Pesach Made Easy

okay good evening and welcome to everybody for our annual pre-pesach workshop one of the favorite nights one of the favorite gatherings of the entire year when pesach is really upon us i don't know about you that's at least the way i feel that's when i have to do a crash reading of all the uh heksharam books to make sure there's nothing new this year that i missed so welcome thanks for coming back and hopefully we'll address all of your questions here's my promise to you my promise to you is that i am looking to make your pesach easier not harder that if you follow what i tell you you will spend less not more time on preparing for pesach getting your home ready and that in fact this is not a time for spring cleaning it's not a time for rigorous activity it is a time to follow the halacha to follow it beautifully in a way that will leave you not a seder but leave you invigorated and leave you enriched and elevated and ready for your seder so buckle your seat belts here we go whether you're on zoom with us or you're in the comments on facebook or on youtube please ask any questions that you have and we will try to get to them and manage all these platforms simultaneously so any questions follow up anything that's not clear anything you want to raise please feel free take a moment and address it in the comments i want to begin before we even get into the halakhah by sharing with you an insight of the great ravichamyr morgenstern the beyond who put out a little contrast a little pamphlet about pesach and i want to share with you some inspiration even before we get into the nitty-gritty even before we get into the minutia and the details of what to do i want to talk about why we do what we do because if all we are is uh all we are is scrubbing and cleaning and wiping and capturing and shopping and cooking and preparing then we'll feel that we're not going from slavery to freedom we're going from freedom to slavery and getting ready for pesach which of course is exactly the opposite of what we're meant to be doing and how we're meant to be feeling so beyond richard morgenstern you're familiar with him if you learn with us on wednesday mornings living with emunah we're going through another one of his magnificence for him and he put out this little contrast this little pamphlet this little uh booklet on paper he says the following he writes there's a lot to think about when it comes to pesach to understand why is the arch enemy why is such a villain he asks an amazing question which we don't have time to we're not going to get into tonight but i submit it to you for your careful consideration and that is and that is why islam such an arch enemy for the duration of pesach when it is permissible the entire year khamenes is the one food it's the one food in our repertoire that at times is permissible and at times is forbidden all other food is either kosher or non-kosher it's permissible or it's not allowed ham is 51 weeks a year no problem eske enjoy one week a year it's this villain we go on a search and destroy mission we become ocd obsessive compulsive we burn it we destroy it we relinquish ownership of it we pledge to hate it to break up to never get back together again so how could you have this food which is so prohibited for a week of the year and yet is perfectly permissible the rest of the time it's a great question he says in order to understand this we have to take a detour and we're not going to try to understand that we're just going to go for his detour kirak a yada the only way to tap into the light of this holiday the only way to be elevated and illuminated by the energy of pesach to understand why matza is so noble and why matzah is heroic to understand why hamitz is our arch enemy and villain is preparation readiness effort in advance the cabela's or hamoid in order to be prepared in order to get ready to accept and receive the light of this holiday but in a strong way said omega so the light penetrates deep into the soul so that it's not something that lives in the superficial or on the surface but we want this light of what freedom means this is the holiday of freedom we're not going from freedom to being enslaved we're going from being enslaved enslaved to social media to pop culture enslaved to our material possessions enslaved to physical pleasure enslaved to power money friends followers whatever is our particular vice we're going from our sense of being enslaved to freedom but the only way we get there is by getting ready it takes hard work it takes preparation over my hair misha is the night passes by quickly and i don't care as is an ancient jewish custom everyone we missed out on this last year one of the ways corona robbed us was last year none of us got to come to show the morning at pesach and compete my seder ended at one that's nothing my seder ended at 2 am 2 am we were just getting started at 2 a.m one of the great universal jewish practices to compete how late the seder ends we were all robbed of that opportunity last year because of corona because of corona so the seder ends it feels like it takes a long time but the truth is it passes very quickly and if you want to walk away when it passes quickly having made a kenyan you want to walk away feeling you were transformed you acquired something about yourself you were changed in a permanent fashion then you need to be prepared you need to come in prepared and coming in prepared doesn't just mean the shopping the cooking and the pesach lists and ingredients and recipes it means coming in prepared with the concepts and the thoughts with the ideas and the ideals of what freedom and liberty are all about and then he says here in the footnote which is why i have to put my glasses back on he says here in the footnote call you through everybody gets ready for pesach you know you can roll right into chavus i don't mean that you don't have to let your cheesecake cook or you don't have to do whatever preparations make your menu there are other holidays that take work but nothing takes the work of pesach nothing takes the advance timeline strategy shopping planning um an enormous amount of energy and time and money and resource it's not a coincidence the jews feel this incredible connection to the aunt of a pesach we feel attached to it our memories are formed the flavors the flavors and the smells and the sights and the sounds of pesach i can still hear my grandmother chopping the charosis grinding the murder i can smell her chicken soup i can still picture the seder table why are those so ingrained in our memory why do we have this emotional connection to the holiday pesach awesome because preparing and work and sacrifice and effort make us into a clay people a utensil that we are ready lazakos are you we are ready to receive the light why am i sharing this inside of it admire because i want you to understand that even though tonight is going to be all about making your life easier consolidating eliminating the spring cleaning and focusing exclusively on the pesach preparations but i want you to know what i want you to understand that i want you to appreciate and i want you to even embrace that all the sweat and tears all the toilet efforts even all the sacrifice of money is part of what makes the experience special it creates the attachment it creates the emotion and it leaves us transformed as a result no pain no gain the feet are agra the more we put in the more we get out and nothing and nowhere do we put more in on our calendar than the holiday of pesach it's what creates the connection and engage your children in it there are things that you can already made we're living in an absurd time you can go into a kosher store and buy ready-made salt water and if that's not a great indictment of us i don't know what is that we are too lazy to be able to take a little salt tap tap tap tap in the water a little spoon mix mix mix mix and salt water a fraction of the price a fraction of the time a fraction of the schlepping a little salt in a little water and voila you now have salt water you don't need a bubby to have that recipe that is the try and true recipe for saltwater everybody knows it but you know what your children will grow or gain your grandchildren if you engage them and employ them and say you're in charge of the salt water you chop the characters you make the more you set the table you wash the lettuce you help get ready you're not depriving them by making them work you're in fact giving them a yantif an emotional visceral connection that they will take with them for years to come and for a lifetime to come because this is true even in the preparation the physical realm bear with me a couple more minutes because this is important and sets the stage for everything else we're going to talk about the kosher came back the more you're getting ready in your understanding why why is coming it's the arch enemy and why is mata the hero or tom and torah because the light of the holiday it is buried within the torah we find it inside and that's why when it comes to pesach says 30 days before the holiday we start getting ready the earlier and the more time and the more preparation and the more resources go into it the closer we feel the closer connection and the more elevated we are as a result don't be bitter the only thing bitter at the table should be bitter herbs the more no bitter people no room for bitter people all this press pesach preparation and as a rabbi i can tell you i'm right up there with the pace of preparation salah is answering questions getting ready writing russia's in addition to my long list of responsibilities at home i'm with you it's not a pleasant time of the year in terms of the effort that goes in but either we could become bitter and resentful in which case our children will want no part of it or we can be elevated we can embrace it we can lean into it and we can feel privileged we can feel privileged that we have this great opportunity for this yantif to be the ahmanikh to be part of a people that hashem gave us this incredible holiday to celebrate and to mark what freedom is really all about he expands much more but i know you want to get into the nitty-gritty so i'll just read to you one more thing even though the effort and the worry and the and the work is great on arab pace find time to also prepare not only your kitchen but prepare your heart he says something incredibly and i wish we had time to really learn this and impact this much more but i know you want to get into microwaves and convection ovens and all kinds of fun stuff like that even though i want to live in the world of richard meyer but he says that's incredibly important and i transition to the next section or stage with this he says when we're going to experience a holiday to experience it most full we have to live beyond like they went from slavery to freedom just like they went from being small to growing great so too they went from being simple to sophisticated impure to pure we too go through a very similar experience we emulate we imitate and we go through a very similar idea and so an era of pesach there's an enormous amount of work and there's an enormous amount of effort and we feel like katanam they feel like we are we are superficial and lowly we're cleaning and we're washing and we're shopping and we're grading we're grinding we're preparing but then we set ourselves free we come to