Laws (Halachot) of Pesach - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] we're very close to p and we're just going to learn a little bit of a for the month and for p just to remind you of a few things that we learned last week that are important to remember and to do if you didn't do one of them is that the whole month of Nissan we do not say ton or VD confession uh if you didn't see B not yet then you have to find the trees to make the blessing on the trees uh excuse me better to do it now but if not you can do it to to pes's the braa is long you're going to need to take with you a s uh I'm not too sure but if you have a smartphone you can uh you can Google it cuz it's a long it's it's after you say the I mean that's not something you can remember remember better to go H with something ready with a Sido I don't I don't know any your s if you have it but um you need to find we talked about it last week we need to find two trees that they bear fruit so I forgot the lady's name that was here last week she placed a message on the group that she has two trees in her backyard and anybody Kuma and anybody can go to her her house so try to do that another thing is what's called everybody has to give a little bit of charity for communal account that helps poor people get their food it's not a suggestion it's everybody has to do it even if it's five shekels but you have to participate even if you have financial problems you also have to participate in that even if it's something very very small can I give to you you can give to me because we feed a lot of poor people but don't do it now we'll do it after the class this coming Shabbat is Shabbat I'm just going to recap a little bit what we learned last year this Shabbat this coming Shabbat is Shabbat a uh you can go to watch the video to see all the rules that have to do with Shabbat but just remember it's the last Shabbat before P after we read a portion of the ha and uh it's important to know what it means you can definitely look at the video that we posted last week so now we're going to continue things that we need to do on Sunday I mean this year it's going to be Sunday somebody might be watching the video next year and it's not going to be Sunday this year it's Sunday that we have to burn the kets we have to check the kets and we have to burn it so first of all it means that I have to clean the house foretz we're not going to go through that but needless to say the whole house needs to be cleaned and if if it's your home there's no question here everything has to be cleaned if for whatever reason it's a big home or some of the rooms are not going to be used you can gather all the stuff you don't want to clean into one room close the room and sell the kets we're going to learn today what it means to sell the kets but if it's your house and you fully live in it then you have to clean the entire house if it's not your house which is very important then you clean your area many people they live in room with roommates or temporary housing or any other type of of situation that would make the house not theirs then you clean you have to clean your area whether it's just your room or if you have a little piece of a living room uh if you share you have to clean at least the hallway where you going to walk through basically wherever you're going to be in PES you have to clean for yourself so you'll clean from the door till your room in your room if there's a bathroom you clean in the bathroom believe it or not some people do bring bring food into the bathroom and sometimes not only that there will be crumbs on the floor that will be pushed into the bathroom so you want to do a clean in the bathroom if you share a kitchen that's where it becomes a little bit more challenging but to make a long story short because it depends there's many different types of Partnerships in an apartment sometimes you're roommate sometimes you're guest sometimes you're just renting a room so the rule to to remember is you clean your part and uh and of course way you're going to pass backwards and forth and the rest is not your area you don't have to clean it of course it would be optimal if it would be clean but since it's not yours and you don't own it then you don't have any obligation to clean something that doesn't belong to you itless to say after we do the then whatever is there it's not yours and we're going to go through the rules of Thea of the burning of the selling the cuz that we're going to do this Sunday which means it's till Sunday everything has to be cleaned Sunday evening when the Sun goes down so we still have a little bit less than a week and the we do on this coming Sunday after the star go stars go out the night before which means the 13th day of Nissan we must check the I mean have to check that there isn't any and it has to be done right after the stars go out you want to prevent from eating uh drinking working or even learning Tor the second the Sun the stars go out you start it's even better not to do all these actions that I said learning eating working half an hour before the stars go out so you're not going to forget doing the Bika I know in in our generation most people comes the stars go go out they're not even close to doing Thea that's when all the pressure starts so it's best I know every year you say say okay next year everything will be ready and this year I'm starting right after the stars go out try to do it there's a mystical reason why we do it right when the stars go out and it has like the the major rule of Shabbat it doesn't matter when Shabbat comes in you you always come two minutes before Shabbat doesn't matter if Shabbat comes in at 4: at 7 you always ready a minute before the same thing with the checking the try to make sure that your everything is checked and ready and the stars go out you're ready to do it and half an hour before that you're already stop from working eating learning to and you get ready if you already started to learn you started to eat you started to do something comes the time best to stop if you are busy with whatever you're doing learning or still cleaning you have to make sure that somebody will remind you a roommate a friend a husband tells you okay it's time to clean let's let's start it's important to start on time and I'll tell you in a second why uh if you're a man best to pray right as the stars go out it's good to do it right away so you can go right away home to check the ketz and even if you're not a man it's good to pray that that night before you're checking the Sunday night Sunday night before before the stars come out you get ready start come out you pray and you start cleaning start checking now one of the many reasons why we check right when the sun stars go out because as the stars come down the night starts falling we don't see it with our eyes but till midnight it becomes darker and darker and darker we just don't see it with our eyes it starts becoming dark the the border the line when night starts is when the stars go out that's when it's dark enough to see the stars a minute before the stars go out it's there's still a little bit of light so since there's a little bit of light you don't see all the stars it's not because the Stars suddenly appear it's just that still the sun is not 100% passing the line then since it didn't pass the line 100% there's still a little bit of light in the sky so you can can only see two or three stars that are very