Pesach Made Easy (2022/5782)

okay good morning bogartov sorry we're a couple of moments late but glad that you are here i'm actually shocked and stunned when people show up not because everybody knows how to make pesox so well but every year i essentially say the same thing and i'm tempted to just pray press play on last year's pre-pesach workshop but there are new questions that arise and there are people making pesach for the first time and so it's my pleasure and privilege to go through this exercise together it's part of the healthy and holy work it's part of the holy avodah of preparing for pesach and that's one of the points that i want to make together this morning is that rather than view what we're about to discuss and spend our time on as a burden it's a privilege it's incredible opportunity you know you could do the exact same activity and you can be doing it reluctantly hesitantly and bearing a burden or you can be doing it with excitement and as a privilege as if you're running to something i'm trying to think of an example or a metaphor for that you know it occurred to me you're gonna have to go on a long walk in our jewish journey in which you feel you're heartbeat all along you feel your pulse you feel how exhausting it is you're miserable you're resentful you're anger and you wish it was over or if somebody says to you you've won the lottery i have a billion dollar check waiting for you you've got to walk a certain distance to go get it you're going to hop and you're going to skip and you're going to jump and you're going to sing and you're going to whistle and you're going to say i don't even notice how difficult how hot how long the walk is it's all the context in which we see something and why we want to be doing it and if we envision and if we picture that it's an incredible source of reward then we're happy to do it and if it's absent of meaning and purpose it feels like a burden and so i think that attitude when it comes to pesach is critically important but let's get started i want to first of all thank our sponsors in memory of his beloved mother ravi pomeranz who is on the third day of pesach thank you so much for sponsoring this pesach made easy workshop hopefully uh nishamula and aliyah and this of all the hours saved of spring cleaning rather than of pre-pesach planning and that simchas yantef the joy and the happiness that people can come into yantev with should be a great great swiss so as i mentioned even before we dive into the specifics which we're going to do our normal tour of the house then we're going to take a tour of the kitchen we'll take a tour of the supermarket and go on lots of tours together today you know to be tested for corona before or after this tour so we're gonna go on this tour together uh before we dive into the tour itself is to take that step back and again the attitude i mentioned last week in one of our shiurim i think without exaggeration i could say that how our children perceive what they hear us and what our attitude is as we prepare for pesach can literally have an impact on whether they will be from or not if we want inspired and passionate and devoted children and grandchildren then they need to hear us have a love and a geshmach and an excitement and an energy and an enthusiasm when it comes to preparing for pesach though we countdown to when that opportunity arrives that we can't wait to be able to go through the holy work of cleaning for pesach and if the hero is miserable and forbisten and negative and complaining then they're going to say what do i need it and what do i want it if they hear us acting like we're slaves rather than free people then they're going to choose what they perceive as freedom over our slavery so it's so important like everything else that we do before one engages in a mitzvah you say this is a bracha that is recited on that mitzvah and there is no mitzvah there is no barakah rather that we recite on cleaning for pesach in a sense there is in antiquity maybe they first cleaned badika's comments that was the search and destroy mission was the night before pesach and you make abraham your comments there is a bracha we don't say abraca when you start already say some quest torah you start already on motse hanukkah or you start already purim there is no bracha on cleaning but our mindset and the kavanagh and what the bracha is meant to do why do we say abraca before we do a mitzvah we're focusing ourselves we're making a declaration that we're going to be mindful i'm not just waving four weird species i'm taking my spine and my heart and my eyes and my lips i'm taking the four kinds of jew i center myself i ground myself i calibrate myself you make a bracha before the chauffeur and i brought them for you like candles and i brought up before you put on fellaini why do we make that bracha center i'm grounding myself i'm about to do is holy activity it's not just it's not just random and it's not just mundane it's holy and it's elevated and i'm grounded and i'm centered and i'm thoughtful and i'm mindful and i'm conscious and conscientious as i do it and the same attitude and consciousness is what we need to bring towards this mission of cleaning and preparing our house for pesach pesach is this yanta for freedom and liberation it is this holiday that is transformational it is the holiday of faith and i'm not just looking for comments throughout my house i'm looking for what it's represents is the ego and says arrogance and says temptation and desire and hamas is addiction and is all that is inflated in my life that needs to be deflated not like tom brady's football but deflated in the sense of humility deflated with a sense of modesty and can anyone say that