Four Tips for Managing Pesach Prep in the Uncertainty of Covid-19

hello the purpose of this shear of this gap together now for the next hopefully about 20 minutes is to try to give a brief overview of how manageable pace up preparation really is this year especially but with this great uncertainty surrounding code at nineteen many people who haven't been planning to make pace up find themselves very close to pace up having a need to now make picture and it can be overwhelming especially because there's this mystique or I should say this cloud that surrounds pace up if you can't possibly make pace up unless you start appearing somewhere between Canada and to be sure that's not the case and we have a couple of weeks to pacer and we're going to be just fine so I want to just share with you four principles to think about as you make pace F for pace up preparation principles that can make all the difference in how this preparation process goes and will make you realize how manageable prepare for paisa in the amount of time that we have ahead of us first there's a rule which is taught and that is that Multan Shaima peaceable comments inside of the beaker we talked about preparing the house for basis and much of our discussion I'm not going to be speaking to you tonight about the specific preparations of the kitchen I'm talking about preparing the house for Pesach primarily and a little bit about the preparation of the kitchen welcome Shane McPhee simple common things are could be a place where comments is not introduced of not required checking the sauce now what is a place where comments is introduced there could be many many areas in the house what commentaries in houses with young children especially there places where all kinds of places what summits might be introduced but there has to be a reality to the chance that Clements is introduced there the reality is something of a meaningful possibility so for example in Laguna it speaks about when a person has a wine cellar that they go to and it's the kind of wine cellar that would go to in the middle of the meal holding a piece of bread to replenish to get another bottle of wine that's a place which requires Beneatha to see if there's no bread there however there are areas where you never would go with the piece of bread so there could be a wine cellar that you don't go to in the middle of a meal or you may know that your habit would never be to go downstairs or to go to that part with a piece of bread so the classic places where we have to think about this are the rules of the house other than the kitchen and specifically people dead lose their closets their doors their arm lies in that image of Pesach the impossible cases one has to go through everything but in truth there are large parts of our homes where they are simply places where comments would really never be introduced a clothing closet an armoire her dresser this is just food ever go there do we have up the food in those places now it is true you may have once tucked an energy bar into your jacket pocket or into a pants pocket or something like that and it could be there and I love a is you should go check those pockets you check pockets of clothing where food might have been placed so person might know that sometimes they place it in there jacket sometimes they place food in this kind of pocket they may know that they never place food in their shirt pocket or their blast pocket or something like that so they wouldn't have to check there and just because they might have some summits in the pocket of one of their jackets it doesn't mean that they have to check the entire closet in which that jacket jacket is found because if they know that as their shelves sweaters or areas where shirts are hanging some it just doesn't go there and if they're not someone who will go into the closet while eating breakfast and holding something and eating so then that may simply be a place shame my fleece and all comments what feminism isn't entering isn't introduced that's certainly true of the drawers so that's principle number one identify the many many areas in your house and the rooms around your house which are simply places that comments is not introduced and those places do not require the dicus comments you don't have to check for comments there and therefore you don't have to clean for comments there that's principle number one which eliminates a whole bunch of the cleaning items from your list principle number two in Halawa it doesn't really speak about cleaning for Pesach it speaks about checking for fronts for basic there's no real hellephant to clean the luffa is to inspect to make sure that summons isn't there so let's look at the rest of that long that bedroom where comments might sometimes be introduced because maybe you lie in your bed and you have a midnight snack maybe you have breakfast in bed one day you weren't feeling so good so you ate no some toast empty in your bed so it's a place truly where comedy is introduced and you have to check to make sure the comments isn't there but checking to make sure that hummus isn't there does not necessarily mean at all that you have to take apart the bed and the boxspring move it out but you have to shampoo the carpets but you have to do is you have to inspect you have to look to see if there's comments there where could there be comments where might the summit's have fallen it could have fallen something behind the bed so you get them home and you look with a flashlight and you see is there anything under there is there any summits they're not dust but comments so here again this is a second critical principle you don't have to clean you have to inspect if you have for example ways that a child uses so the child perhaps eats could eat while using the toys those toys don't have to be washed and bleached oh it's true many people do that many people do that in normal years they'll take the time to do that whether it's necessary or not whether it's advised or not but perhaps that's one of the expressions of the rush to Miami fear of have an intro parents at pacer but this place up especially for those who are either making Pesach when they do plan to for making Pesach there's a lot more stress and maybe a lot more people under flipped and so on and so forth than they plan to it is very important that we do what we have to not that we necessarily go above and beyond and so if you want to check those games yeah so you make an activity you sit down we choose the games you're gonna be using on Pesach and you take a look at them you look and see is there any are there any crushed cupcakes in in these pieces of Lego I don't see any it's good it's fine it's now okay for Pesach the areas again around the place they don't necessarily have to be washed at the bottom our dining room chairs don't have to be blow-torched but rather all we have to do to look we have to look in the cracks look in the crevices see that there's nothing there if there's nothing there then in insert there's no need for anything more there's no I love cleaning there's our love of checking there's all the stuff check so again other times over years more time we might do more things but let's talk about what's required so in principle number one their entire arenas cabinets filing cabinets who knows what areas of the house which are places what comments simply isn't introduced those places do not need to be checked or cleaned for Pesach even areas where hummus is introduced aside from a kitchen where there's a whole different set of policies but areas even where comments is introduced could have been introduced we have to inspect them to make sure that there's no comments there there's no I love massively cleaning them just checking and working carefully