bright once the sun is completely be after the line then suddenly within a couple minutes you see a bunch of stars so in the spiritual level there are two major midot that control the world rule the world during the day is the mid of and during the night is the mid of Judgment of of severity as the sun goes down the starts diminishing in that borderline when the stars go out this is when the the severity starts coming into changing of the guards changing of the shift so as close as you can to the T Kim the severity the den are not that strong the more you go into to the night the Mida the judgments are becoming much much stronger therefore you want to make sure that you're checking the K as close as possible to till the stars go out why not to Shalom fall under more severe judgments on that night now checking of theet is not necessarily finding the crumb we do the physical ritual but there's a spiritual aspect to it and the spiritual aspect to it is that that's when I need to clean theet out of my domain we're going to go through it later that we clean with a candle there the reason why we do a candle if you notice from previous years we clean with a feather and we have to spread some pieces of KET around so we can find them there's a whole mystical reason why we do the whole thing so you want to do it if we have time we'll get to it today why we do the Feather why we do the candle why we do even the the dear with a candle I mean a candle is a little bit of light turn the lights on you'll see 10 times better so there's a mystical part why we do it like that so it's better to do it when the stars go out because the the intensity of the Mida is not that strong and when you clean your physically it's when you clean the K spiritually from your and you do not need more severity or more judgments shining on you the judgments don't shine on you but they they so to say shine on you you want to do it as close as possible to when the stars go out and there's many more reasons but we'll get to that later now where where do you check the any place that you think that even by mistake went in there you have to check there even if it's a laundry room that you're saying laundry room who eats in the laundry room but sometimes it can be crumbs in the pockets of the the the pants the shirt whatever it is and as you taking everything and ready get out of the laundry basket and putting anything into the to the washing machine could be some crumbs fing over there so even a place that you think why would somebody go there with kmets a little storage or sometimes under the stairs if you have two floors under the stairs it's used for like a storage area which again sometimes people will say oh nobody goes there so what's the point of checking so you want to check any possible place where K might be you want to make sure of course nless to say before that you clean it and then to check it why because there is always the option of a little bit of it's coming there now go every room that you have to check before you check of course you want to make sure that it's clean you want to make sure that it's organized and it's it's it's not a mess that it will be easier sometimes rooms are messy like a storage room or or a side room you have to check all the rooms even in places like under the bed under a counter behind a closet sometimes you people do okay I don't really live in this room and they do it real real quick you want to make sure that you do do it very thorough and better to do it couple days before it's also very important to check important to clean in in little cracks between things in holes underneath placees that normally your hand even can barely get there but you don't need to go fanatic on places where your hand cannot reach if your hand cannot reach you don't have to to start burning the house down yesterday the the that's what sometimes people do yesterday we had a help in cleaning the kitchen so in our freezer there's a place that has a little bit of like I don't know like these holes I don't know if it's done for ventilation I don't know why it's done but it's not a place that you can pick up clean close close down there's a there was like a little panel and holes and I saw the cleaning lady there for for 2 hours and I was like why why why is it taking you so long she said look how much KET were need and when I looked I first of all it's ice cream it doesn't look like KET but she was like no look inside there's there's there's crumbs in there there was no other option of even opening it sometimes there's a panel you can take out clean and put put in but for whatever reason in this type of freezer there was the the there was like a hole that first of all the holes were very very small with a toothpick she was able to scrape in but you could see in and it was like maybe an inch going down and you saw dirt in there there's no way to get it there's really no way to get it unless you sit there for for weeks with a 500 horsepower ER vacuum cleaner to somehow get it out from there I don't even know how you can get it out really you can't get it out she was going in with a toothbrush and toothpicks and and at some point I told her listen do a Thor clean and we'll just cover it that's it you you can't do it there's no point to go too crazy over something like that cuz you'll never get it out the reason why I say burning the house cuz some people take a blow torch and they'll start burning it from above because once you burn theet you can't eat it you can't have any benefit from it it's not kit anymore so one time I did that many years ago when I thought that you have to go fanatic and I started burning things and I was like okay this is not a good solution I'm starting to burn down the house so this is where the the line of insanity starts and where you don't need to be insane so you cover it you cover it with hard foil you seal it and as long as you don't see it as long as you don't have access to it and when you sell the KET you remember there's a place in the freezer that I couldn't clean so sometimes there places that that you can reach doesn't matter what you're going to do so this is the line where you don't go crazy you need to clean you need to scrub you need to to to scrape but when it comes to a point that your hand can't reach in it then it's enough you don't you don't this is where you stop and it's enough to be to to to do what's called the Bol is to say okay this is this is why I I can't get rid of it anymore you want to ask something so you want to may maybe borrow a vacuum cleaner if you want we have an old one it's not that great but you can take it but it's a little bit broken but you want to borrow excuse me it will suck it's not a it's not a 500 horsepower vacuum cleaner it will suck a big dirt it's not going to it's not so great but you yeah you want to be borrow a vacuum cleaner and make sure that uh you do at least a good thorough uh vacuuming cuz the vacuum is is a very good solution cuz it does suck from all directions and the ones the vacuum cleaners that are not so strong then what you do is you cover the the area from air and then it makes like a suction and then even if the vacuum cleaner is not so strong it will still suck it you know how you put your hand on the on the on the hose Suddenly It's suck it sucks it much stronger because there's no flow of air so if you if you can't get into these places sometimes you have an extension that narrows down the hole