our house is clean from muhammad i don't mean leaven i don't mean bread i don't mean of the five grains i mean spiritual comets our homes from one pesach to the next become unfortunately they become filled because we're humans not because we're bad people everybody's human so maybe there was gossip shared around our table maybe there was envy for what our neighbor has maybe there was arrogance or ego that got in the way of healthy relationships in that home and from that home towards others that means that there's spiritual comments all over and when we are looking and searching and when we are destroying the comments what we are saying is not only physically we are collecting muhammad which is 11 which is that which is inflated rabbi is like muhammad to the sahara that's why hashem what do you want from us so worship what can we do there is this leaven inside ourselves there's an ego there's arrogance there's a sense of self in us and that's a barrier it's a boundary it struggles we are contaminated with it when we do vidiq's comments in my home and i know this is not why you're here so i'm not going to belabor this point but i think this introduction in this context are critical because to obsess about is tom's good or no good how do you kasha the carrick this year and is this product and and not to see the big picture and not to zoom out that lens and understand why am i doing this what am i trying to achieve what feeling am i seeking to generate what environment am i trying to create for my family is one of the greatest disservices that we've had to focus on the on the micro and to be obsessed with the minutia and to never talk about and to never center ourselves first by establishing why are we doing this and what are we trying to achieve is to lose the forest of the trees is to violate the whole reason it's to go from freedom to slavery when we're supposed to be going from slavery to freedom so in our home on tonight this is not our idea it comes to shame and others we have this little talk with all the children when they hide the comments and when we go look for it that our mindfulness and our thoughtfulness as we find that in each of their bedrooms in each of our bedrooms and in the shared space in our home is that we're each identifying what is the comments for me this year what do i need to work on what am i trying to purge or get rid of what am i trying to obliterate or destroy what do i need to meet fire with fire what fire is raging inside me in the wrong way that i need to throw it in a fire so that fire can meet fire and destroy it what do i need to work on am i jealous my envious my arrogant am i egotistical am i looking at am i saying am i listening to the wrong things am i reading the wrong things what do i need to work on that i need to get rid of and my kids when they each hide their piece of comments they think of that thing and then we search for it and the next day and the next morning and everybody says when we come and we burn the muhammad we all re-articulate and we recite what the hamitz is that we're working on what it represents and then each takes their comments and throws it in the fire you understand how transformational how impactful that is it's not just hurry everybody we have to do this quick quiz comments before we can have fun we got to get this thing out of the way where did you hide it give me the hint i don't want to do it take as much quickly as we can but there's a spiritual there's a metaphysical there's something big that's happening there's not just a spring cleaning we're not just cleaning our house physically we are cleaning our house spiritually whether you live with a big family and many people whether you live alone we are cleaning our house we're cleaning it out from that negativity we're turning that corner it's going to be a place of light and a place of positivity and a place of modesty these things are so so important even though that's not why you're here and i'm getting the look on your faces that it's time to move on but this is my this is my big hang up i just very quickly the haggadah says the russia we sit at the table the russia's mava does this work for you and rabideran of baylor he asks tori asks really pesach knight that's when the russia is bothered tisha bobby's okay with yom kippur fasting 25 hours he gets through him sitting in trouble all day rosh hashanah that he doesn't ask questions about but you're about to have four cups of wine and delicious food and you're gonna bet to sit and enjoy the whole night family talking that's why he's asking on a night of four cups of wine that's when he's bothered really so you know what he says he says we have it wrong we think the russia is asking us what is this whole seder what is this but he's not asking finally he's sitting down and he's looking at his mother and his father and he's saying all i've heard you do for the last 30 days is kract and complain and grunt and sigh and moan and groan and be miserable what is the point of all this work for you so do we want our children to be a russia do we want them to turn into a russia because they see us as our yiddish is an avodah is it all miserable and negative and are we off you know or are we supposed to come to the table as i like to say the only bitter thing at the pesach cedar table is supposed to be the herbs not the people leave the bitterness find the freedom and the joy and the geshmak and what we're all trying to create what we're all trying to achieve leave that sense of an avodah understand that when i'm doing it towards a holy mission and a holy purpose it's a whole different attitude i personally have never been pregnant i've been around somebody who was several times and it's