the seder table not as a shemata but as royalty as monarchy regal we come to the seder table not running away from royalty or disowning it but rather we run to tell oprah interview us i want to be a king and a queen i want to be a prince and a princess i want the monarchy i want royalty how proud i am to be a ben melech or a we said at that table as royalty we experienced that freedom firsthand because we have demonstrated we've lived through it by all that it took to get ready for pesach and going into pesach oh that is point number one point number two this year is unusual we have erev pesach bishabhas this year is an arab peso on a saturday night making ereth you must have seen countless articles and speeches and insights and rushers that have come out but i want to review those and then get into pesach itself because in this unusual year there are some very very important halachus to point out and not to be lost on so i think it happens every 13 years or so that era pays off there's a downside downside is you gotta be ready even earlier you gotta be ready friday you lose one day of prep but you wanna know the major upside you're ready for this the major major upside is that kamshabas you're all ready for pesach and now you will do something that you rarely do the other 12 years you will you're going to take a great nap shabbos afternoon and nobody will be scrambling and rushing and nobody will be schlepping and nobody will come to the seder table exhausted and plotzing everybody has an opportunity to come to the seder table while rested and well read prepared with divreitora with thoughts with insights with conversation with provocative and challenging questions we all have shabbos to get ready for pesach and that's a gift we lose one day on the other end but it's worth it for the gift here is number one another point out you have to be careful when you take a nap on shabbos era pesach that you nor when you tell slash threaten your children or grandchildren about how important it is for them to take their nap on their pesach you cannot say you need to take a nap now for the seder because that's called hachana that's called preparing on javascript after shabbos you're not allowed to prepare on shabbos for after shops so one cannot connect directly the idea of taking a nap on shabbos for after shabbos one has to take a nap because you want to take the nap for shabbas and if it happens to be that you're well rested for after shabbos then beautiful you're well rested for after shabbos but you cannot do it you cannot do it uh the same okay that is halacha number one in this unusual year here are some things to keep in mind tina's bohoros one is titan as bohoros bohorim the firstborn from either the firstborn of a mother or a father has to fast on her pesach now that's not the time to get into it why why do they fast maybe it's because they were spared but if that's the case which monroe points out then firstborn daughters should also have to fast they too were spared from this macca so why is it only huge and he suggests the first born fast on our pesach not because they were spared from the tenth plague but rather they fast because they are reminded and atoning for the terrible misjudgment and mistake that made them not be the ones who function in the basa mikdash originally it was the firstborn who were meant to be the priest in the base of magdash but after the first born failed miserably that job that mission that position of distinction was taken away from them and given to the kohanam and lavium instead when did the kohanam when it was at the busiest day of the year when did they shecht the most when they slaughtered the most erev pesach everybody had to shift their carbon pesach and therefore on that busiest day of the year that's when the firstborn look and say it should have been us and because they feel remorse and regret and because they feel and wish they hadn't behaved the way they did they fast not today nobody fasts everybody participates in a seam and they get ready so when arab pesacham is we don't fast on shabbos and once we're moving a fast we don't move it to friday because it could ruin the shabbos so the era of p when is the fast of the firstborn this year is not on shabbos or friday it's several days even before pesach namely it occurs on the thursday before one can participate in a siam in order to be let's say the fast instead when do we do badika's comments first of all if you're not going to be home for pesach and you're going away if you're within 30 days of pesach you do a medical comments you search for comments in your home the night before you leave but without a bracha when do we do the search for comments if you will be home you can't do it on a friday night friday night would have been the normal time that's when we normally do it the night of the 14th of nisan pesach saturday night the night the 14th we would have ordinarily done our bidding our search but we wouldn't do it on a friday night because you got to do it with a lit candle and you got to search it's not consistent with the theme of rest and tranquility of shabbos so when do we do it we do it on thursday night and the blessing of albir is recited before the search so the normal brach of albir khamenes is done on thursday night however the kochamira that's recited afterwards is uh it said but the one the next morning we say it again on shabbos we'll come back to that in a moment and chakras on friday morning friday morning is not really out of pesach remember shamus is ere pesach so normally we omit miss moral soda because the karma today had comets in it so we don't say it on arab pesach however when arab pesach is on shabbos it means friday is not really arab pesach then we do recite mismala soda even though it feels like arab pesach we do what about burning muhammad the truth is you're even allowed to eat comments on friday night and shabbos morning until the last time for comets which each community i know people are listening from different places so i won't reference a specific uh time but the last time for eating comments on shabbos morning you're eating a lot of e-commerce friday night and shop this morning until that last time so burning comments on friday is there a last time so technically speaking you could burn comments the entire day if you could ecommerce shop this morning you could burn comments all day friday however our rabbis very prophetically impressively said if we allow you to burn comets all friday this year then next year mistakenly you'll get confused and say hey remember last year we were allowed to burn it the whole day this year too we can burn it the whole day so as to avoid a mistake of burning the comets at the wrong time in an ordinary year we burn the comets by the latest time of burning comets even this year even though it's not really the latest time we practice and we exhibit as if it's the later time even though it's not really the latest time because technically you could burn all day friday but we burn by the latest time in order not to get confused in subsequent years however the nullification of the comets which we'll talk about in a moment the different methods and ways in which we break up with hamitz in which we end our relationship with hamitz that nullification of khabit with the restitution of the quran is postponed until after the commit set aside in shabbos morning so you burn the friday by what we would normally have as the latest time but you don't say the ko khameera friday morning you say it on shabbos after you part with hamitz on shabbos now this is very very important listen carefully seder preparations should happen before shabbos on friday because normally an air of shabbos is when we're scrambling check the lettuce grind the morrow prepare the charosis set to tell you there's certain activities however which you're not allowed to do on shabbos and if you leave to do mozai shabbas then your seder is not going to start until very very late and they become complicated to do even on on mozai shabbas as well so they should be done in advance so make a list right now you're ready take out your pen and paper make a list right now on friday by the time shabazz begins you should have roasted your shank bone you should have roasted your eggs you should have mixed the salt water you should grind and mash the ingredients of the charosis grate the horseradish check the romaine lettuce do all that in advance if you forgot to make the salt water before shabbos a small amount enough for the first sata can be prepared on saturday night salt water for the second day however you can't do until after the first day of yanta till sunday night if you forgot to grind the ingredients for jarossa or grate the horseradish you could do it on mozai showers before the first seder and then sunday night before the second seder however it has to be done in an unusual manner you can't grind in a normal way so it's complicated but more technically it's going to take a lot of time and everybody's going to be eager and ready and waiting to start the seder so i can't reiterate strongly enough that reminder prepare on arab shabbos by the end of friday when you go into shabbos know you are ready not only are you ready with salt water and roasted chicken bone roasted egg mix in the salt water and grinding the charosis and the murra and checking the letters for bugs and so on and so on but my strong suggestion to you is your seder table for friday night for motei shabbas rather your seder table for the first seder should be set already on friday where will i eat you ask get a folding table an outdoor table a kitchen table eat elsewhere on shabbos and you're going to take care of two things number one you won't have to scramble on mote shop is to first set your table for the seder number two you will be able to eat the comments you will need in order to fulfill a friday night and shop this morning without being concerned you're going to compromise where you're going to have the seder and where you're going to eat on pesach so if you have a folding table or an outdoor table or a kitchen table or a coffee table or someplace else you could have your shabbos meals you can set your whole seder table before shabbos even begins and then motze shabas davin marev and you're ready for the first seder everything is prepared including your table i don't take for granted i know not everybody lives in an area or has access to the space that it's so simple in order to be able to do it that way i understand but if you do i strongly and highly suggest that is the best way to do it okay shabbos meals what do you do about your shabbos meals you have to have lucha mishna friday night you have to have lucra mishna this morning we have on shabbos we eat two loaves at each meal moreover you have to have three meals what we call shalloshidus sudash three meals how are you going to make it all happen this year when er pesach is on shabbos so friday night i highly suggest you're having an entire pesach meal eat on paper and plastic and in order to you'd say hamotza you have a couple of options ramosha feinstein said that you can use egg matzah matzah ashira remotifying stems of the opinion that one can use egg mats on friday night or even shabbos morning until the latest time of hamitz whatever is the latest time of muhammad you could have egmats until the latest time of hamas that was the