so if you don't have that then you create something you become Aver and you and uh okay that's a joke for the old older people the younger people are like what who so not too long ago I was in in a lecture I mentioned that and some people smiled and the rest were looking and we like what is it what's that word so I said okay that's for the older crowd what was the word mcgyver mcgyver was 30 years ago was a show of this guy that mver MacGyver that used to get into situations and he would take a bobby pin and a shoelace and suddenly make a nuclear bomb so that was the the joke growing up so you become in cleaning in the PES cleaning mcgyver and you find how to make sure to suck the the crumbs but again where wherever your hand physically cannot go in that's where you stop becoming insane now again putting your hand underneath a a cabinet that's that's normal you put the Hol in of the of the vacuum cleaner but when it becomes cracks sometimes there is cracks in the windows in the in the window seal wherever you can go in I mean you do your best you vacuum sometimes I know people will uh pour uh certain acid or bleach to melt everything that's it and then you don't you don't have to go crazy and as somebody once told me we have very high bookshelves and uh I mean you want to clean for dust but once my wife was climbing up I told her nobody's eating on the top of the bookshelf nobody's throwing like that bread uh during the week that there'll be a crumb there and we do not have birds flying around here that will might drop a crumb so the seventh level of the bookshelf that you cleaning for dust you don't clean for kets so it's important not to go too crazy over the cleaning I told you already in one of the previous classes last week that if you already have so much free time to go crazy go crazy on learning and working on yourself how to clean the the H within you rather than going with toothpicks and scraping H uh cracks in the floor I mean the cleaning has to be good but not some people they really really lose their mind it's important to scrub anything that KET touched it so if you have a countertop a tblop anything that you know that KET touched it you want to scrub it because sometimes if you look at this table for example you see there's a a line around if you just wipe it with a with a rag it's not enough you you can see this is a perfect example on this table how it has like this uh line around that's something you want to maybe take a toothpick or a knife or fork and go like that especially a table you ate on it this is not so much a table that you eat on it I mean actually yeah people put their cookies on it and their coffee this is where you want what you want to scrub you go one time this is what's called a crack or or I'm sure there's a word for this in English to this to this H this is something you want to H scrape the joint excuse me the joint I don't know I mean but you see like there's in the wood there's like a little line this if you just white this is not good enough here you want to take either a fork that is something metal I mean you don't want to scratch it you have to also work with your with common sense but that's something you want to scrap sometimes in the in the countertops in the kitchen the the the end the edge is like that and and you just clean off the dirt sometimes the edge is a little bit elevated and in that crack that's where you want to clean so anywhere that KET was sitting on which is usually in most cases will be countertops tables table Toops anywhere that you'll put theet that's where you want to scrape Corners if now let's say there are places especially on countertops that are made from Marble you can get it's because they to they put two marbles together I means nowadays it's a little bit more with with technology when the edge of the tabletop the C top goes a little bit up they make it one piece in the older versions they take one piece another piece and they glue it and then a lot ofets get stuck inside if you see that after you scraped it and you cleaned it it doesn't come out that's where you either Bo pour boiling hot water or you take a blow torch and very quickly you go on the on the on the panel cuz it will burn everything in it another solution is sometimes what people do is they'll they'll take a glue of what's called silicone and just do another layer and then you completely cover it so this this is where you want to go a little bit more extreme because there you know there's humet on your table on your countertop in your kitchen that that's 99.9% is humet there so that's where you want to go a little bit too much now if you don't have all these tools all these options also boiling hot water does the job and but boiling boiling hot Waters anyways you want to cusher the counters and cover them so you're going to pour boiling hot water so you do want to go here a little bit extra another important thing is it's important also to check your pockets now a lot of people what they do is they just wash everything but you can start washing your entire house especially that most people they have summer clothes winter clothes so it's important to to check Pockets you know put your hand in empty put it inside out shake it especially the things that you know because that you were carrying kin a lot of people put their food in their pockets especially kids so sometimes even when you wash it it doesn't even clean it so you do want to go through uh coats and stuff like that they will have pockets that's the advantage of being a woman dresses don't have pockets so there's nothing to put there now that's of course important to to do before you do the not the night of P when it's cold and you put a jacket on and then you put your hand in you're like uh oh I think I just touched a cracker so you want to do that uh before the checking now same thing with the shoes uh yeshivas places that you study that's also a place you need to check that's why this Friday we're not having here a meal because the C place is already going to be clean for p and we can't have uh we don't not going to have enough time Sunday to clean an entire building so I know a few people already asked us this shabas we are not having a meal so the best way to do most houses should be and hopefully are already Cure by Friday some houses not some houses Sunday is still the day of cleaning but if you already clean the house and Friday is already Kosher for PES the best way to do is when you make your shabas meal is that you cover the table with a plastic a big plastic and you eat h a p bread P they usually their Crumbs are very big it's not like these little kalas that spreads all over the place as you buy either these H whole wheat rolls that they barely have crumbs or or P Breads and of course you eat a little bit over the plastic when you have a beard you go like that and and you eat very careful and right away you turn pick up the plastic tie it up and throw it you want to do that because it's still Shabbat and even though it's clean for PES you don't want to take away from the Mitzvah of Shabbat what we do if you have the option is we eat on the P we do what I just said but on the porch so on Shabbat we eat on our porch because the house is we're already eating now on the porch now every everything that is the kids know they go on the porch the porch is not clean Sunday we clean the porch and there's wind and there's cats and there's birds so better to eat