uncomfortable and it's painful and labor pains are incredibly uncomfortable but to birth a healthy child what a person is willing to endure to undergo so there is some pain and discomfort before pesach in that process but it's to birth the yantaf of pesach it's not to arrive at the table of shemata it's to arrive at the table a free person with a home that is clean and pristine and not contaminated with ego and arrogance and envy and all the things that bring us down to purge and to get rid of that and to come and arrive at the table in the pure way the great rabbit that's kodash the piazzetta i didn't see this inside i saw someone quote it if i plan to look for it apparently says that a jew can only connect to the inner essence of pesach through that scrubbing and cleaning through that preparing and getting ready why just like a human being has within our body all these organs but we don't know they're there there's a heart that's beating but we're not really aware of it we have lungs that are breathing but we're not really aware of it you know what happens then when you work when you press them if you go for a run around the circle it's a gilgal somebody who worked hard for pesach who's not happy with me let's fly so then what happens you go for a run around the circle and all of a sudden when you're done your heart's beating and your lungs are working overtime and by working by pressing yourself now you're highly aware of all the organs inside your body so holy piazzetsna says only time to find the hidden holiness of pesach is by working you got to get the spiritual organs working when the spiritual organs are pumping and working that's when you tap into the holiness and the beauty of pesach and that's what we're trying to do and that's what we're trying to achieve stay mindful stay focused do what you have to hinden let's get ready we're about to clean for pesach get ready we're about to cook and kasha for pesach get ready here's what we're doing and why we're doing it and it transforms the entire experience because there's a lot you have to come to the pesach table and you have to come you have to experience simcha people forget or they neglect that there is and we should not be doing spring cleaning this is the essence here now we press play on what we talk about each and every year what is this what we talk about each and every year spring cleaning versus pesach cleaning every year i hear people complain the torah the rabbis it robs me of my happiness the misery the work the effort i'm a smart it's nice to talk about freedom rabbi but that you had to be prepared for based off and they don't sound like that but they do sound like that but that's not the halacha and that's not the torah doing that to you so what we're going to go through today is what the demands and anything that you're doing above and beyond it you're welcome to but don't blame the torah and don't blame the rabbis don't blame hashem and don't bring don't blame anyone in your home or your family you can come to the table well rested and happy and prepared and spiritually prepared having learned and listened and attended shiurim and read through how god does so the key thing that we're going to focus on is the difference in distinction between peso cleaning and spring cleaning and spring cleaning if you are on a ladder if you are on your hands and knees if you're holding a toothpick or a toothbrush you are doing spring cleaning not pesach cleaning if you're following the halacha you never need to be on a ladder you never need to be on your hands and knees you never need to be moving a major appliance out of its spot if you're following the halacha and therefore i contend that you can clean your entire house in a matter of a few hours a matter of a few hours if you want to do spring cleaning and empty every drawer in every closet and every bookshelf then do it in november do it in august do it when you have time during the three weeks do it during sphere do spring cleaning whenever you want don't blame the torah and don't blame halakha follow the halacha pesach take my life into my own hands is not a big deal cooking is a big deal it's many meals and many guests kitchen cafe can be a big deal but cleaning the rest of your home doesn't have to be and shouldn't be we have a torah prohibition of owning we in fact have many prohibitions it's an unusual halacha we go through this every year there are three positive commandments or we have to get commandment to tell the story of the exodus of leaving egypt three positive commandments five negative ones what are the five negative ones you can't eat a mixture with comments and then we have unusually by europe you cannot see your own you cannot find muhammad you own this doesn't mean that you can't see muhammad in general you'll want to walk through the supermarket and see the shelves that have hammers if you don't own it but you can't see how much you own you can't find it's unique there are five characteristics of chemists that make it not only unusual make it unique number one we have a special prohibition not only against comets but against mixtures containing comets normally there's one prohibition and if something in ingredients is in a mixture such that it is um identifiable it's a problem but here the torah gives us a specific prohibition against even a mixture of muhammad number two we have two prohibitions against not only eating comments you're not even allowed to possess is our arch enemy for one week muhammad is the absolute arch rival our adversary and you're not only not allowed to consume it or eat it you're not even allowed to possess it that's by your abba matzah you got to get rid of it number three we have a positive