opinion of rav moshe feinstein that is not my recommendation personally my personal recommendation not because khalil i would disagree i'm in no position to disagree with ramosha feinstein however i think very practically have two pitas or two challa rolls and leave them aside and eat them over a designated area that you will not get crumbs anywhere make the hamote on them and then set them aside you're done with comments for that meal you could do that both friday night and shabbos morning and that little bit of comments whether two pizzas whether it's two chala rolls that will serve as your hamotzi as your leche mishna instead of the mata ashira which generally we don't like to taste the matzah beforehand there are all kinds of other creative suggestions ramosha mori varabi or shechter as a suggestion that if you fry mata mata mavushal but forget all the other suggestions i'm telling you what the goldberg family is going to be doing leave two chala rolls or two pita breads eat it in an area that will not produce crumbs just have the minimum requisite hamotzi friday night shabbos morning the rest of the meal be pesach paper and plastic on a plastic tablecloth you can conveniently wrap up and throw away and we'll talk about where you can put it in the garbage in a moment that's friday night and you do that shop this morning now you have a problem you have to finish eating in boca raton florida the latest time for eating comets is 10 58 a.m in boca raton florida at least on montoya circle the latest time for indian comments is 10 58 a.m latest time for disposing comments is 12 12 p.m at which time again you repeat the ko kamira so if the latest time is 10 58 you got a problem because we need to eat three meals so first meal friday night good to go i told you what to do second meal show this morning good to go you save your two pizzas your two kala rolls you wrap it up get rid of it you're good to go how do you have the third meal how do you have the third meal so i'm gonna skip right to the bottom line and i'll take you through the halachic analysis and process but one should make kirish davan early the minyanam in boca raton synagogue on pesach morning on shabbos morning are 7 a.m 7 30 7 45 and the latest minion is the street man at 8 00 a.m all of them and young shabbos morning are very early because one needs to finish in order to get home with enough time to have two meals you're gonna have kiddush and hamotzi and then you're gonna bench you're gonna take a 20 30 minute break going for a walk playing a board game preferably learning some torah and then you're going to wash again when you wash the second time it is your third meal that morning you're going to wash a second time which becomes the third meal but again you need to be done in boca raton by 10 58 with whatever you've washed on it for that third meal and then you only have to 12 12 to dispose of the chametz there are other ways some prophets say you have to know to be you'd say allah showed us the third meal it has to be after after has to be in the afternoon how do you do that so then you need to rely on having shallow you'll have to rely on being you'd say with um you have to beyonce with fish or vegetables or some other snack or food hot dogs meat hamburgers something else in that afternoon which you'll be able to also because by then you can have matzah you're not gonna eat mata er pesach you can't have it it's after the latest time happy comets so that is the way we do it what do you do with the garbage the comments that you want to throw out so if it's small enough you can flush it down the toilet that is a proper way to dispose of it you can flush it down the toilet if it's not you can put it in the garbage wrap in a plastic bag and put that in your garbage but your garbage should be at the curb so an air of shabbos on friday already put the garbage at the curb so that on shabbos morning when you're taking whatever is left of the hummus that you did not include in your sale by the way because we're selling the comments on friday in fact we're selling the comments on friday by the end of the ordinary time that we saw it's even though technically speaking we could sell comments the entire friday because you can still eat comments the entire friday and friday night shop this morning for the same reason that we that we burn the comments so that we're not confused in future years we sell the comments by that time the shaya sal will be on condition we will explain to junior that we are selling the comments but excluding from the sale whatever comments that we plan to eat on shabbos and whatever is left from that was not sold whatever is left from the comments we didn't eat friday or shabbos morning put in a garbage bag and take it out to the garbage which is already at your curb and then you are mafia relinquishing ownership it's not yours if somebody driving by wants to rummage through your garbage and eat the rest of the pita or kala roll that you didn't and in the case of my wife's khala you don't have to be a poor desperate person i tell every one of you it's worth going through my garbage for her leftover khala that's how good her khala is but if somebody were to go through it they're entirely entitled to take it it's by their right to take it because we're a mafia we declared it ownerless that is the way to dispose of the comments flush it down the the toilet if it's possible if it's not you could put it in a plastic garbage bag and you put that plastic garbage bag by the curb in a place where you're relinquishing ownership of it all that has to be done by the latest time so again boca raton the latest time to eat is 10 58 the latest time for disposing of khamers with the recitation of khojamira is at 12 12. so yes flush it down the toilet or put it in a garbage bag and put that garbage bag at the garbage which is at the end of the at the end of the block okay shall i show this preparations for the seder and then seder knight okay now let's get ready that is what is unusual in this year because it's arab pesos bashavas now let's move over to our usual conversation and i have a little spoiler alert to you i hope that i won't disappoint you terribly i don't have a whole lot to say this year this is at the point where you might as well listen to last year and the year before in the year before of course i will entertain whatever questions that you have but there's not a whole lot to add because the same rules and the same principles that enable pesach to be made easy will be true and the same hate mail i will get that i don't know what i'm talking about will come in but i stand by it and i stand by it not because i am worthy of it wrote a whole contrast where he promoted this and great godolam and great postcard have encouraged the the the nashville kaneos and we are egalitarian when it comes to the pesticide preparation that one should not do spring cleaning don't go crazy so here's going to be my contention are you ready it's a good thing you're all sitting down i can't really see because none of you have your zoom cameras on which is why i barely go on zoom anymore but i assume you're all sitting down because why in the world would you listen to the standing up so good you're all sitting down here it is here's my promise to you hi penny here's my promise to you my promise to you is listen carefully take good notes follow what i tell you and excluding the kitchen because the kitchen is a lot more preparation excluding the kitchen the rest of your home should be half a day to clean to get ready for pesach it's taking you more than half a day maybe one day maximum but more than half a day you're not doing pesach cleaning you're doing spring cleaning pesach preparation the torah hashemis does not want you spending more time than that how can i make that contention where am i coming from how can i make that promise am i out of my mind have i ever cleaned for pesach do i know what i'm talking about will any of you ever eat in my home again i'll explain to you exactly why and i'm happy to prepare i'm happy to share the mara makamas i'm happy to share all of the source sheets all the shahana mishna brewers i'm not making this up this is basic halacha 101 however we over the course of time have somehow confused spring cleaning with pesach preparation pesach preparation half a day spring cleaning could take a lifetime i'm not interested in a lifetime i'm interested in getting ready for pesach because coming back to where which omar morgenstern told us i want to do the hakhana so we come to the table where the light is coming through our heart we go from katniss to godless i want to come to the pesach table well rested and ready to go to have a night of freedom and a night of royalty so you're ready faster faster up here we go here we go the ramanas introduction says there are eight missiles that apply to pesach today three are positive commandments to destroy the sauro the comets to eat matzah and to tell the story of the sabbath smithsonian three positive commandments five negative commandments you're not allowed to eat comments from midday and on you're not allowed to eat comets all week you're not allowed to eat even a mixture of container comments and lo your role you might say you're not allowed to see you're not allowed to find you're not going to walk down publix or win dixie the isles and pesach you are you can see hamas you just can't see humans that belongs to you also you can own commits even if you don't see it and it's elsewhere so the prohibition of seeing comments is that belongs to you now why is the arts enemy and it's the arch enemy i'm not talking about right now in ash kafa although we could for hours and hours and i would enjoy it much more and probably you would do hamas is the enemy because it's or represents the inflated ego and says the enemy because it represents the passage of time procrastination being lethargic it is it represents uh the arch enemy because it represents the eight sahara and avodah zarah i could share with you hours and hours of beautiful sorenesses about what cometh represents the worst of within us but says arch enemy number one in way as well and it is in five distinct ways is unique number one we have a specific prohibition not only against eating but you're also prohibited from eating a mixture that contains comets number two we have two prohibitions from even owning it not only are you not allowed to eat it and not only are you not allowed to benefit from it you can't even possess it number three we have a positive commandment to get rid of it when it comes to meat milk when it comes to pork and bacon you're not allowed to eat it in some case you can't benefit from it but nowhere does it say you have to destroy it you gotta destroy number four it's ah you can't benefit from it you're not allowed to feed it to your dog we'll get to we always do the pet food cases everyone i get all those emails my pet every jewish pet is like can't anyone own a safari cat or dog there's a good stomach everybody has to have ashkenazi pets with their bad gi systems get a sweaty pet you'll be good to go so every year i get the emails and the text messages and the questions you don't understand my rabbi rabbi my cat has a very delicate stomach my dog has a very specific diet i know i got the list from the crc and the star k in the ou and it's got its list but my my cat my dog can't touch