a p bread or a whole wheat roll something that doesn't H crumb too much and not to do the I mean if if there's no other choice than you do like what you said you eat some dates and you drink a cup of wine but still it's Shabbat you don't want to take away from this Holiness and the Mitzvah of Shabbat then you go a little bit extreme you'll eat over a plastic bag put it even if you don't have these big Plastics tablecloths put a plastic bag eat over it real careful from bread that you that you know will not uh make crumbs and then at least you did the Mitzvah of shabas the right way it's not good to take away from the Mitzvah of Shabbat because the the next day is PES now uh you want to make sure that not only that also the food that you make now the thing is that a lot of the times the oven is already ready for PES so if you're already cooking something make sure it's in a in a disposable tin or something that is already belongs to PES you have to be careful how you're eating on Friday but I know what a lot of people do is they're like okay I'm not going to do anything or like you said I'll find all the options of not making a suda don't take away from the Holiness of Shabbat so find a way I know a lot of times what people do is they'll two three families they'll they'll merge together and they say let's all e together in the same place and we'll all pitch into the to the cleaning if you have a porch if you have a backyard whatever it is that's also a good option eating outside but the the important thing to take from that is not to take away from the Mitzvah of Shabbat that's the most important thing but if there's no other way you can do the wine and the dates and and you'll be good with that okay now finally we came to Sunday evening and it's time to do the it's important that right before the any that you have you put away in one place now there's a few opinions one opinions will say it's fine take all your comets put it in the closet close the closet it put a sticker that it's and after that you sell that there are more strict opinions that they suggest don't even keep the kets at home so your plates your utensils that has the taste of kets of course that you keep but if you have an open box of crackers Just Give It Away eat it throw don't throw it you can't throw food but make sure you don't keep kets in the house if you have sealed bags of flour fine but anything that is open better some opinions especially the rabbi ofat he says don't keep at home don't keep it at all at home that's a more strict opinion any KET that you have you gather it all together put it in a closet close it doesn't have to be one closet can be 50 closets you just have to mark it where theet is but you have to separate the KET and the rest of the stuff no there's a custom that we take 10 pieces of and we spread them around the house this is usually done let's say the wife if the husband is doing Thea the checking the wife will do that and today today everybody have a very easy life today you can buy a kit that has already these H pieces already ready and they're sealed so if you don't have the option of buying that fancy kit and you take a little bit from the P bread that you had for Shabbat it is already hard anyways wrap it a little bit with foil like like this make little Hershey's out of it you know they put a little piece wrap it with foil and you sprit around the house 10 pieces and if you by yourself then you do it yourself if not the best if the wife will do that don't let the kids do that because they they they'll hide it in Places You'll Never Find and you know there's also the chance that they they're going to mess it up and Crumbs are going to be everywhere but if if it's possible let the wife hide it in normal places then the husband will in the will need to find it again you want to make sure you put it in a foil or some way that it's not going to start spreading around then you want to check with a candle a candle of wax and not like the type of havdala that has a few Flames that has one Wick and also you want to take a feather that belongs to any type of bird better a chicken and uh you check it with a single candle single wiek candle and a feather and you start checking the humet to the light of the candle all the light lights have to be down and off and you want to check one hand the candle one check hand the feather and you start looking for the kets and you have to find these 10 pieces of kets not AAL candle you said no no can do from aala candle you need one one wiek not a library a lighter no has to be a candle that's made out of wax okay today I said today our life is very easy they sell you this kit and in the kit will be the wax candle the feather the spoon the 10 pieces the braa the whole thing I don't a spoon and a feather I didn't see you didn't see the food the just spoon in the feather but ah you mean the kit with the 10 pieces no no the kit I got just has a spoon in the feather no candle so look for the ones that has a candle cuz it's important it will be a wax you can go with a lighter or a flashlight there's mystical reasons maybe what we can do is not today maybe Thursday we'll learn a little bit more mystical why we do that but it's important you do the Feather you do the spoon you do the candle with the wax and you find these 10 pieces in general just that you H feed the Curiosity I don't want to stop for that the reason first of all why we we we search with the light because the candle light that is considered light I mean we could don't consider the the electricity light now really when you clean the kets I already scrubbed the floor there's not KET there but I want to clean the the humet that is in me my ego my my my bad character traits the junk that is in me my anger my my frustration mainly the ego mainly the K represents my ego my yes my selfness and the only way which is the dark side in me it's not coming from my soul my soul is a is a pillar of light it says the candle of hem is the soul of a person so our soul is compared to fire to light so anything that is opposite of Holiness is darkness and the only way to beat the darkness is with light so we turn all the lights down and we wait for the stars to come out that it's 100% darkness and I use a single Wick candle corresponding to my my soul is called a candle a verse by King Solomon the candle of is the S of the person so I want to do it only with a candle and a single week candle not two weeks not three weeks like the havala candles that candle is me I'm coming to to light the darkness in the light of the Dark of the candle you can only win the darkness with light and you don't need a big uh projector you don't need a lot of light you need a little bit of light from the candle that overpowers the darkness now if you look if you turn out the light very very strong I can guarantee to you that it will be a little bit of crumbs on the floor you're not going to see it the daylight is way too strong the lights on the ceiling are way too strong turn the whole lights off here and come with a candle you'll see the crumb you'll see a little bit of crumb why because the the dark is so thick it doesn't allow you to see anything a little bit of light from the candle already creates the type of light that you see little things more than that that when I come to clean myself I don't need a lot of light I just need a little bit of a little bit of light if I have a lot of problems in me I have anger I