Daily Chidush: Hilchot Pesach Part 2

hello this is part two of the of p as we said the in regards to the the most important to get rid of is the inside us uh to uh not go over the entire issue again but just to give you a perspective in a in a story there was one guy that was a very big Gan very big prideful person very arrogant one day he arrives at the sh and the rabbi sees this guy with his head in the sky and the nose even higher and he says to them ah p is coming up I uh I know you don't keep it but uh one day you'll do CH the guy says no no no what are you talking about Rabbi keep p goes no you don't keep P of course you violate P go no Rabbi what are you talking about I keep PES how could you talk to me this way he says well you know in PES we have to get rid of the and you know we say that part of getting rid of theet is burning the ketz and you know whatever we uh we haven't found and we don't know of we say that says that whatever is uh that I know of or don't know of is considered dust and Ashes but when you say it there's no way that you can mean it he says why would you say that Rabbi he goes because we say the same blessing for ourselves to Hashem every single day we say Hashem consider us like dust and Ashes we are only dust and Ashes AEM and uh you know we shouldn't get any any uh you know shouldn't have any Pride there's no reason for us to be prideful so just like you don't mean it every day when you pray you probably don't mean it during during P so the rabbi was had a very clever way of teaching this guy a little bit of M to bring him back to Earth because again it's very very important time to do CH is p because again we have to be reminded when we were in Egypt the ones that survived as we said in our lecture some say was only one out of five survived and there's actually a mid in that says one out of 500,000 Jews survived MIT and actually reached the mount sa and received the tah one out of 500,000 that means two out of every million and those two the few million that actually survived were still in the 49th level of Tuma 49th level of impurity it's when you really think about it how bad you know if they were in a 49th level of impurity which is one level away one sin away from being the worst kind 50 the unrecoverable level you know where were the ones that stayed behind so again this is shows us that part of the whole uh celebration of PES is not just a celebration obviously we have to be happy we have to get together with family it's also a time for us to celebrate Hashem giving us another chance Hashem giving us a chance to do chuva as it says in parat Bo in Exodus or seph uh chapter uh 12 verse 19 for seven days leaven may not be found in your houses for anyone who eats leavening that Soul shall be cut off from the Assembly of Israel whether a convert or a native of the land you shall not eat any leavening in all your dwellings shall you eat matot so here we see an outright verse in Exodus from Hashem telling us not only that we're obligated to eat mat but also that we're not allowed to eat and why because anyone who eats during PES is not considered Jewish whether they're a convert or they're one that were born Jewish hasem is specifically telling you it's irrelevant what does it mean whether convert a convert is considered 100% Jew why is he mentioning convert here he says because right now just people from Egypt decide to convert so they're still new and they may want to use this as an excuse no I'm new to Judaism I just did chuva I just converted no no no no my friend you know I'm telling you out right you're not allow to eat you're not allow to eat this is a you know it's not that big of a deal it's a big deal if you violate it why because it's a simple rule not to to to follow so as far as we've talked and extensively about it but just to add a couple of points about it to finish off the KET part and then we'll go over into another issue um the KET is not is not going to be allowed after the fourth hour of the day according to the sages after the fourth hour of the day on Friday uh after the fourth hour you are no longer by the fifth hour technically you are no longer allowed to sell the you must burn it so obviously everyone that has KET that they want to keep if it's closed packaging of expensive liquor uh closed packaging of expensive food that you don't want to throw out and you want to sell it to a non-jew you can do it but you must do it before that time once that time comes on Friday you are no longer allowed to sell it you must Burn It You Must Destroy it you cannot keep it in your house you not cannot keep it anywhere else You Must Destroy it it could be a million bottle of uh of whiskey you're not allowed to keep it so again make sure that you go to your local Rabbi and sell your whether you are uh at home or you're traveling you still need to sell your KET so that's something that uh we all must do um the another thing is again I mentioned earli today you have to make sure that you brush your teeth because sometimes something can get stuck there and you could have your in your mouth the whole holiday and this is a sin it's a very big sin just not worth uh uh making uh so make sure that you're not uh in any position where you have any KET in your possession not inside and not outside uh moving on into uh other other issues packaging of all Goods packaging of all food that you buy must have an obvious seal uh and obvious seal of approval that it's kosher for Passover don't take any chances on it it's not worth it no food is that good to sell yourself for it so make sure that all food that you buy is 100% kosher a Passover uh and be reminded that if you keep something that's on P without selling it and without burning it you're not allowed to use it after PES because you're not allowed to you're not even uh allowed to use and enjoy something that was forbidding a p if you didn't do this mitah of actually selling it so again if you made a mistake steak and you forgot to sell your and that was there after PES and after PES obviously is allowed but that specific K is no longer allowed so you must sell it moving on into the next thing is as far as koshering uh the pots pans utensils uh you must kosher them uh because all of these uh pots and pans and utensils absorb the non koser food for PES non koser P obviously if it's non kosher food in General then you have a bigger problem of Kash but we're talking about people that are eating obviously