GUIDE FOR EREV PESACH ON SHABBAT (HALACHA AND SCHEDULE) THURSDAY March 25 (Nisan 12) The Fast of firstborns (and accompanying siyum) would usually be on Erev Pesach. This year, since Erev Pesach is shabbat, the fast (and accompanying siyum) is pushed up to Thursday. One may participate in the siyum over zoom (info below). Bedikat Chometz is not done on shabbat so it gets pushed up to Thursday Night. 6:45 AM - Shacharit (with siyum, could be as early as 7:05 ) 8:00 AM - Shacharit (with siyum, could be as early as 8:20) Both Siyyumim will be on zoom (www.bethsholom.org/zoom) 8:05 PM - Earliest time for Bedikat Chametz FRIDAY March 26 (Nisan 13) 9:00 - 11:00 AM - We will have a chometz burning in the shul parking lot (with masks and social distancing) Chometz is burned on Friday anytime until 12 PM. Vessels may be kashered all the way until shabbat! Try to do all of your Seder Preparations before shabbat. Light a Yohrsteit candle (preferably a 48 or 72 hour one) so you can light candles on Motzai Shabbat and Sunday Night. Friday night dinner can have chometz (use paper products!) or Matzah. SATURDAY March 27 (Nisan 14 - Erev Pesach) WHAT TO DO ABOUT SHABBAT MEALS ON EREV PESACH: If your general custom is to to eat bread for Seudah Shlishit on shabbat, then you should have one very quick meal (consisting of kiddush, hamotzie and Birchat Hamazon). After that meal is over, go on a quick walk and then begin a new meal for seudah shlishit. The bread part of that meal must be finished by 10:45 am (the last permissible time to eat Chometz). The Hamotzie can either be made on real bread (but make sure to only leave over enough for Lechem two loaves for each meal) or it can be made on Egg Matzah. The rest of the meal should be 100 percent kosher for Pesach and may be eaten after 10:45 am. If you generally do not eat bread for seudah shlishit, then you only need to have one Hamotzie before 10:45 and feel free to fulfill your Seudah Shlishit requirement by having meat, cheese or fruit later in the day. After you dispose of any leftover breadcrumbs on shabbat morning, say the Kol Chamira (nullification of chometz) paragraph found in Haggadah. If finishing your meals before 10:45 am is too challenging (or if you are very worried about having chometz crumbs in your house), you may rely on those who say one may eat egg matzah (Matzah Ashirah) on erev Pesach and use Egg Matzah for lunch and seduah shlishit even after 10:45 am. But one should finish all big meals before 4:20 PM (even if using egg matzah) so that one will eat at the seder with an appetite! Schedule for shabbat: 8:00 AM - Shacharit 10:45 AM - Latest Time for Eating Chometz 7:10 PM - Mincha 7:25 PM (approx.) - Maariv 8:07 PM - Light candles and Preparations for seder may begin Kiddush is referred to as YAKNEHAZ (which stands for the order of the blessings). Just follow the special instructions in your Haggadah. Use the Yom Tov candles (that have been lit from a pre-existing flame) for the fire during the Havdalah portion of Kiddush. Leave the candles in place and simply raise your hands to the light of the Yom Tov candles as you say “Boreih Meorei Ha-esh”..