have frustration I have the sadness I have an ego I have whatever it is that I need to clean in me I just need a little bit of just to ignite a little bit the and that already will point out to me what I need to clean the 10 pieces of the that were spread around they correspond to the 10 SP that are in me I mean everything is everything is coming from the 10 SPH and I have to start refining my sphere of Mal the sphere of the sphere of whatever sphere it is I have to refine it in me the whole year round it was covered with schutz and dirt andet and and even if I have the mid of of kindness it still gets dirty around the entire year because I do charity but I am a little bit happy and proud that I was able to help that person and I say oh I helped him I feel a little bit of g a little bit of Pride when I do something good so even in a good attribute it can be covered with a little bit of dirt so I want to look in me it's the time that I I I need to understand when I'm cleaning the KET it's not just being on the the floor on my knees and looking for something is as I'm looking it's symbolically I'm also looking in myself to clean the junk that is in me so I want to make sure that it's done the right way maybe we'll prepare for Thursday and we'll do a class why all these little things but now we want to make sure that we're doing it with a candle a single Wick candle from wax and the reason why it's good to buy from these kits because they give you this candle that doesn't drip some candles you light them up and within one minute your whole floor is going to be full of wax more than that some candles they they the way they make the wick the may they make the wax some of the candles might have ingredients of kets in it to make the the wa the wax the wax strong so you want to make sure that the candles also P so better to buy this kit we're in the year of 2017 you can get it everywhere and even if you live in tulso Oklahoma so you order it online on Amazon believe it or not you can order it and you'll get it to the home so but you do want to do it the right way now of course there's a certain that you have to say and and you have to know the braa the braa of course better if you have it from a sid if you buy this kit usually they'll have the already on it which of course is and the next day when we going to burn the kets we also have that we say me we don't say the braa there's just there's a a line that we read we're going to get to it now once you say the bra and you start the cleaning you do not talk throughout the cleaning so even if your husband does the the the checking and he says the braa then you also should not talk it's not the time of saying hey did you hear what happened today no this is for the searching of this is for the searching you don't talk you keep quiet you take the the couple moments of Silence to concentrate on what you're doing and you don't talk about anything another thing is it's best together everybody that is in the house where if you if you're just yourself then it's just yourself but if there's a husband kids everybody has to stand there they have to hear the now if you you have roommates or you live a couple people together then you all together do it and each one goes to check their area you want to do it together and of course not to talk in the meantime now if you have a few rooms in your house and you're standing in the living room and you said the blessing in the living room first check the living room if you said the bra in the in the dining room first check the dining room you always check the room that you said the braa first and not to say the braa in the bedroom and go to the living room once you done the checking you take the bag a bag put all the kets in it it's best to take a paper bag because the next day when we burn the kets you just throw the whole thing in and you don't want to use plastic bags because if you have your own bonfire the plastic makes this bags H since it's made out of oil can make a fire it's more flamable can make this uh black smoke and you want to keep it to the minimum few years ago I usually Tred to have my own bombfire and a few years ago so a few neighbors like oh you have your own I want to come and one of the neighbors that came I don't even know what they threw in the fire suddenly out of P the whole house was a thick thick H smoke and I was like what did you throw in there and we had to turn the fire out so we had to make a new one because the kit was not burned and then it was already full of water so it didn't burn it became a whole big problem and this was done half an hour before the time to burn the kets so I try not to put anything that is flamable like Plastics and stuff like that in the fire of the kets so it's better to take a paper bag like it's very easy to get one you go to any Bakery here where they give you the the pastries they have these paper bags just put the KET in it cuz later on we're going to throw it to to burn it best also to put in it the feather the the the candle if anything is left everything that you use for the put in that bag if you have the the the spoon it's good to to to to tie it and just leave the spoon handle hanging out if you can tie it with a rope or something that theet is in and not going to be moved and put it aside tomorrow you can burn it with the kits now what do you do after Thea now like I said we do the cleaning we do a Thor cleaning but the main canceling of the is in your heart so after you cleaned after you checked after you made sure you did the the checking now you have to appro the from your heart what does it mean to approv it from your heart once you did the checking after the cleaning and after you did the hard work for a couple weeks you have to take to consideration that now in my heart I'm saying okay if I did forget a crumb here and there or there's a pocket that I forgot a crumb or one crack I didn't clean I'm in my heart accepting that I don't have any more kets I I this is called the taking it away I'm totally apprting it from my from my domain now my if I do have any it's like like ashes it's like sand and I can't use it for anything and our sages gave us a a verse to say in our if you don't understand aake don't say it an aake I mean you can read it just for the sake of reading it but you have to say you have to understand what you're saying and the verse the translation is that any or leav that I have in my possession that I can't see that I didn't burn that I didn't that I don't know of any type is going to be cancelled and old and it's going to be like heare heare doesn't belong to me and it's going to be like ashes now really what you want to do you have to understand if you remember last week we learned about the order of the sacrifices in the book ofra and I I explained that the sacrifice is a process that we need to look at and to understand that's what I need to do and that's what would have done to me if I ifem was a little bit less kind if you remember in the class I mentioned that first you Slaughter the animal to take all the blood out then you cut the animal you skin it you take pieces out if you go by the order of the sacrifice that's what I need to do in the spiritual level same thing here in PES so physically I clean the house but through the entire month or a week or four weeks that I clean the house physically that's when I have to clean myself spiritually that's why I said don't go fanatic on the scraping of