commandments to dispose of comets not only do you have to eat it you have to dispose of it in fact according to some if you've cleaned your house so well there's no comments anywhere to be found how do you fulfill the mitzvah of your comments how do you burn comments on our pesach how do you fulfill the mitzvah of tashpisu there is a mitzvah not only to have the result of a home free of muhammads but to actively destroy humans how do you fulfill it review the big discussion do you burn it can you throw it into the wind can you flush it down the toilet how do you fulfill the mitzvah of we have a separate prohibition of burning comments number four you're not only not allowed to possess you're only not allowed to eat it you're not allowed to benefit from it so there's a question can you own stock in a company that owns can you feed humans to your dog can you gift comments to a non-jew who has no prohibition of hamas these are all questions because you're not leaving a lot of benefit it's number five and this is the one that's going to be the sticking point for us is also prohibited even in the smallest most muhammad negligible not prohibited in a kazaas or kabeta in oliver and egg is not prohibited of some large amount hamas is prohibited in any amount at all bimashu even a tiny small amount what constitutes clements what is the definition of this search and destroy mission we're about to enter together we're going to go around home we're going to take a tour of a home and talk about what we have to do well what are we looking for what is this arch rival what is this enemy what is this great adversary known as hummus says comets comes from the five types of grains that we passed namely wheat spelled barley oats or rye any mixture made from the five flower of the five types of grain with water that sat for 18 minutes or more is comments if it sat for 18 minutes or more that is kham it's the five grains what about kit neos kidney is not what is kidney is a big discussion ashkenazim adopted upon ourselves in the middle ages that for one of two reasons its debate either because legumes beans legumes lentils they used to be sold in bags and sacks that were packed and in order to bulk them up and to weigh them down flour was added or grain was added it got mixed in so ashkenazi the middle ages said if we allow you to cook or bake using them there's a good chance you're going to consume actual comments nobody has the ability to filter through these legumes and these these kidneys and eliminate the real humids the grain you're going to come to it so it's a stringency you're not actively eating comments but you might come to comments so they said no kidney us number one number two possible prohibition is anything that can be manipulated and turned into something that looks like comets is prohibited these legumes you can grind and turn into flour and from that flour you could make things that look like bread and if we allow you to consume those you might come to actually eat bread today you go to the supermarket and you have kosher pasta bagels kosher pesach rolls kosher if the rabbis were alive today they would have said that's probably that certainly would be included in kitten yes according to that second reason fired and the contemporaneous fired him did not accept the prohibition of kittenius ashkenazim did accept his prohibition of kidneys one thing we all know all agree on is that kidney oils absolutely is not comets it is a stringency that we follow which means that if a person is sick they get a kidney a child can eat kidney us if kittenius makes contact with your utensils they're still kosher they should just be clean they don't need to be cashed you could eat in the home of asparty if you're invited for a meal and pesach they should tell you what's kitteny else for you to avoid don't eat it but you could eat off the rest of their dishes because kidneys is not we just treat it with this stringency kidneys is nullified even though it's also common it's prohibited even in the most smallest negligible amount kit neos because it's technically not is we apply bitto it does get it does get nullified it does get nullified so we have to get rid of the hummus in our homes not the kidneys in our homes you're allowed to own it kidney is not prohibited to own it's not prohibited to benefit from so if you're feeding your pet kittenios that might be your best option it's permissible if you're feeding your child because all they'll eat so many baby formulas have kidney os in them and that's permissible for a child or for an ill person that is permissible okay so that's the difference between what is clements and what is kidney we are looking for chametz in our home hamitz results instantly when the grains are exposed to hot and salted water or to water so we have to be very careful prohibited with anything why is it not important right now it's fascinating but we're not going to get into so how do we get rid of comments we employ three separate parallel methods number one the gemara seems to say the beginning of sakham that bittle would be enough let you in a little secret technically speaking from a biblical standpoint you just stand in the middle of your home you fold your arms and you say i hereby relinquish any ownership of any comments you're done preparing for pesach strictly speaking biblically speaking you're done bittel i hereby disown i disassociate comments it's not a problem in you it's a problem in me but we're over we're done i have no relationship with you i have no ownership over you we are done bitterly strictly speaking bitter hummus is good done i what about baara you're going to see the comments in your home you're not violating by era says