following this formula I think you understand that checking any bedroom in the house could probably be done preparing any bedroom and astral pacer could probably be done in five minutes perhaps 10 what would you have to do all you'd have to do is sleep we're in this room we would actually have wrapped food and that would probably narrow it down to a couple of spots so maybe have some pockets in the closet to look at maybe you have a drawer where you might have stored something and the area around your bed where you might have eats in or areas like that where you might have carried food and then you just take a quick look you inspect you see you check with the flashlight and you'll see and then that area is done you might find some items maybe a perfume or something that you want to put away where you sell the foments okay that would be another thing to put on the checks but between those two principles a great deal is resolved and makes things much much easier you don't have to check a place what summons isn't introduced and you don't have to clean you just have to check principle number three or actually this is not so much in principle but rather a method a method of reducing the obligation this is one which is used and must be used in one's kitchen but who used all over the house we do something called the sale of clumps and the sale of clements is something which will be done this year as well although will be done a little bit differently since it can't be done in person the rabbi's are expecting accepting being pointed to the issue yeah to be an agent to sell the comments by email or by telephone by different methods and then they sell the phones when they stop us um it's not only do they sell the actual clements items but they'll also sell the areas where that Clements is Kent and they can also include other areas where there may not be jars of of flour noodles or whatever it is that one wants the sillas Clements pajara little cabinets full of dishes of pots and pans that really according to the strict cutoff that you kept them you'd have to check them to make sure there was no real comments there but here you can do is close the cabinet put the tape across the cabinet include that cabinet in the sale you don't have to check anything in there just whatever is behind these doors is going to be sold or in the case of dishes many rabbis like myself will just rent the dishes so that there's no question of having to total those dishes went being it back so close the cabinet and we don't have to go there so there might be places where comets might go so here let's take choosing example your children have many many toys and toy classes you want to go through that whole thing for pace up but they need toys so we sit down with them and we say okay choose five games five toys that we want to have out for Pesach you choose those games and toys you sit on the floor you have a 20-minute activity where you look through them and you see that there's no stomach room they're fantastic these are the toys that are at the base on the rest of the toy closet tape across it close it included in the sale of comics you don't have to look to see if anything's there it'll be included in the sale of hummus that room where you have boxes of things we say oh we move three years ago but I never check to make sure that there was never anything there there may be other reasons why you probably don't have to check for comments there but even if you think it's a place where Thomas woods introduced but it's the rule or an area or a closet or a quarter of room but you don't have to use close it up great something go over it included in the sale of comments and you will have saved yourself that space this is an idea which enters your kitchen as well as we mentioned before shoes you didn't prepare for Pesach take out what you'll be able to use you're gonna have your ear ear areas where you gonna keep your disposable plates but you can keep your a few pace on pots the other basic items close up everything else you don't have to move stuff to the basement you don't have to move stuff to the Attic just as much as possible just close the stuff in place clear for yourself surfaces or or one cabinet or two where you can put the stuff or leave the things that you're going to have this will be ready for pace up and everything else just close up in place included in the Salem promise that's a third piece number one you don't have to check places what summits doesn't go number two you don't have to clean those areas general you just have to inspect them to make sure there's no comments there number three closed off areas that you normally need that you're not going to use we have been cleaning them rather than moving things around just close out the areas to keep them in the sale upon us and you begin the bulk the fact far the bulk of your house is done put away readied for the pace up in a very very short amount of time now as we said before the one caveat on this is that when you're talking about kitchen appliances kitchen counters kitchen sinks areas which are going to be used with food they're much more attention is needed and they're a kashering process as described in the many resources which are available need to be used need to be invoked but so many of these areas can be removed I would also note because many people ask this question it's that was the hugger the custom many many many great people not to check all their books for summits you should look over the bookshelf to make sure that nobody stuck anything there but you don't have to go through the books page by page books which are brought to the table during the year and are brought to the table on a stuff that's an issue those should be gone to more carefully less crumbs that are of any kind of meaning far lamps they should be gone through more carefully but books which aren't brought to the table now hugger the custom of many great good all you saw was not to check through them so those are three principles what's the fourth principle the fourth principle is the principle of some custom tip of the joy of the empathy the joy of Pesach which is supposed to be central to them to the Upton's of a holiday the joy of SF which creates the warm feelings that surround the attitude in beginning over to our children the warmth of pace after good feeling we should surround our pace of operations that's something which is critical and essential to the process and creating a sense of there's so much that we have to do when there really isn't so much it brings to us attention I would like to suggest everyone every year but especially this year that if there's one thing that we want to have lemma hydron in the greatest and most beautiful and plentiful measure it is the joy of youngters it's a time when we need it and we're able to relax and understand how attainable preparing for you up to this when we're able to relax and understand it everyone's gonna be fine without all the different varieties of things that we have in other years but we can put aside the stress of having to make a meal fit for a king for who knows how many guests but instead make for ourselves the beautiful regular sort of like a piece of Liga schepis that'll be our Seder that'll be our family time that'll be memorable and joyous always keep our eyes on the prize to have peace and joy in our homes may indeed through this period this period of challenge and difficulty may we be able to maintain that joy by doing what we need to do what we need to them not more not more just what we need to do pressure is on there I hope this is somewhat helpful and I hope it helps all of us so the bestest I shouldn't be able to celebrate truly joyous healthy strong yell to the besa coming thank you