the floor take half an hour of your time instead of being on your knees to scrape sit with yourself and say okay how am I cleaning my my Nish I'm obviously I have a lot of hits hit is what makes my ego to inflate so I have anger I have anxieties I have I I think bad about other people I have all these things in me that are they need to be cleaned so being on your knees and scrubbing is very good but also you take half an hour of your time and you're saying okay let's let's be real you remember last week we had a lecture about the whole point of the cleaning of KET is admitting just admitting yes I have a problem here I have a problem here I have a not to look at another person and says he has a problem she has a problem that's very easy to do to point the finger at who has problems the point in in PES is to say okay I have KS I have a problem with judging our people I have a problem with the with whatever it is but that's the cleaning of the K that you do because I Want to Be Free the next lecture we're going to have today is about what is real freedom because PES is the holiday of freedom and we all are stuck in slavery and we're stuck like in in jail and we're not free neither one of us is free we are not what's called and we're going to learn next class what does it really mean this freedom and why am I not free and how can I become free because we all want to be free I want to be free from my problems I want to be free from debt I want to be free from Shalom physical problems I want to be free more than that my is in jail my is in jail because it has all sorts of of of barriers and limitations that I'm in jail so the whole h of PES is to go out of jail p is called it's not called doesn't say in the in the T it's called the holiday of of matah or the holiday of Freedom are sages added the name p so the cleaning is yes cuz I can't have in the house cuz the is that I'm not allowed to see eat or own HS but the clean that's where the cleaning is but has to be parallel the physical and the spiritual so I'm scrubbing the floor scrubbing my Nish so the whole time that I'm taking to clean yes I need to clean cuz I can't own or eat or see but it has to be also in my heart that's why having all these classes just about PES because PES is is the preparation is not less important if I come to the night of PES and I did not prepare myself spiritually then the night of PES is not going to affect me so much and the the class that we're going to have after this class we're going to go some stages and what is the real freedom and I'm I'm we're going to talk about it that what happens on the night of PES is a very special night the night of P it's called it's such a powerful night that if you notice we don't see even say that night we leave the door open we don't do anything we were're 100% protected by Hashem and what happened spiritually and mystically on that night we're going to learn in the next J I have uh the most asici night of the year some some of our sages say that P is the holiest night of the year more than Kim because I don't need to do much the The Godly light The Godly Revelation that comes down to the World on that night is unbelievable and what I can achieve that night just by observing the holiday then then I can reach to the highest level of the peak of of of the what my n can reach but the preparation has to be accordingly and we're going to we're going to learn next class hold on that what's happening that night so the preparation is extremely extremely important that's why the last couple weeks that's what we're learning about PES what what's PES why the whole story if you notice our entire being is wrapped around PES every day we mentioning every day when we pray when we bench every Shabbat we do everything that we do because our our entire focus is around the concept of going out of Egypt and now is the day we're commemorating the day you know how I always say in my lectures about about the night of PES it's an apicius time it's the time where this Godly light came down to the world 3,300 and something years ago and permeated the power in the world that any individual can go out of their MIT out of the limitation and that's the night I can hit the jackpot so the preparation is just as important and if I don't have the right preparation then I will come to that special special night without the right tools so everything that I do I do it in the physical and parallel it's also happening in the spiritual so once I clean the physically I have to clean it Also spiritually which means that I have to accept in my heart that yeah I don't have any more kets it's not mine it's almost like you know the little kids that they get in trouble and they steal something you go and catch them they're like that's not mine but I found it in your bag no no somebody put it here it's not mine and they're so convinced or they're convincing themselves or they do whatever they can to make you think and believe it's not theirs so you want to do the exact same thing with your it's not mine very so I don't know where that crumb came from it's totally not mine so after I did this whole entire I have to accept on myself I don't own any more kets when I approv it from my heart I'm saying okay now I took on myself there's a lot of chairs over here now I'm taking from myself that I don't have any more kets and I'm and I accept it already that my my system is clean and that's extremely important and then we say this PUK and again if you don't if you don't understand the Aramaic say it in the language you understand but it's important to say it and you you an know theet that is in you and again it's extremely important that you say in a language that you understand and that you understand what you're saying I I know a lot of people say the the Aramaic and then they didn't understand what they're saying after you have be very careful with the KET that you leave for the next day put it all the side whether you're going to eat theet whether you're going to burn it but you put it aside some nobody's going to move it no Crumbs are going to come going to spill by the kids or Shalom an animal and you want to put it in a in a special place now the next day this year is going to be Monday on the day of P what's called P the morning of P 5 hours after the of dawn you have to make yourself a little bombfire you have to burn your so today in most communities you will find a big bombfire a big barrel where they make a big fire and the fire department is already standing there for security if you can't then you get yourself a big metal tin or metal bucket or whatever it is of course not to to start burning down the the neighborhood you make a little bombfire and you throw all your kets in it and you have to have some kets so the 10 pieces is not good because you will have them in the foil or in whatever bag it is better to keep a little bit of KET that's another reason Shabbat you want to have maybe a piz bread or a roll CU you want some some of your own KET now if you clean the entire house you don't have any kets you have to burn kets so it's good on Shabbat eat a pet of bread keep a few pieces that you can break it in and you can actually burn it and you want to see that the KET is burning and it's become comes burned completely toasted if if 20% of it got burned that's not burning theet you want to take a little piece even if it's a little piece of bread and you make sure that that bread is toasted