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Table of Contents HALACHOT ON PESAH Authored by Rabbi Eli J. Mansour Updated March 22, 2018 Provided by Torah Learning Resources Ltd. and The Edmond J Safra Synagogue We ask that you kindly donate funds to Rebbittsen Mansour’s Malchut Yosef Fund which provides clothing, food, and other needs for hundreds of families in New York for Pesah. Go to www.dailyhalacha.com and click the banner at the top- “Kimha De’Pisha” If you haven’t done so already, log on to www.dailyhalacha.com to have Rabbi Mansour sell your Hames for Pesah. Table of Contents BASIC HALACHOT IN PREPARATION FOR PESAH ........................................................................................................ 5 Thirty Days Before Pesah .................................................................................................................................................. 5 Kimha De’pischa – Donating Charity to the Poor Before Pesah ....................................................................................... 5 Proper Procedures to Follow When Baking Masot ........................................................................................................... 6 The Water Used for Baking Masa ..................................................................................................................................... 7 The Procedure for Kashering Stove Grates, Oven Racks, Blechs, and Tablecloths ........................................................... 8 Verbally Designating Meat for Pesah ................................................................................................................................ 8 Precautions During Massa Baking ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Baking Massot on Ereb Pesah ........................................................................................................................................... 9 Soaking Massa in Liquid .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Bedikat Hames After the Home Was Thoroughly Cleaned ............................................................................................. 10 The Time for Bedikat Hames ........................................................................................................................................... 11 The Procedure for Bedikat Hames .................................................................................................................................. 12 When & How To Conduct Bedikat Hames ...................................................................................................................... 13 The Beracha Recited Before Bedikat Hames .................................................................................................................. 13 Does One Recite "She'he'heyanu" Before Searching for Hames? .................................................................................. 14 Bedikat Hames in a Hotel Room ..................................................................................................................................... 15 Is It Required To Make Bedikat (Searching For) Hames in One's Vehicle ....................................................................... 15 Bringing Books to the Table, Using Tablecloths .............................................................................................................. 16 Must One Search for Hames in the Areas Containing the Hames That He Sells? ........................................................... 16 Bittul Hames, Preparing the Hames for Burning ............................................................................................................. 17 Selling Hames .................................................................................................................................................................. 17 The Status of Hames After Pesah .................................................................................................................................... 18 Selling Hames in a Case Where One Spends Pesah in a Different Time Zone ................................................................ 19 Page 1 of 83 If The Appointed Rabbi in America Sold One’s Hames After Pesah Began For Him Israel ............................................. 19 Must One Own the Massa to Fulfill the Misva? .............................................................................................................. 20 Paying for Masa............................................................................................................................................................... 20 Laws and Customs of Ereb Pesah .................................................................................................................................... 21 Laws of Ereb Pesah ......................................................................................................................................................... 21 The First Born, If A Son, Fasts on Erev Pesah .................................................................................................................. 22 Ereb Pesah – Ta’anit Bechorot for Women, Halachot of the Siyum ............................................................................... 23 The Fast on Erev Pesah ................................................................................................................................................... 24 Must Women Recite the Full Hallel Before the Seder? .................................................................................................. 25 Is It Permissible To Eat Matzah, Marror, or Eggs on Erev Pesah .................................................................................... 25 Erev Pesah – If One Mistakenly Ate Masa; Eating Masa Meal Products; Eating Marror and Eggs ................................. 26 How to Take Halla from Massa? ..................................................................................................................................... 27 What are the practical applications of “Stolen Massa?” ................................................................................................ 27 Baking Massa on Erev Pesah ........................................................................................................................................... 28 Egg Massa........................................................................................................................................................................ 28 WHEN PESAH FALLS STARTS ON FRIDAY NIGHT ....................................................................................................... 29 When the First Night of Pesah is Friday Night ................................................................................................................ 29 Reciting Me’en Sheba on Pesah Night When it Falls on Shabbat ................................................................................... 29 Habdala When the Seder is Held on Mosa’eh Shabbat .................................................................................................. 30 Do We Eat a Hardboiled Egg at the Seder If Pesah Falls Out On Mosa'e Shabbat ......................................................... 32 What Massa Must be Used for the Seder Night? ........................................................................................................... 33 BASIC HALACHOT OF THE SEDER ............................................................................................................................. 33 Using Specifically "Matza Shemura" at the Seder .......................................................................................................... 33 Use Your Best Dishes & The Proper Time for Kiddush .................................................................................................... 34 The Keara ........................................................................................................................................................................ 35 The Pesah Seder – Using a Seder Plate, Kissing the Masa, the Procedure For Pouring Out Wine While Listing the Ten Plagues ............................................................................................................................................................................ 35 The Spiritual Lights That Come Down at the Seder ........................................................................................................ 36 Some Laws Regarding KADESH on Seder Night .............................................................................................................. 37 May Grape Juice be Used For the Four Cups of Wine at the Seder? .............................................................................. 38 Must One Drink Four Cups of Wine If Wine Makes Him Sick?........................................................................................ 39 How Much Wine Must One Drink for the Four Cups at the Seder? ............................................................................... 40 Do We Recite “Boreh Peri Ha’gefen” Before Each of the Four Cups? ............................................................................ 41 Laws of "Heseiba" – Leaning at the Seder .....................................................................................................................
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