that stuff has a very delicate stomach so israel you're not allowed to feed your dog comments you're not allowed to give comments as a gift to someone else you're not a prophet for muhammad there are chuvas it's permissible but what if you own stock and intimate's donuts what if you own stocks stock and arnold's bakery bread are you allowed to have to sell your stock before pesach as well so prohibition number four is not a benefit and prohibition number five is why comets is the arch enemy prohibition number five this combination unique to hamitz is it's also it is forbidden even in a negligible minute mount so what were the five uniquenesses of pesach of comets rather if i could test you right now i would what are they number one we have a specific prohibition of love against eating even mixtures of comets number two we have two prohibitions against even possessing number three we have a positive commandment to destroy comments number four we're not allowed to benefit from muhammad and number five it is us it is prohibited even in a minor amount what constitutes comets any food made from the five grains the rambam list the five grains in parakeet it's also tough and they are krita kusamasa wheat spelt barley oats and rai these five grains are the grains that could create hummus and they are also the grains that would make matza if you mix them with water and in under 18 minutes bake them you've got kosher matzah you can buy spelt matza and matza and wheat mata and rai mata you can buy it you might have to mortgage your home to buy one pound of it but you can buy it but all five grains would constitute and are eligible for positive for uh for to be in the middle mata the bad news all five grains mixed with water allowed to sit for 18 minutes unmanipulated also become chametz kitnyos is not hamitz i just gave a shirt earlier this evening about kidneys and the origins from medieval times france germany ashkenazi fighter never it kidney has two reasons we're advanced of why we have a prohibition of kittenios no we can't undo the prohibition of kidneys among the top three things that rabbis get bullied about on doing kittenios undoing second day of yantif and my mother's been petitioning me to cancel tisha buff since i got smikha i don't have the power to do any of the above so kidneyos is an ashkenazi practice we are strict it's not hamitz someone older and firm or not well or a sensitive stomach or a baby or a child or an infant who needs formula there are exemptions there are cases that we do allow kidneys it is not however ashkenazim have adapted astringency to not consume kidney us because it looks like it can produce foods that look like comets sometimes hummus was mixed in with the kidneys different reasons are offered but remember it is not hamitz we are just strict in the way that we treat it so comments results instantly when the grains are exposed to hot or salted water or even when they're mixed with cold or lukewarm water and they're allowed to sit for 18 minutes or more why rashi tells us you know why you know why hamas is us is prohibited even in the most negligible amount you know why because because he says we're used to eating comments all year round so i don't come close to bacon or pork all year i know it's wrong i don't come comfortable of meat and milk all year i know it's wrong but i enjoy all year round and so therefore it's not going to be forefront of my mind not to eat it on pesach and therefore we have to be even stricter to say it can't even be around bamasu it can't even be around in a small amount it's an isakaris it is the most severe penalty uh consequence if one eats the ramen gives a different reason he says davis because comets is going to be permissible after pesach true you can't have it on pesach all you have to do is wait a little bit and it'll be permissible after it'll be permissible after pesach so we have multiple methods to make sure that we don't have commits in our home and the two methods are bitter ahmed and bedika is we relinquish our ownership of the muhammad we say hamid i'll make the same joke i make every year comments it's not a problem in you it's a problem in me but we don't have a future we're going to have to break up in part we're going our separate ways and therefore i no longer own you we are no longer in a relationship we relinquish our ownership of it how do you do that you fold your arms you blink your eyes and you say comments i hereby no longer own you i declare you ownerless to the world and that's it so on a biblical level make sure that you listen to the end this sentence you can't only listen to the beginning but on a biblical level biblical level if you were to close your eyes you don't even they'll tell you what you could even do with your eyes open on a biblical level if you declare i no longer own any of the in my home then you are good to go you're done you don't own hamas and you can't violate the prohibitions of hamad however the rabbis were very wise and they understood what's the problem the problem is you're going to have a delicious sour dough you're going to have just a donut or croissant you're going to have a delicious whatever it is name your kryptonite sitting there and you know what's going to happen on pesach you are going to be so hungry and so craving carbs that you're not going to be thinking and when that that donut or that piece of bread is available to you you're going to reach for it you're going to bite into it and then you're going to remember oh no i broke up with the comments i forgot i don't own it i'm not allowed to eat it it'll be too late you will have eaten something your prohibited your you're violating this on so the rabbi said that's the mistake so therefore we do badika go search and destroy search and destroy a mission throughout the entire home go search go find go eliminate all the comments so you'll ask well once i'm searching and i'm destroying all the comments in my home why do i have to do bittle why do i have to relinquish ownership and the answer is because what if i looked all over my house but i missed the one donut under my mattress and now i encounter it on pesach and i crave that donut so now what i'm going to do so i also need to do bitter i need to relinquish ownership not i'm sorry even if i don't find it what if i have comments in my house that i didn't find and now i'm going to have violated having the fact that i owned it how do i get out of that so the answer is the combination bitter medica we add a few more we do bitterhammers badika and bior and then we do machira we sell the comments how does the selling of comments work not for now so we do all three search and destroy relinquish ownership sell the comments and by combining those three by the end by the time that we enter pesach we have no relationship with hamitz whatsoever and there's a lot of work to do that's why the mr buru says we start cleaning at least 30 days before pesach although well i say there's a lot of work to do note i'm going to tell you that it's not that much the kitchen is the majority of the work and why do i say that why do i say that i'm going to go a little faster than i go most years and just tell you the bottom line about these halachus tell you the bottom line about these and they are the following you ready here we go areas and places this is we want to look at it inside in a tough base of base i'm sorry tough llama gimbal gimbal areas and places where hummus has never brought into your house do not need to be cleaned or checked let me repeat that areas or places where comets is not brought into your house does not need to be cleaned or checked so unless you went into the crawl space unless you climbed the ladder and sat on your ceiling fan while eating a sandwich unless you pulled your oven out or your refrigerator out and sat behind it while munching on a slice of pizza you do not need to clean therefore pesach i just eliminated an enormous amount not i the code of jewish law and its true expectation of us just eliminated an enormous amount of the work that people do that you need not do that you need not do when it comes to when it comes to pay stuff so again any area where comments is not ordinarily brought need not be cleaned any area where it's not brought need not be cleaned so appliances that are not going to be accessed or used do not need to be cleaned or checked they simply need to be put away and sealed so that means that your toaster oven you don't need a toothbrush or a toothpick your sandwich maker you don't need toothbrush or toothpick your food processor or your bread maker you should not spend one second on any of them all you need is a box on a piece of tape all you need to do is a place to put them away put them in a in a cabinet and put something across the front of it so that is rule number two so rule number one is any area or place where you don't normally bring clements need not be cleaned or checked rule number two is anything that you're not going to access over pesach need not be cleaned or checked so any appliance that you're not going to use any room let's say you determined that you know what my playroom is so filled with khamit that i'm just going to lock the door to the playroom i'll sell the comments in it and after pesach will buy back the comments and i will unlock the playroom you're good to go let's say you're not going to do that but you'll do what my wife what we just did which is determine okay we're going to take a box and any toy which is complicated to clean or i think might have comets in it i throw it in the box so you know what they're going to be free from too many choices on pesach we're going to consolidate the options which is really going to set our children and grandchildren free to have less to play with and they'll enjoy it much more so any complicated toy is going to go in a box with a piece of tape we're going to put it away and now my playroom is almost ready to go so that was rule number two anything that will not be accessed or used on pesach need not be cleaned or checked it simply needs to be put away my favorite job in the kitchen everybody knows give me that tape removable tape you don't want to destroy the cabinets but i love walking around the kitchen with instructions of what we are not using close off that cabinet that cabinet that cabinet that cabinet that cabinet 70 of the kitchen's ready to go you don't have to if it's a cabinet you're not using a peso don't empty it don't wipe it down don't wash it down don't clean it tape is your new best friend removable tape is your absolute new best friend i saw now they're selling next to the salt water um somebody sent me a picture they're selling stickers that say sold to a guy chametz don't go in you can now even buy but again why pay for the why pay for the markup just use go to home depot and buy or anywhere else and buy disposable tape or order on amazon like you do everything else these days so buy disposable tape and your favorite part of the day average or when you're cleaning rather is walk around any room any dresser any closet any armoire any pantry any appliance any anything that you're not going to go into on pesach need not be cleaned or checked simply put it away and seal number three any food that is not categorized as edible meaning a dog would not eat it is not considered hummus there's no need to check for crumbs that are less than a kazaas