to ashes now once you throw it in you do what's called you annoying it after you do the B you're saying the next time the verse there's no there no blessing when we burn the but you do say another verse of this again it's originally in Aramaic but if you do not understand the Aramaic then you say it in English or in Hebrew or whatever language you understand in this bonfire like I told you you put these 10 pieces of kets but you want to make sure you're also putting real kets in it some people have the custom to burn their lulav from sukot they put the lulav in some people have many different Customs some people have a custom to the havdala candle that comes to the end you don't go till the end some people keep the havala candle they'll burn it with hits there are many different things that people take on themselves to that they burn with the KET which is totally fine again just don't burn the house down that's that some people they think that anything that is not good they they burn pictures of their ex-husband they're burn pictures of people they heard all sorts of people come up with all sorts of ideas they know that person is I'm not joking some people say that person is H in my life I'm going to burn their clothes I'm not joking the question that that I get some people tell me I I can't stand my ex-wife can I burn her clothes all sorts of crazy things this is not k a little bit of bread a little bit of wheat something that is done from wheat and yes it is customary that people burn their lulav and there is Anan that when you cut your nails you can throw the nails to the garbage you're not allowed to throw the nails to the garbage so there are two ways to dispose the nails one of them is to bury them is to go to your backyard make a hole bury the nails another way is burning the nails just throwing it is not good and also flushing it around the toilet is better not to do it because what will happen is in the sewer systems it will go down the sewer and uh it can still wash off to a certain place and there such impurity in it then you want to burn it now the problem you want to bury it or burn it and not just throw it because there is T on the nail now this nail belongs to you there is a remaining of you so to say you cut it you cut it off you but it has some of your energy and you throw it out and it has this impurity the kipa can have possession over you that can bring all sorts of bad thoughts and bad dreams and even bad much worse than that because you know if you I don't know if you know or remembered I once told you that at the time of Napoleon Napoleon when he came to conquer Russia Russia then the balat the old was at the time he was in Russia and Napoleon was going after him and the the every time wherever he would be the armies would come closer then he would run away talking about the balatan he would run away cuz Napoleon wanted him he knew he's very powerful and and even though the Russians were giving a lot of problems to the Jews at the time the time the batan ISS better that the Russians win him cuz he's totally evil if he will take over he will be 10 times worse than the Russians so he was doing all sorts of mystical things to to stop him to push him and to make him lose Napoleon was a demon he wasn't a human being that's why his hands he never showed his hands his hands were as you know the famous pictures of in Napoleon his hand was always in the jacket cuz his hand hands were weaved he was a demon so he was very small also and that's how he would win he would so to say hypnotize his soldiers his soldiers were like machines that's why he conquered almost the entire world so the balatan knew about it and he was trying to stop this his power so Napoleon was constantly searching for him so every time they would come close he would run away to a different place and one time he forgot shoes in the place where he was staying and he sent him to run back to get the shoes and when the armies were too close they just burned the entire Village down so the B says just that he's not going to have possession of something that belongs to me you see now in in our generation it's we still have what's called Black Magic and Voodoo and all that stuff which is 100% real and if you look at the voodoo they do they take something that belongs to you when in the movies they just make a puppet but in this practice of black magic the person that knows how to do it needs something that belongs to you and it can be even a piece of your jacket something that belongs to you somebody that knows how to control the dark side of it can control you because he has a position of you so when you have when you cut your nails it's part of you it has your your energy now once it's already cut off you then it doesn't have the positive only negative and the kipa has position over your nail so it's not good to just flush it down the toilet it's also extremely not good if you're filing your nails then you must must have a like a tissue or something file it on it and even burn the tissue we should make a class about Nails because women make their nails nice and they file it and they cut it and it's you have to be very very careful besides that it's not good to have nails that go over the meat you can have nice nails but don't make it too long because all the impurity comes and gets hold on your nails nails are very very they I don't know the the right word is not to say except but the because nails they come from a very high source hair and nails they have life in it is is a part of energy of your body but there's no in there that's why you can cut the nail cut the hair you don't feel anything cuz there's no in there there's no in there but there is energy there is that makes them grow I mean the nails grow and the hair grow this just shows to us that it comes from a very very high source so EXC me said how to treat hair hair you don't have to burn or hair is different different energy the cipa only can grab on the nail doesn't grab on the hair you don't have to start burning hair but when it comes to Nails you want to dispose the nails the best way to do it when you don't don't definitely don't throw it in the garbage better not to flush it one way of doing it is to cut your nails you put it on a piece of cloth tissue go to the backyard take a shovel you know small one pick up the the dirt put the nails in and bury it the in a PO yeah in a pot whatever the soil hands or yeah hands and feet and and put it in soil the power of the soil you if you dig there a few months later you'll see disappear the power of the soil will disintegrate the nail the best way of doing it which going a little bit more extreme is to burn the nails and it sounds like wow I'm going to start burning it it's very very easy you take a tissue you cut the nails on the tissue you wrap the tissue together I wet the tissue then I make you know it becomes hard I put it in a tin of oil olive or pickles or whatever tin that you use once a week throw the tissue in set the tissue on fire let it you burn the nails very very simple of course everything should be done in a very secure way why am I telling you all this cuz once I used to uh burn the nails with the KET I would keep B I have a bag of nails and burn it with the kets so the reason why I'm telling you that cuz I know people do it I I later on find out better to burn the nails right away don't don't keep it so the reason why I told you this entire story because I know