Got Chametz?
Your Passover 2008 Guide
to Getting Rid of Chametz
What is Chametz?
Chametz is anything made with the
flour of the five species of grain (wheat, spelt, oats, barley, and rye), which is mixed with water and allowed to ferment before being baked.
Matzo Is
Unleavened Bread
Unique to Passover is the eating of matzo or unleavened bread, and the stringent prohibition of eating or possessing chometz.Chometz is a general term for all food and drink made from wheat, barley,
rye, oats, spelt or their derivatives,
which is forbidden on Passover
because it is leavened. Even a food that contains only a trace of chometz
is prohibited and must be removed
from our homes.
Passover Matzoh
* Note: Matzoh used all year round is not for Passover use.
Only matzah baked especially for Passover may be used on Passover.
Getting Rid of Chametz
Obvious chometz -- both food and utensils used throughout the year (and not kosher for Passover) -- should be stored in closets or rooms that are not easily accessible (locked or taped shut). This chometz should be sold to a non-Jew, as will be explained.Clean the entire house thoroughly to remove all crumbs and small pieces of food. Show special attention to making the kitchen and dining room kosher for Passover. Also check for chometz in the car and office (desks and drawers, etc.), clothes, pockets (especially the children's), pocketbooks and attache cases. Vacuum cleaner bags should be discarded or cleaned.
Before the Passover Festival
Sell Your Chametz
Passover Date: Thursday, April 17 – Nissan 12
If you haven't already done so, sell your chometz. Your local Chabad rabbi can help. You can download your “Authorization for the Sale of Chometz” form here.
Search for Chometz
Search for the chometz after dark.
Recite the blessing prior to the search, and the nullification of the chometz (Kol Chamira) following the search.
Sell and Burn Your Chametz
Before the Passover holiday begins, you must sell your chometz and burn your chometz.Passover Date: Friday,April 18 – Nissan 13
Last chance to sell your chometz.
Burn your remaining (unsold) chometz before the fifth seasonal hour. Leave behind challah that will be eaten during night and morning Shabbat meals. It isn’t forbidden to eat chometz until the end of the fourth seasonal hour on Saturday morning, but since it is impossible to destroy chometz on Shabbat – the chometz must be destroyed on Friday. This year, when burning the chometz, we do not recite the passage wherein we declare all chometz in our possession to be null and void. Instead this passage is recited the next morning. [The Yehi Ratzon, however, is recited while burning the chometz.]
Shabbat Before the Passover Festival
Both Shabbat meals should be completely kosher for Passover with the exception of two ounces of challah per person per meal. (It is forbidden to eat matzoh on the day before Passover.) If the Challah is very fresh, it shouldn't be too crumbly. You can eat it over a tissue, being careful to consume or contain the crumbs and then flush the tissue. Be sure that no challah crumbs fall on the table or the floor.What is the Jewish Passover festival?
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