if they're dirty or soiled and wouldn't be edible to a human mishnibura tough members siflam and gimmel i didn't make any of this up all in so that means to say even though we said or even in the most smallest minute amount negligible amount that's true of the last crumb of my wife's amazing khala because it's edible edible hummus is prohibited even in the most minute amount but once it's rendered inedible then inedible is defined as less than a kazias and not edible to a human or even more than because it's not edible to a dog once it is inedible by those standards it's not called hummus anymore so whatever is underneath your stove or behind your refrigerator first of all you don't ever go back there to eat comments second of all you're not going back there on pesach third of all whatever is there is inedible and therefore is not a problem so i will tell you what i say every time practically speaking any cabinet closet room that will not be entered on pesach can simply be closed with a piece of tape across the door and come in sold any kitchen cabinet any drawer any cupboard that will not be used on pesach need not be cleaned just needs to be taped shut any appliance food processor sandwich maker mixer bread machine that will not be used need not be cleaned whatsoever needs to be put away in a sealed place and whatever hummus that's in it will be sold for pesach what happened at some point in jewish history pesach preparation was substituted with spring cleaning if you're moving your refrigerator your oven or any heavy appliance you're doing spring cleaning not pesach if you're climbing on a ladder to clean a ceiling fan or to take a toothpick to a toaster or a food processor processor or you're scrubbing grout with a toothbrush you're emptying and wiping dressers closets lining pantries crawl spaces shaking out books that haven't been opened in years you're doing spring cleaning not pesach cleaning if you're doing any of those things feel free to do them in august september feel free to do them november december don't do them in march don't do them and then blame ghazal and hashem for you are being exhausted demands that we go room to room confirming there's no comments that's larger than 30 grams and edible and that can be accomplished you ready for this in a few hours at most it can be accomplished in a few hours again i'm not talking about cleaning kasha in the kitchen which takes a little bit longer but if you walk around with my favorite tape and if you really say that areas where comets didn't go you do not need to clean and you recognize that areas that you're not going to access on pesach need not be cleaned and you realize that areas that don't have helmets which is edible need not be cleaned then it should take a few hours this substitution of spring cleaning for pesach preparation comes at a great cost it comes at a great cost it makes us miserable and we project and transfer that misery to the next generation and instead of entering pesach excited and enthusiastic and prepared with divrei torah we enter resentful and negative and miserable that's no way to enter pesach again the only thing bitter at the seder table should be the herbs not any of the people so a few hours at most not five days to pesach cleaning i'm gonna write my own book not five days five hours to pesach cleaning and you are ready to go if you follow those simple rules i told you anything you're not gonna access put away and seal any place you're not gonna go into close off any place you never bring comments into to begin with if you're climbing a ladder you're not getting ready for pesach if you're on your hands and knees you're not getting ready for pesach if you're carrying a heavy appliance or a dresser you are not getting ready for pesach you are making a terrible mistake a terrible mistake and so the shogunate writes a person has to be overjoyed and happy going into the holiday and mr bureau is quick to add that being happy in the holiday is a mitzva do rice and applies equally to men and women to sacrifice or compromise that happiness because you're doing spring cleaning instead of pesach you're making a terrible terrible and tragic mistake for you and for the generations to come that are watching and that are absorbing your attitude and so do it with love realize as we saw the peace from vich amir that is creating that emotional connection that relationship embrace and lean in and do it with love it is creating these these emotional connection the sights the flavors the sounds the smells the tastes of arab pesach of getting ready for pesach don't take on extra and that which we're not obligated to do i have myra mccomas if you want to look at oh everything i told you comes from the shahnaz everything i told you comes from so let's talk about cleaning your house and then we'll get to the kitchen so cleaning the house now you go room to room when you go through the closet that clothing does comments normally get put into the pockets is comments going into the dresser is coming it's going into that jacket or that luggage if comments could get there then you have to check it legitimately you have to check it i'm not telling anyone to take the easy way out and tell you to take the halachic way out now the mishna bureau does tell us that if you have children at home small children to a certain degree all bets are off because when there are small children at home there's no place in the home that small children can't get to so there is an element of that being true but by the same token we do know that there are places in our house where comments is not taken we know that arguably the majority of many of our homes we never take or schlep comments in there so if there's an area muhammad says never brought into you need not check it clean it or be prepared or be prepared for it okay so as you're going room to room clothing dressers you don't need to empty everything automatically and wipe it down and refold the clothing and separate what you're giving to goodwill or you're donating that's all spring cleaning muhammad never goes into that dresser drawer if comments never goes into that nightstand the muhammad never goes behind that bed then you need not check if you think it might then you need to check legitimately you cannot take the easy way out or cop out takes my bidding comments in my house takes a very long time takes a couple hours over an hour for sure because we are very careful we legitimately go room to room with a lot of young children i'm not suggesting taking an easy way out but i'm also telling you that you not do not need to add work going through closets peripherally looking making sure ensuring there's no comments there you are good to go so that is the rest of the house any questions you have please put in the chat please submit i'm happy to address i'm happy to respond to let's get to the kitchen now let's get to the cash ring of the kitchen let's go area by area of the kitchen where should we start where should we start the refrigerator that's the easiest the refrigerator the refrigerator should be cleaned well the refrigerator shelves should be wiped down the refrigerator shelves should preferably be covered but you need not be neurotic about it the covering is not because there can actually be a transfer of taste there cannot be a transfer of taste in a cold refrigerator however this is the minute gestural is to put down something on those refrigerator shelves perhaps just to remind us that it is pesach so you don't have to cover every inch or millimeter of the of the refrigerator shelf but the customer is to put something down we also um if you have a freezer where there is ice that has uh what's the word i'm looking for you should defrost it as frosted defrost the freezer because there can be comets mixed into the frost with the freezer clean not only the refrigerator carefully and well but the accordion seal around it the rubber accordion seal should be cleaned carefully around it as well and now your refrigerator is good to go your ice maker if you clean it well can be used on pesach you are good to go that is the refrigerator see how easy that was what about your sink so the way cash ring works is kibolo kakpot the way that food is absorbed is the way it's purged so the transfer of the food came through heat then the way you get it out is through heat if it came through liquid the way you get it as liquid if it was transferred through steam then the way to remove it the way to purge it eliminate it is through steam that principle cabola carpolto that the way it's transferred is the way that it's purged is all you need to know for the world of koshering so for example the microwave how does taste get into the walls of the microwave why can't you just scrub down your microwave well and then you're good to go why do you also have to casher it the answer is through the medium of steam food goes from the particle in the in the uh microwave into the walls of the microwave and if now on paste use that microwave and it produces steam it can take the taste out of the walls of the microwave and impart it into the food that you're eating and potentially be transferring the taste of chametz so since the entire transfer of taste happens through steam that's also how we purge it of that taste how do we purge it of that taste so clean your microwave well clean out the filter clean every nook and cranny take out the glass table glass ashkenazim this farmhold glass doesn't even need to be cautioned for pesach nazim hold glass cannot be cautioned for pesach so take the glass out of the microwave the glass tray out of the microwave you cannot crush your glass and the way to cash in our microwave is clean it well and then leave it 24 hours why do we leave it 24 hours because we have a principle called the dover pogame strictly speaking every taste that is absorbed into a utensil is considered to be a negative taste it's a double pogum it is considered to be a negative taste a stale taste after 24 hours 24 hours after that food is absorbed the taste is absorbed into the wall of utensil it's no longer viable it's considered to be stale and no longer viable so i why can't i just take a non-kosher utensil wait 24 hours and then use it i'll tell you a little secret biblically speaking you can meet orisa you would be allowed to me it would be good enough however however the rabbis came along and they said you're going to get confused between the 24 hours what happens if you cook with that utensil 23 and a half hours later now you got a big problem so in order to be strict we don't rely on the 24 hours and we have separate meat and separate dairy separate kosher separate non-koshers and separate we don't rely on the 24 hours however we invoke the 24-hour rule as one of the methods of cashewing so whenever we kasher certainly if we're doing hagala or libunkal we wait 24 hours so when you're going to cash your microwave a copper cashier sink or crush your countertops or cashew your regular oven not a not a self-clean oven i'll elaborate more in a moment when you're going to cash or any of these things first you wait 24 hours clean it well clean it well wait 24 hours cashier that is the magic formula so you clean your microwave well and then you remove the glass tray you remove the glass tray clean it well wait 24 hours and now you're ready to cash or how do you kasher with steam how do you caster