kosher and you have a uh non Kosher for PES food uh if the pot or pan was used purely for wet food like food that has sauces uh then it needs to go through a process called aala which is boil you know putting it through boiling water but this is not to be done by you just throwing some water on it you should take it to someone that's a professional that has a very very large pot that could literally fit any pot in it in these boiling water uh that have to have gloves and it's it's you know it's a big ordeal so it doesn't cost much but the point is that it's a uh many cases it's free but the uh the bottom line is that you have to do it you can't just do it yourself this is for any powder pen that used a uh you know wet food uh on the other hand if this uh powder pan was used in a oven or a uh a grill uh you know for and and make dry food in it then it requires libon lion Is Burning uh so you have take it usually to the same place the same Rabbi that does the aala will do the LI it will burn to make sure that all of the non kosif Passover food that was absorbed into the Potter pan or utensil was a uh is no longer in it uh again this is to the average person this seems a little bit extreme but trust me when I tell you it's a it's definitely worth it to not take the uh not to take this risk and just do it this is what Hashem commanded it's not just something that we made up recently uh so all of this should be done by a professional as far as the types of uh plates uh and uh cups and stuff that need to be cerisedolls asazi actually are on this specific issue and they actually require haal which is putting the glass if you want to use it for Passover as well as the rest of the year you have to before P you have to go to the AAL uh if it's a plastic wood bone uh or uh metal that was used only for cold food then it just needs uh you know washing okay but if it was used for hot food then hot food absorbs so for example if you ate a steak or chicken cutlet on it then you have to do the uh if you're sapharic nothing you just wash it if you're ashkanazi you have to do aala if it was a um uh you know if if you're a uh if it was just cold food like cold cuts and salads uh and things of that nature then you just need to wash it regardless of whether you're ashkanazi or spartic but always double check with your local Rabbi uh because certain communities sometimes certain things uh when it comes to porcelain clay or ceramic uh these cannot be cized uh for p as a matter of fact another k for anyone that's converting uh or anyone that's a b chuva uh that used to eat non- kosher food on it any type of non- kosher food whether it's a non kosher chicken non kosher steak or pig or camel or whatever other uh food is out there in this world if you ever ate non- kosher food on this ceramic porcelain or clay plate you are never allowed to use it again you must throw it out uh there is a p that says that it can be koshered uh from uh kosher food to PES but never from non- kosher food for kosher food to P if you go if you ever want to go through this headache you have to put it in water uh uh new water over three different over three days in a row and it's only if it was always used for cold food so this is not really relevant for most people no I don't think anybody would really need to use their plates that uh you know that ceramic you could just use glass or metal or something else but the point is the K here is that if you ever ate non- kosher food on a ceramic porcelain or clay plate it can never be cized you must throw it out uh this is the same uh uh we learned this actually from s the S the woman that was um accused of cheating on her husband she was uh going to drink this special water that had hashem's name in it the ink of's name in it uh was done in a uh this this clay cup and the reason why is because the sages teach us that just like there's no way to kosher a clay that was that has had impurity in it there's no way to kosher a a marriage that has had you know had cheating on it so if the woman cheated she would drink the water and she would die if she didn't cheat she would get a blessing and all of her sons would become big tadim and so on but the point here is that we learn that the uh the ceramic clay or porcelain cannot be koshered uh this is part of hasem this is literally in a toah as far as tables and countertops uh all you need to do is just put some uh on a table just put a cover you know just a cover for the table there's no need to do anything else table Toops and uh counters just put hot water you know wash it with really really hot water and that's enough to uh to do it because generally people don't eat off of the counter or or tabletop uh but just hot water is enough uh also because the tabletops and counters generally don't absorb the uh the food uh to uh to finalize in the last couple of things uh you have on Shabbat no uh no form of work whatsoever is allowed to be done starting the afternoon meaning that you're not allowed to finish work an hour before P you must finish work before the afternoon uh anything and at that point you're no longer allowed to do any me that is not related to PES so yes you are allowed to drive but you're only allowed to drive to the store to to buy things for PES you're not allowed to go to Home Depot and buy things to fix your house next week uh you're not allowed to go to a customer once the afternoon starts on Friday that's it the holiday in essence for you begins you're only allowed to do you're only allowed to do things that are relevant to P this is the source for this is in the the oral T page 50b anyone who does a nonrelevant on the afternoon of P Eve will never see blessing from it and will'll lose it in a strange way this is what the Tora says this is in page 50b so again even if you close a deal that's $50 million on you know at 3:00 in the afternoon on PES Eve you could rest assure that there's going to be no blessing from it so might as well just delay it till after PES don't worry Hashem is in control you're not going to lose the deal also next thing is there's no eating of matah on the uh that uh afternoon of PES there's no eating of matah you're not allow to eat you know matah during the day of P so Friday no mat whatsoever until the S so even though you're not allowed to eat anymore you're also not allowed to eat matah you're allowed to eat everything else chicken uh steak meat potatoes everything else but specifically matah you're