תכו ס"ד. 19 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תלג סי"ג. 9 מטה משה סי' תקמ. • Search by the light of a wax candle, using the • We get up early to daven.26 We omit Mizmor feather to sweep up any chametz into a paper Lesodah.27 bag.20 Where necessary, a flashlight may be used. • It is our custom to spend a great deal of time Taanis Bechoros searching for chametz.21 • All firstborn males fast today.28 It is customary for • If you are unable to find all of the ten pieces, fathers to fast on behalf of their firstborn sons consult a rav. who are not yet bar mitzvah.29 • Following the search, place the bag, feather, • It has become customary to participate in a siyum and whatever is left of the candle into a wooden maseches, allowing the participants to partake in spoon. Next, wrap it all with paper, except for the a seudas mitzvah and end their fast.30 If you must handle of the spoon which remains uncovered. remain at home, a siyum may be made over a Finally, secure it by wrapping the paper with a masechta of Mishnayos (e.g., Maseches Avos). A string and tying it.22 less preferable option is to participate in a siyum • Recite the first Kol Chamira, nullifying any chametz over the phone. that was not found. If you do not understand • Although a firstborn boy under bar mitzvah does Aramaic, say it in a language you understand. not fast, it is customary to bring him to shul to • Safeguard all chametz in a secure place until it is hear a siyum.31 burnt tomorrow.23 Burning the Chametz • All chametz must be consumed before the end of the fourth halachic hour of the day. For the exact time in your location, visit www.chabad. Wednesday org/zmanim. 14 Nissan, 5780 | Erev Pesach • Burn the chametz you found last night during bedikas chametz, as well as any other chametz that will not be sold. Recite the second Kol On this day Chamira, nullifying any remaining chametz, and say the accompanying Yehi Ratzon. Today is the birthday of the Rambam. • If you do not have access to a fire, flush the remaining chametz down the toilet, or douse it with a cleaning agent. Things to do • The chametz must be burnt before the end of the fifth halachic hour of the day. For the exact time • It is forbidden to eat matzah today (as opposed to in your location, visit www.chabad.org/zmanim. until now, when it was merely customary to refrain • Today before this time, search all clothing pockets 24 from eating it). It is our custom to also refrain where chametz may have been placed.32 from eating any of the ingredients included in • Hair and nails should be cut before chatzos. (If you the charoses and maror (namely, apples, pears, have not done so, nails may be cut afterward, but walnuts, lettuce, and horseradish) until tomorrow hair may only be cut afterward by a non-Jew.)33 night after korech.25 26 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תכט סט"ז. 20 ספר המנהגים ע' 37. 27 סידור אדה"ז. 21 אג"ק ח"ב ע' שדמ. 28 שו"ע סי' תע. 22 ספר המנהגים ע' 37. 29 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תע ס"ד. 23 סידור אדה"ז, סדר בדיקת וביעור חמץ. 30 לקו"ש חי"ז ע' 67. וראה פסקי דינים סי' תע סקי"א בענין אם צריכים המשתתפים לאכול בשעת הסיום. 24 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תעא ס"ד. 31 ראה סה"ש תנש"א ח"ב ע' 719. 25 ספר המנהגים ע' 37. ולכאורה בליל הסדר הראשון בחו"ל אין חשש לאכול חרוסת ומרור ב'שולחן עורך' כמו שאין 32 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תלג סמ"ב-סמ"ג. איסור לאוכלם בליל ערב-פסח )וכן משמע בשוע"ר סי' תעא סי"א שחילק את אי-האכילה בע"פ וביום א' דפסח לשני 33 שו"ע אדה"ז סי' תסח ס"ד וס"ו.