it with steam easily you take a microwave safe bowl cup utensil you fill it with water and you run it in the microwave long enough that it produces steam 10 minutes 12 minutes 15 minutes however long you then fill it again with water you move it to another spot because you have to caution the spot where the bowl was originally you move it to another spot within the microwave and then you make it produce steam yet again now you've casted your microwave use special care and caution when you open the microwave boiling water in a microwave can be challenging i've never seen it but i've read when you open the door in the microwave it can be a problem so open the door the microwave very carefully after you've boiled water inside of it or let it cool before you open the door of the microwave but that is the way that we casher the microwave so microwave is casual by cleaning while wait 24 hours remove the glass table and then leave water in it long enough to produce steam move it to another place so that it catches the place where that first bull was aliza asks my microwave is also a convection oven how do we casher it and the answer is you casher a convection oven a um a microwave convection oven the same way you do an oven so let's talk about how you cash or an oven you cost your oven similarly you clean it well clean it very well and then you and then you wait 24 hours we're not talking about a self-clean oven we're talking about a regular oven clean the oven well and then wait 24 hours and then run the oven on the highest setting for an hour that's what cashews the oven so clean it well wait 24 hours run it on the highest setting for an hour and that is the same way you casher a convection oven the glass should be removed from it but the convection oven is casted like an oven like a microwave and that is the way it's done when you talk about uh margo's asking about using a um how do you boil the water in the microwave you can do it i think something disposable is the easiest the styrofoam copper bowl but you can use um either a pesach or non-pesto cup as long as it's been 24 hours to put the water in but a disposable utensil is the easiest way to do it microwave safe cup or bowl with enough water to produce steam to cash out the microwave move it to a second spot do it again convection oven is like an oven clean it well wait 24 hours high setting for an hour self-clean oven you do not need to wait why do you not need to eat you do not need to wait because a convection oven is a convection sorry a self-clean oven is liben hammer the heat of a convection oven is incredibly incredibly hot it will incinerate i mentioned every year if you take a wood spoon and leave it inside a self-clean oven and run the soft clean oven you will find a pile of ash afterwards on the floor one of the ways we caution are grates although they can change colors so i'll give you a warning you should cash your grates on top of a stove in a self-clean oven but it can often change the colors i find it the easy way we have we have gas a lot of people in florida have electric or have glass top we'll talk about we happen to have gas and we have what do they call it like a continuous rack it's not four separate distinct racks but it's a continuous one so we find it easiest to just insert them in the mic in the oven a microwave in the oven run the self-clean cycle on the oven and it cautious both the oven and the grates of the stove top but i caution you it can make them change colors so that is how you casher a oven and a self-clean oven that's how you casher we talked about microwave convection oven and the refrigerator let's get to sinks sinks how do you cash our sink it depends on the material so we talked about cobolo polto that you kosher in the same way the food got there to begin with how would food taste get imported into your sink it's not going to be cooked there you don't cook in a sink it's going to get there through what's called iroi you're going to have some khmer's food item and you're going to pour it into the sink and the taste will get transferred through the process of pouring well the same is true if that's the way the taste got there to begin with then that is also the way that we get the taste out how do you get the taste out by cabola carpolto eroy clear boil water and then you take the boiled water and you pour it over the surface of the sink clean the sink well wait 24 hours this gets complicated particularly this year if you're going to be using the sink on the shabbos of eric pesach no i'm sorry not the shop is the very peso you'll be in big trouble next shabbos next shabbos um yeah we'll get to lisa we'll get to the other way to kosher the greats in a moment so your sink clean it well wait 24 hours and then you cushion it by pouring the boiling water not every material is capable of being castered so stainless steel can be captured for example formica according to most post can be captured but um ceramic cannot be captured so i want to bring your attention to a couple of resources your best friend is the crc pesach guide see it right here crc pesach guide crc refreshpain my dear friend and my friends at the crc do a phenomenal job 90 of the time when you text or ask me a question i'm going to the crc app or the crc pesach guide you can save both of us time and go right there yourself if you like but the pay stock guide is fantastic download the crc app on your phone searchable it's easily in categories it has lists of ram it is your new best friend crc kosher it is an app on the phone in chicago council or the pesach guide is incredible information our dear friends at the ou produce the ou pace over guide pesach guide passover really tremendous information star k has a great guide particularly medicine and cosmetics star k those are the three guides i highly recommend crc oh you star k there are other guides that i put out there are other guides that i put out by names of people who are no longer among the living that's all wonderful enormous tamid i don't recommend those guides i highly recommend in that order the crc guy the ou guy in the star k guide crc is really very intuitive user friendly has many many of the answers i highly recommend it all of them the crc in particular has a great beautiful if you want to print it out in color beautiful color coded i'm holding it upside down but color coded green means go red means stop but it has a list of all the different countertop or sync type of materials whether they can be captured with comments on them what can be cautioned what can't be captured utensils that can be cautioned or can't be cautioned fantastic so check it out there i'm just telling you the methodology but go to the crc guide you can download it it's free they give this enormous resource to the community for free 100 for it it's tremendous sorry about that tremendous tremendous tremendous so there's a list of which sink materials can and which camp same tree with your counter clean your counter well and leave it for 24 hours and then pour boiling water on it if it has cracked scratches in it the comments can get in you have to cover those with tape or spray something caustic in it in order to destroy so it's not royal it's no longer considered edible that is counter tops backsplashes should also be covered or castered caster with pouring boiling water or covered with material because a hot pot can't touch a backsplash one has to be careful that that is also something which is captured every year i get asked about steam i saw a great video that was put out maybe by the crc that showed that the steamers that we have in order to cash it you need water not steam you need water and the water has to be added to lettuce about 212 degrees most steamers that you're going to get by the time the water condensates into what and the vapor the steam is is water it is less than yeah it's lettuce bowl yes less than that requisite amount and so steamers you there are types of steamers they're very expensive they're industrial type steamers they're complicated they're time consuming i do not recommend trying to go to steamer root it's possible but i do not recommend it either boil water and be very careful now you when you crush it with boiling water whether it's your sink or your countertop you cannot simply splash it but you have to walk with the water over the surface you have to take the water around the surface of the sink you have to walk with the water along the surface of the countertop you can't simply throw it that's not called eroicle reshone then by the end of the countertop all it's getting is the leftovers the cold water of the leftovers from the original splash so you've got to walk with the water as you release it have someone behind you with towels be wearing rubber gloves make sure you're wearing clothes shoes all that i share with you having learned the hard way be very very careful and cautious when you are cashering with boiling water we did a new kitchen several years ago after we had a leak and from then on my wife decided she was not risking the cabin is getting destroyed we cover and i will tell you that i love the fact that we cover our countertops because not only is it more user friendly to to make it prepared for pesach but the kitchen has a different look you walk into the kitchen and you know it's pesach time i love that byproduct of doing it that's the way it was in my house growing up and that's true now as well you could use a two kettle to pour the water but the eroy cliche on the water has to be mala ababos for the water the kasha it has to be bubbling mala a babus is an animal it's a word that sounds like what it is the water has to be bubbling over so you boil water in whatever vessel you want you can use either pesach pot or you could use a hummus pot that hasn't been used in 24 hours to boil the water and then you take that boiling really bubbling boiling water and that's what you use to cashew your sink assuming it's a material eligible to be captured to cash your countertop assuming it's a material which is eligible to be captured when capturing your sink by the way you're faucet a lot of the faucets pull out be careful to pull it out and pour the boiling water directly on the faucet as well because when you were washing dishes the steam of hummus could have gone up and hit the faucet and the same can be true then with your with your pesach dishes so you should casher the faucet as well not just the inside of the sink but the faucet with a pot which is with water that is bubbling over so that covers the sink for the materials for the sink and the materials of countertops i highly recommend and refer you to the crc guide let me just look at the questions here and catch my breath to see what we're missing um can you cash out the oven before you cache the stovetop yes you can need not be the stovetop first um do you need to cover closet shelves like kitchen drawers where open food is not intentionally brought no as long as they're clean wipe down um you do not technically need to line them how would you caution the stove top grates okay we can move over the stove top and once let's move over to the stovetop so the way you crush the stove top is the following it depends how your stovetop works if your stove top is electric which meant that there's metal area and then there's metal coils and they they they glow when they're hot then the way you