you only violate by iran when it's your own comments you're seeing but that's not your comments anymore you've relinquished ownership however we employ a second method called vidiq we say that's not good enough and why is that not good enough what are we worried about that you really you can't break up that relationship with comets is so strong that you know what's going to happen that intimate donut that's in the cabinet that last one you were holding on to with the crumbs oliver shalom mr intimate mr anthem and allah so the best one we had a big discussion which is the best entrance but i still maintain it's the one with the crumble on top that even when you finish the donut stuff some extra in the box a little bonus for you not the chocolate ones the vanilla ones or whatever the other ones are anyway you see that emotional relationship with the donut so what's going to happen you did bittel you declared on air of pesach i don't own it i don't relate to you you're not mine but then you get really hungry and you really crave the donut and you discover and you find it there you may come to eat it so the rabbi said even though bittel technically can work don't rely on it because imagine if you can have comments all over your home comments you claim to not own anymore because you've declared it ownerless but then you get hungry for some you crave some you're going to come to eat so we employ a second method and the second method is called badikas search and destroy we go and we look all over our home to find the comments where it lives where it resides and we eliminate we destroy we purge it from our homes so why do we still do bitter if badika is enough why are we still doing bitter we have to cover our bases in case what what if we didn't find the piece of comments so what if there's still comments in our possession in our home that we didn't find now we're going to violate by your buds on pesach so we cover ourselves by doing bittle so we say hashem i'm looking all over my house without comments i want to get rid of it that ate sahara that ego that arrogance that inflated i'm getting inflation i'm getting rid of inflation i'm getting rid of it all over my home but you know what if i didn't find something i also declared ownerless so we employed both and then a third method the third method which we don't have time for but we've spoken about in the past past isn't it a harama a legal loophole but the third method is what happens to my scotch and whiskey collection very valuable very expensive so i'm not ready to get rid of it and i'm not really ready to declare it ownerless because i want to have it back after pesach so we came up with this legal loophole called selling how that works again also for another time so that is the principle the three-pronged attack that we are going to employ and engage in order to get rid of the comments in our lives now what do we have to look for where do we have to look for it this is what's critically important and this is what differentiates pesach cleaning from spring cleaning pesach has gotten away from us and what was purely voluntary what was a humra what were stringencies that people volunteered and they're entitled to if you want to drive yourself crazy wipe down every surface use a toothbrush and a toothpick clean out ceiling fans on a ladder and you were gonna be happy and skip to the seder and not blame anyone then do it no one's stopping you it's beautiful merit you're gonna go above and beyond the scrubbing and cleaning more power to you but if you wanna know what halacha demands versus what you are doing that's extra here we go here we go definitions of muhammad of sikh and of possession are all very clear areas and places where comets never brought do not need to be cleaned or checked everything i'm telling you right now is not from goldberg 2022 apologizing defensive to the people who are bitter about cleaning for pesach everything i'm telling you you have to search all the places that you are worried that enters the rooms of the home have to require a medica that's what you have to check any place that is entered so number one if you know that you have a place that did not enter do you need to check it no when is the last time you sat on your ceiling fan and had a sandwich when is the last time you sat on a windowsill and had a sandwich when is the last time you moved your oven out from its wall and sat in the space that it once sat and had a sandwich any area where hummus is not brought you do not need to check any area number two principle number two any area number two that will not be accessed over pesach need not be cleaned so your toaster oven your sandwich maker your blender your food processor you're not going to use them over pesach so you know how you prepare them for pesach every year amigos my minute of ranking on my mother my childhood memories of watching my mother with her toothpick and toothbrush and before she put the appliances away driving herself and everyone else crazy she's a holy woman doing holy work i'm saying this lash in her praise but with those appliances sitting for hours cleaning out and searching and finding and disassembling and assembling like the mishkan every little piece of hummus did she have to do that no why putting it away so you know what the preparation is of all those appliances my favorite part of getting ready for pesach because i do the kitchen i help out in the kitchen i take the toaster and i take the blender and i take the food processor i take everything and i put it in a cabinet you know how i get them all ready for pace off with one little piece of tape you put them in a cabinet you put them in a closet you put them in a box and you put a little