only allowed to start eating matah on the SED this during the Seder that's when you're allowed to start eating it uh only time you're allowed to eat matah is if the matah was fried or cooked meaning if you're putting it if you know how to do it where you throw it into your omelette which is very very tasty you put some matah in a bunch of different uh sauces or or um different ingredients in it and it's part of the uh part of the meal that's fine but it's being cooked but matah by itself matah with chocolate matah with jelly mat you know that is not allowed until the sedo um also you're not allowed to eat a big meal or anything that's mesot any cakes or cookies 3 hours before nightfall which is generally Nightfall is when we have the prayer and then we have the Seder so you're not allowed to have a big meal you're allowed to eat small meals but nothing that's Mees not no cake or cookies uh or anything that's been baked but uh why because you're supposed to arrive to the Stater hungry uh this is very very important cuz again the mat you eat on the Seder is uh you have to eat a lot of matah so you have to eat 30 gram of of matah uh and uh four times and uh 30 gram of olive size um 30 grams of mar so this is a lot of food by the way especially if you don't have if you have just the traditional matah the mat that's a square matah that's a lot of matah so in order to eat all of that mat and and fulfill that Mitzvah you have to eat a lot of matah um the uh also there's AAG that the first born fast on Friday on the day of of P Eve fast all the way until the Seder uh the way that uh they fulfill this Mitzvah without fasting is by listening by going to a s going to a meal of a mitvah it's either a meal of when someone finishes a part of the completes a a track date of the gar or a goes to a uh meal of a Brit or any type of meal like a wedding on that Friday which generally the only things that are done on Friday on P Eve are usually because no one wants to fast so ask your local synagogue if someone is finishing a track date of the because if you're firstborn you'd have to fast that day or at least that's the M you're not obligated but it's generally a thanks to Hashem for not killing the firstborn Jews at the time of the uh of of of this holiday uh man men must also uh attend this uh this uh meal uh that they're having for this but women should attend it if they're POS if it's possible but there's more leniency from the sages on women because women generally have to prepare for the meal so if it's not possible for them the husband would usually go bring them part of the meal home and they could eat it at home but generally it's better if the women actually go doesn't take very much time uh a person shopping for meat uh for uh you know that's shopping for meat for the holiday cannot say again cannot say that this meat that he's buying is for PES why because it sounds according to the sages it sounds like he's saying that he's preparing aan preparing a sacrifice which is not permitted since we do not have the bet mikdash this is also the root of why we're not allowed to have the lamb shank the Z that many spartic have unfortunately I mean until this day where they eat a they eat a lme shank on P Eve this is not allowed because it's a in essence a form of a Corban a form of a of a offering a resemblance to it so this is not allowed uh you're allowed to eat it on the the afternoon but you're not allowed to eat it during the Eve so if you're buying meat in general enjoy your meat but do not save this me is for p um uh the uh last couple of things to finish off you uh before PES before the Seder everyone has to go to beet pray a nice prayer of Alit which is a c celebratory prayer it's a very nice prayer uh it's different than the traditional prayers we have during the week uh especially that since it's Friday which is you know Shabbat as well as um P so this is is a opportunity for you to get closer and closer to Hashem before you even get home uh prepare one of the things that a lot of people do during P afternoon is prepare the olive size matah which is supposed to be 30 gram but four pieces four times because you have to eat four uh uh times 30 gram throughout the evening and also two U Mar uh that's 30 grams each so usually most people to make sure that they fulfill the Mitzvah in a precise way they spend the afternoon cutting pieces to make sure and weighing it to make sure that it's 30 gr exactly and they're fulfilling the Mitzvah so everyone during the Sedar gets the uh you know gets their portion so throughout the night they're eating exactly what needs to be eaten um this is a big Mitzvah and the biggest part of the Mitzvah as we mentioned earlier today is that you have to tell the story of The Exodus to the kids to the wife to yourself to your guests your kids come first your wife after obviously and then your guest do not focus on your guest only you have to focus on your own family uh first the starts at home first not with the neighbors and the people you see once every three years so make sure that you have studied everything you can about the story of Exodus as I said you should learn from the shirim we've made the shim the RAB mrai made sh rabim klon made about the parot uh that we made par um all of the par that actually have to do with with this holiday schot which is the first book of Exodus uh then you have V uh then you have parad you know these These are the specifically those three are the ones that have to do with this uh this um um holiday lot of Miracles a lot of wonderful things lot of Amazing Stories we spent a lot of time studying to make sure that we bring you new so go and watch the it's a few hour for a lifetime of reward because if you give your family your kids your wife and your husbands your friends a good PES full of stories they'll remember that PES forever P with just Food they'll forget you two days later and maybe even complain so remember this is for hem and it's not only for Hashem that because hm needs it it's because we need it so everyone has a kosher p an amazing PES and remembers that the whole purpose of PES is to remember why we were even saved in the first place if we're giving hem a reason if we gave him a reason back then we need to give him a reason now soem each one of us gives him a reason on PES and every day after to continue saving us to continue giving us Miracles and to continue fulfilling all of the promise he made to Abraham and yob