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Do you need to use a feather and spoon for bedikat chametz?
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Why do we use a spoon and feather for bedikat chametz if it’s not halachically required? Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, our Managing Director of Communal Engagement, explains the true reason behind this minhag.
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It is true that you're not required
halachically to use a spoon [music]
or a feather for the experience of the
Vedas comments, although it does provide
[music]
for additional opportunities to get
everyone involved. But the reason these
items are used is to take the search
seriously.
>> [music]
>> A feather is light, it could scrape
crumbs, and it could also be done
slowly, [music] deliberately,
intentionally. The point is that we're
not just chaotically walking through our
homes looking for things and picking
things up. This is not just cleaning
[music] the house. We are on a search.
That search has meaning. That search has
purpose, and that search brings us to
the experience [music] of Pesach where
our larger search to experience the
overt hand of a kosher who in our lives
is part of the overall experience.