people do burn their nails and they burn it with humet so don't keep bags of nails it's not good better to better I know a lot of people like might might be throwing up right now and I'm with all these this descriptions but best to burn the nails right away take the whole nail thing serious because it does have a lot of power of impurity the reason why the says about the nails buries themid burns them CU aad says no it's enough to bury them Aid that says I don't want to even take the opportunity the option of maybe a dog will dig it out something that maybe willom will get harmed by it I'm burning it completely to ashes that there's not going to be any remaining of this nails so again the reason why I'm telling you all this is because people keep their nails for p to burn it with the burn the nails right away don't wait till PES let's just go one more part and then we're done for for today what happens when a person goes out on a trip or they're sleeping out or they're not going to be in their home toally oh excuse me what happens when you leave now people leave on a vacation go to their parents whatever it is when do you do the first of all I know a lot of people say I don't do not feel like cleaning I'm just selling the entire house and I'm going to go to my neighbor it's still good to clean the kets and you still have to do aik so even though you you you selling the house so if you leaving the house let's say the time of the burning came and you're driving just twoh hour drive to your parents you still have to do everything the same thing but if you're leaving a day before that you can't say the blessing for the check then you check just without a blessing and right away you en the you appro the KET like we said if you have a little bit of bag of kets wherever you're going to go burn it over there but you still need to clean the minimum of cleaning you do the if it's a day before you say you do it without the blessing and you then you sell all the kets uh but it is important still to do it I think what we're going to do okay we're going to leave now we'll stop now excuse me no I mean the thing is that the burning has to be done the morning of P so if you're leaving two days before take a bag ofet and burn it over there A lot of times what happens is that people let's say I live here and I'm going to spend the P by my parents that live two hours away I can still do everything thing till the morning of PES burn and then go now we're talking about if somebody goes a day before two days before you fly people fly out for PES you clean the house I know most people already say I'm not going to be here I'm not going to go crazy still clean it still clean the kets you can still do theik just without the braa and I mean if you flying transatlantic don't carry a bag of KET with you don't you just I'm saying some people leave let's say somebody Lees I know somebody who's flying tomorrow to America to do the p in America they're going to their in-laws they don't need to carry a bag of kets with them they'll just do it over there they'll take a roll and and and do the burning don't youn your own yeah but you can still own your own kets when you're there that you put in the house and you but that's exactly the thing they don't they're not going to do it there so the in this type of situation they clean their house they seal the house now they're going to have a room where they're sleeping so I told him put theet in the room where you're going to be sleeping do theik without a blessing and the next day you have a little bit of your own KET but you in these few days eat yourself a roll or something and then you burn the KET don't you don't have to fly transatlantic with a bag of kets is no point for that the point is that if you're going leaving the home way before you can still do the without the blessing and where you are you can burn a little bit of and participate in the in the bom fire throw a little bread in it in it and very important to remember a lot of people come they throw their bag in the fire and they leave you have to be there you have to make sure that the KET is burned a lot of people what they do this is another thing by the way I forgot to to mention many women when they do a when they bake kala the kala that they take they wrap it up with foil and put it in the freezer and some people again they wait till PES to burn it if you have a gigantic freezer and you have room to do it then do it but you're going to have a problem cuz you can't burn the dough when it's frozen in foil so you will throw it in the bomb V nothing's going to happen it's not going to burn it so you did not do the actual Act of burning it so what you have to do is you have to defrost it a little bit open the F you know what's going to happen right now it's going to be like gou it's not going to even you can't even open the foil even so the bottom line is that yes it is uh more nicer or better way to burn the the dough on PES but the problem is it's not done the right way and then the dough doesn't get really burnt so what happens is one time that's what my wife did we had a freezer full of bowls anybody who would come close to PES open the freezer bowls of foil will come out because there was no room to put it every sh the whole freezer was bows and then first P we threw the whole thing in the fire and I'm standing there and I'm like what am I doing this is never going to burn it's going to take it half an hour just to defrost and then it's in the foil how am I going to get it out now so it's not going to burn so the next year we started opening it all and it it was so sticky that I couldn't even open it and then it was cold and damp and the fire did not grab on it it did not burn it well the best way I mean if you I mean hopefully you are doing the Mitzvah so you burn it right away put it in an oven high heat or put it on exposed fire burn it till it becomes completely burned from the outside that's it you throw it I'm talking about the the piece that you separate from the dough if if you want to do it on PES you have to be very particular that that piece of dough has to be burned completely the external part that it cannot be eaten by any animal that cannot have any use to it therefore my recommendation is don't collect bowls of foil of dough in your freezer and that way also in PES it will burn much much better but you do need to make sure that the the humet that you're throw in the fire has to burn you can't just throw a bag and leave you have to make sure that it's burned that it burned to a point that nobody can have any benefit from it not an animal not anything if you have a p bread and only the side of it is burnt that's not burning the kets that's one meditation that it's so easy to and of course you have to do everything and be being careful and not to burn the house down and not to inhale smoke so yeah just to use cautious this is not not something that needs Toom be a danger and do it the right way by burning our physicals hasem will remove the the spiritual KET from in me that's the the the verse that we say in aric that the same way that I burned the kets should remove all the kets with within me that I should be humble and loving accepting and tolerating everybody around me and that this should be the last time that we're burning ours next year this year I mean we should do the Corban PES the sacrifice of pesak and we should all be cleaning our kets from within us oh [Music]