casher is you cover all the metal in between and the four coils you run on high until they glow that's how you caster the electric stove top so an electric stovetop you cut you cover with tin foil cover well all the catch area all the metal area between the four grates before the four coils and the four coils don't do all four at once you'll melt something it's too much heat but one or two at a time you um you uh casher by leaving them on high until they produce until they glow and when they glow you know they are captured okay so that is the stovetop electric stovetop now we move over to the glass stove top a glass stove top which became very very popular and kosher's agencies took several years to get this right they were coming out different years with different suggestions we're proud of brs that we hope when we think we got it right to begin with by the way quick commercial if you are not a member of brs 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it does not mean that what you do is the following what you do is you clean it well and you leave it for 24 hours you leave the four again coils on high until they glow red within the glass that's how you caster that area itself when they all cool leave one of them use one of them to boil water and pour that across the surface of the glass and then the most important part is on pesach itself don't put anything on the glass in between the area of the burners only put things down the pots for example on the four burners don't put on the area in between the burners okay so that is electric stove top and that is the glass top stove moving over to the um gas stove and the grates ramosha says you can turn a burner on high and the same way that the stove absorbs is how it's purged so by leaving the burner on high for 10-15 minutes you cushion each one don't do all four at once or six or eight or how many you're showing off that you have in your kitchen do only a couple at a time from a safety standpoint but leave the burner on high and that's how you kosher the burner motion as the chuva in the context of do you have to designate burners as milks and flashes and he says no when the burner is on high you've cautioned the burner and therefore you're not designing it as milking some flashes that is how you casher the gas stove so you can either take the grate and put it in your self-clean oven or you could caution the grate right on top of your stove by leaving it on high but a gas also all the area underneath the grates an area between the grates should be covered so if you have an electric stovetop you have to cover with tin foil all the area in between if you have a gas stove top you have to cover with tin foil all the area in between if you have a glass stovetop don't cover anything or you'll break your glass stove top cashew the four corners and then don't put anything in between preferably pour boiling water across the surface of the glass as well but not while the four are hot okay that's stove top so we did sink stove tops refrigerators ovens what about a warming drawer is there a way to cash for a warming drawer so the starkey bar hashem has a way to kasha a warming drawer you can light a chafing dish a sterno can in the warming drawer leave it open a little bit because you don't want it to combust leave the door of the warming drawer slightly ajar so there'll be enough airflow for combustion allow the can to burn for two hours so clean it well leave 24 hours and then burn a sterno in the of in the warming drawer with it open a little bit if you have a warming drawer you know that after the crc app the warming drawer is your other best friend it is a great way to warm food on shabbos and yantif and so if you want to cost the warming drawer that is how you cushion the warming drawer microwave sink warmer drawer counters refrigerator regular oven convection oven stove tops kerrig how do you catch her at carrick makers the o.u for years has been telling us you can clean it well leave 24 hours and then run a kosher pesach k-cup through a carrot cycle and your kerag is now ready to go for pesach that is how you casher a kerrig for pesach somebody asked can you cash her a i'm trying to catch up here the ou has a list of the carry cups that are good apparently thank you the ou has a list of the k-cups that are good for cashiering here you go they have this on page 24 if you have the ou guide coffee maker must be clean while not used 24 hours remove k-cup holder perform hagala or e-roy on the cake cup holder run a kosher repaisa cake up in the machine and that will casher it okay what about dishwasher ooh someone asked about a dishwasher so the ou guide said cashing a dishwasher is complicated should only be done in consultation with the authority that's a pretty big cop-out so i'll tell you the answer of a dishwasher the answer of the dishwasher is it can be done but i don't recommend it weapons can you can cash or hard plastic so certainly if your dishwasher stainless steel can be captured even if your dishwasher is hard plastic it can be casually passed and it can be captured but it's not recommended why because in the bottom of the dishwasher are filters and traps and gaskets and rubber tubes and it is very complicated a lot of places the hummus could get mixed in so it is highly recommended not to cash for the dishwasher if you want to use the racks of the dishwasher to dry dishes people sometimes do that but even that's not necessarily recommended but you can according to mandy poskin you can cash her a dishwasher if you are if you are following the post game who allow it then you clean the bottom extremely well filter the area of the traps leave it for 24 hours and you run three consecutive cycles no soap no no detergent you run three consecutive cycles in a row for those who believe that you can but otherwise we try to discourage the capturing of a of a dishwasher what else hot water urn in the water cooler what is the luck of the hot water urn an urn that's only used for heating water run hot water through the water tap for 10 seconds while pouring boiling water from the kettle over the watering tap so let's say all you do is fill water cup with hot water and then you make your coffee and then you make your own meal then you make whatever it is so no hummus ever actually comes in contact with the tap you don't wash the hot water or with helmets then the way to casher it is as i just said pour boiling water over the tap and let boiling water come out of the tap for 10 seconds if the urn is also used to warm food put it away for the holiday and get a pesach version of that urn water cooler pour boiling water over the tap and replace the water bottle i don't really understand it never did wife to replace the water bottle i don't think this comet's in the water bottle that sounds like a stringency to me but pour boiling water over the tap in case boiling water was coming out of the tap into your oatmeal or into some substance which was humid that is your water cooler your urn your oven dishwasher sink microwave kerrig maker what did we leave out how to cash the subway pots first of all if you live in boca raton we thanks to the orb and my dear friend robert feligostuck the phenomenal wonderful head of the rb the robbie will be having kasharing on the sunday before pesach 10 30 a.m to 12 30 p.m in the parking lot of boca raton synagogue you can bring the utensils within reason your utensils silverware that you'd like to cash her kiddush cups that you'd like to cashier and that will be available in the shule parking lot 10 30 to 12 30 on the sunday of pesach feel free to come and a huge thank you to bethesda and the orb for making that available electric mixers not recommended to kosher very complicated barbecue grills very complicated you need a blow torch not simple it's not a matter of only koshering the grates but food can get caked and baked in underneath and all around so i don't recommend get a george foreman get a grill pan for on top of the stove get a pesach mini barbecue for every colomoid but i don't recommend it can the espresso coffee maker be casher i believe the same way as the kerrig i'm not possible um the ou only talks about the kerrig because i know the nespresso snobs think that the kerrig is like you might as well just drink instant coffee but i'm not sure about the nespresso i think it's the same as the as the kerag but if you remind me deborah please god i will look into it okay did i miss any of the questions with the kitchen utensils for koshering let me just look at the chat for a moment bear with me gosh of the oven stove top faucet carrick covered covered oven grates uh pot if the pot's larger than the burner on the glass top stove yes it is okay because that's why we are gonna pour the boiling water over the rest of the surface of the glass to cover our bases in case the pot circumference is larger than the burner circumference um yeah yeah yeah glass top plata uh warming draw we talked about um shabbos hot plate what about costuming a shabbos hot plate we didn't get to that very good shabbos hot plate clean well leave 24 hours plug in and leave on for an hour and then cover it and you can use it on pesach so if you have a plata or hot plate you clean well leave 24 hours plug it in and leave it on for an hour and then cover it and you are good to go to be able to use it on pesach then you are good to go okay what about induction stovetop i'm being asked about i remember looking this up last year does anyone remember what i answered last year about the induction stovetop let me see if i can find what i answered complicated the exchange of electricity here it is induction stove top before casting induction cooktop it has to be thoroughly cleaned then left unused for 24 hours cooktop then requires eeroy rose clean you pour boiling water over the cup top of it but note that you can't use the induction cooktop on shabbos or yantif cannot be used in shabbas yantif but for khalamoa an induction cooktop can be castered clean well leave 24 hours and then pour boiling water over the surface of the induction cooktop okay checking the chats here we're in several places i don't think i missed anything the insta hot water can be captured by pouring boiling water over the surface of it oh this brussels machine thank you to my phagostock who is i'm sure many better things to do than listening to this but it's helping me in real time in fact feigl stock feel free to come on and take over um canada's kosher certifier the mk has 10 simple steps for cushioning your nespresso machine for pesach clean the outside of the machine using a new sponge or cleaning agent make sure there's no pot on the machine fill the water canister turn the machine on use the nespresso descaling kit run a cycle without a pot until the water comes out as clear do not use the machine 24 hours after being left out of these 24 hours fill the canister turn the machine on cash the machine by running a cycle without a pod once again i know i read those 10 steps quickly but if you google 10 simple steps for koshering an espresso machine you will find it it's from a three years ago but rebecca stock says it is still true today so you can rely on that okay um so even a hot plate that was used all year for shabbos you can follow what i said clean it well leave 24 hours plug it in and leave in the highest setting for an hour and then cover it with tin foil and you are ready to go so larry enjoy your coffee simon enjoy your hot plate and i think we have covered the different utensils of the kitchen let me go back on these different things and check and catch up nespresso induction um when you leave your home early for pesach you have to check every room no if you're leaving for pesach and you're not going to be home and pesach at all you don't have to clean or check anything sell the comments in your home do a badika's comments the night before you leave without a bracha but it's not even a real badika because you don't really have to clean uh if you're leaving pesach you don't have to clean or prepare anything i think that takes care of the kitchen did we leave anything else out feel free to weigh in so between cashew in your kitchen and getting your house ready we're talking about a day and a half and you're ready to go remember tape is your best friend you're taping up every you're taping up every um cabinet every utensil every appliance that you're not going to be using and you are good to go anything that you're worried i didn't cover crc guide and whatsapp are phenomenal as of the ou and the star k and canada as we see also has can you drink more than four cups of wine by my favorite favorite wine drinker there is you can you can in fact over two nights you're gonna be drinking eight and the lunches in between you're gonna have but you have to drink always responsibly and in moderation and looking forward my brother to drinking together with you okay seder preparations we talked about have to be on friday do not forget um don't wait till motei shabbas and then you'll delay your seder start so we talked about we talked about that suvi machine can you cash out a suvi machine that is a good question i don't believe i saw any of them talking about it before goshark if you're still with us feel free to weigh in on the koshering of a suv to be able to prepare your steak to melt in your mouth when you make it after it sits in the sous-vide delicious very delicious i'm not sure let's move over to the area of cosmetics and ingredients first of all again the crc app i know i'm endorsing it i'm not on the crc payroll i promise you but it is a great app and it has a shopping guide and when you go to the supermarket you want to know what needs to be kosher for pesach before anyone's welcome to text me i'm happy to answer anything but again this is where i'm going to go to look so you might as well cut out the step and look directly yourself they have a shopping guide beautiful color-coded you see that beautiful color-coded shopping guide magnificent and it will tell you with each product doesn't need to be coaching or pesach or you could buy it without it being kosher for pesach or it depends on its ingredients it tells you everything so so for example what do you want to know styrofoam doesn't need to be kosher pestox styrofoam is fine without it sugar brown sugar and confectionary sugar need to be kosher pesach pure white cane sugar without added is is acceptable even without being kosher pep what else do you want to know about olive oil extra virgin good to go other types including extra light needs to be kosher pesach crc shopping guide it is searchable so when you go to the supermarket and you have a question it is searchable mayonnaise medicine milk mineral oil popcorn is kittenios whatever you want to know which nuts almonds everybody always asks me not numbers walnuts they want to know about walnuts for the jarosas everybody already wants to know so um great shopping guide check out the crc shopping guide it should answer your questions if it doesn't when you tweet the shot the crc they usually get back to you and they are enormously enormously helpful um air fryer i'm not positive about an air fryer i didn't see it mentioned either i don't think you can cash or an air fryer maybe there is a way i'm not sure i will try to look into that penny remind me if i don't get back to you on the air fryer let's talk about cosmetics and makeup and this is where i think there's a disservice by some in the greater community so for many years the crc has published a letter that they write in conjunction with shmo first to die in chicago and of david zucker of the chicago community colonel for many years with gaddafi dove schwarzetzal who passed away this year is on the crc and they published a one-page letter called medicine cosmetics and toiletries for pesach and let me tell you the rule of this very carefully and clearly and here is the rule listen carefully all pill or non-chewable tablet medication with or without hummus that one swallows is permitted all pill non-chewable tablet medication even with comets is permissible it's permissible remosh as a chuva and he says when you swallow the pill whole it is not a it's not considered to be a food so even if there were comets in your pill you are good to go so if you take medicine do not stop taking it that's true for medicine vitamins and food supplements don't necessarily fall into that category it depends is your doctor prescribing that vitamin to you as a medicine or are they recommending it'd be a good thing for you to try but it's not rising to the level of being a medicine but a bona fide legitimate medicine even if it had comets would not be khabits and you'd be allowed to take it on pesach liquid and chewable medications may contain famits should only be used under the direction of a doctor and a rabbi so liquid and chewable might have kidneys might have comets and you need to ask ashila about it okay if it has kidney it's not a problem you could take it if it had actual comets then it would be then it would be the problem i see some are waking up yankee shiffman waking up to the brs globals back alive thank you for reviving beerus global brsonline.org global brsonline.org global please come back and join us we would love to have you in our global community cosmetic and toiletries very very important set up cosmetic and toiletries all varieties of blush body soap conditioner cream eyeshadow eyeliner foundations ink lotions mascara nail polish ointments paint shampoo and stick deodorant sounds like my kid's bathroom that whole list they're all permitted for you sanchabas shabbos and pesach not shabbos pesach regardless of the ingredients contained within them why is that why is that it's very simple something is only considered to be if it's edible if it's not edible then it is not it is not comets so you have never seen anybody eat blush body sub conditioner cream eyeshadow eyeliner foundation enclosure mascara nail polish ointments paint shampoo stick deodorant all of those are inedible do not waste one moment looking up whether your brand of it is good it is not necessary they are not edible they are not in order to be humid it has to be edible many varieties of cologne liquid deodorants hair spray boost perfume shaving lotion sunscreen and wipes contain denatured alcohol and therefore should only be used on pesach but they do not contain alcohol or the alcohol is known free of chamas so some of those products have denatured denatured alcohol can be consumed there are in fact alcoholics who are being prevented from drinking alcohol and they will drink cologne or liquid deodorant that's how addicted they are they are edible so that potentially is a problem so there it is good star k has a great list and you can check out the great star k list for the colognes liquid deodorant hair sprays and mousse perfume shaving and sunscreen but or you could look at the ingredient panel if they do not have denatured alcohol then you're good to go and lastly lipstick mouthwash toothpaste which can come should not be used lipstick mouthwash or toothpaste if they have comets should not be used again the star k generally has a good list we're happy to help you out you can call our office if you don't have access to that list we are happy to help you the crc guide also has a cosmetic and medicine list beginning on page 78 medicine and toiletry in details everybody wants to know if i had a dollar for every tums question i get for pesach pesach and tums go together so everybody always wants to know about tums they in fact have two paragraphs on tums on page 79. so if you have questions about your medicines you have questions about your toiletries uh they have long lists of deodorant liquid and spray lipsticks bobby brown chanel clinique estee lauder l'oreal lancome they have long lists of all the lipsticks you can go onto the pace off guide again you go to crcweb.org crcweb.org download the peso guide print it out read it online get the app it'll answer your questions this just in from every phagostock thank you again for your help we should do this together every year the suv should not be kosher for pesach according to the ou you cannot cash out a souvenir for pesach air fryer if you could check on an air fryer that would be a big help that would be a big help um yeah a mat for an induction cooktop the pot sits on it and it still conducts electricity i assume if you get a pesach version of it meaning i assume you can't cash for the mat you can't use the same one that you use during the year but if you had a pesach version of it it probably would help but you i think need to cash for anyway pouring boiling water on that induction stoop tub we didn't mention tablecloths and towels they can be cleaned put tablecloth or towel through the laundry it's good to go for pesach however what are they called um [Music] not not the ones that can go through the washing machine line um i'm blanking out on the word other kinds of tablecloths that can't go through the washing machine you cannot uh use the same one you have to get a pesach version of it what do they call the other kinds of tablecloths it's much more fun when we do this in purpose and you can yell out at me what's it called the other kind of tablecloths ah tablecloths here it are fabric fabric tablecloths can be used for paste after being laundered vinyl that's the word i was looking for vinyl lynyl i know it wasn't lynel but it sounded like lionel vinyl vinyl tablecloths cannot be casted and should be replaced for pesach okay so we've taken care of medicine and toiletries we went on a tour of the house we won a tour of the kitchen we come back to ravitch meyer morgenstern don't forget to get ready to let the light of pesach go through you to lean in and to be enriched and elevated to go through this experience a little bit of after so when you come to the pace of seder you come like royalty in order to be liberated and free and i think that uh i think that is it uh if you have other questions if you're a brs member or brs global member feel free to text or email me and i'm happy to try to answer them for you thank you for joining as always i want to wish everyone a kosher visa tomorrow morning partial share 9 30 a.m tomorrow what else wednesday morning we have 10 minutes of meeting with asharma and living with amuna wednesday night we go behind the bhima tremendous program this week and uh moteshabas shabba sagada we got a great russia prepared for you growing community larger and smaller at the same time this moza shop is nine p.m on our youtube channel or live in person in the book on synagogue join us mozai shabbos for the shabba sagado drasha very excited for that and until next year in your 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