piece of tape over it and they are now ready for pesach not from goldberg this is the anything that will not be accessed over pesach need not be cleaned and need not be prepared need not be checked put it away seal it and pledge that you're not going to access it that's true for any rumor space in your home if you have a room which is dirty but you don't plan on going in there over pesach a piece of tape over the door if you have a garage if you have a refrigerator or a backup freezer that you're not going to access or use a piece of tape the parts of the kitchen that are not going to be used on pesach you know how you prepare them for pesach piece of tape that's it so in other words unlike the way many of us were raised or thought was that you have to empty and wipe down every shelf and every armoire and every cabinet and every dresser and every closet all you need to do is walk around with the tape tape is your best friend on air of pesach tape is absolutely your best friend in the entire world any area that you're not accessing you need to simply tape up and it is prepared and ready for p i is that a cooler a leniency some newfangled idea for the people who don't really want to be religious that is the halacha that is the halacha now if you want to empty out and wipe everything down spring cleaning that gives you some joy that makes you feel satisfies your ocd tendency then feel free just don't blame the rabbis or torah don't become a shemata and don't be fabishna and don't become the russia at the seder mob all in the name of doing that spring cleaning so now let's take a tour of our house any cabinet closet room that will not be entered can simply be closed a piece of tape and the kitchen cabinet drawer cover will not be used need not be cleaned any appliance food processor sandwich maker mixer bread machine need not be cleaned just needs to be put away just needs to be put away so let's start with the bedrooms bedrooms these comets brought into that bedroom in many cases yes people like to snack late at night people like to bring food into their room in many cases yes and it needs to be cleaned and you need to look and check and make sure there aren't crumbs even negligible small amounts hummus is also even a nothing the mission brewer goes out of his way to say that if you have little children at home all bets are off if you have young children at home then all bets are off where's this quote from mishnuburu because when you have young children there is no place that hummus doesn't enter hamas is brought everywhere at all times however if you don't have young children at home then you know which areas in your home it's entered in which they didn't you have rooms and spaces where you are confident never went so you do not need to drive yourself crazy so when when we look through what i do summits at night and when yahweh really turned tremendous credit prepares and cleans the house for pesach she goes into each room and she opens the drawers she moves the clothing a little bit aside and confirms that there's no sandwich confirms that there's no pretzel confirms that there's no cookie or piece of cake or leftover hamantaschen does she take all the clothing out of every drawer wipe it all down no i don't think she does she doesn't need to she does she doesn't need to and you don't need to in the closet do you have to go no you have to generally look over each area areas that you know comets never went and give a survey of that area to confirm that hamas is not present there and it is now prepared for pesa you have a bookshelf with books bookcases with books i have a large library to home i am not in the business of opening book halo vi i open those farm all the time the overwhelming majority is farm and the have deal books and bookcases in our homes they read once in a lifetime let alone they're not opened every year we don't generally hide pretzels sandwiches and cookies in the books so if you learned a particular farm you know as farm that came to your shabba's table and you generally love to learn your parties foreign while eating the khala or the dessert or nibbling and finishing up those delicious blondies so then you need to check those few books that you do that with but the books that you know weren't open the entire year the bookcases that you know were not accessed the entire year you don't have to take out all the books and wipe down all the bookshelves and rifle through all the books so we've just eliminated enormously enormously we have just narrowed down the cleaning process from a survey of the areas where comets never entered not needing to take out ceiling fans i remember climbing ladders and ceiling fans and wiping down ceiling blades i remember moving appliances out from the wall why don't you need to do that crawl spaces crawl spaces if you're climbing on a ladder to clean a ceiling fan or taking a toothpick your toaster food processor if you're scrubbing grout with a toothbrush if you're emptying wiping dresses closets linen pantries crawl spaces if you're shaking out books that haven't been opened in years you are doing spring cleaning you are not preparing for pesach stop blaming the rabbis by the way any food that's not categorized as edible meaning a dog would not eat it is not called hummus so the fact that behind your oven or behind your refrigerator in some space there might be some little crumb that made its way if your dog would look at you and go i'm not eating that then that's not called hummus hummus is only that which is edible and edible to a dog you don't have to check for crumbs that are less than a gazias if they're dirty or soiled and wouldn't be edible to a human mishna bureau submission number explicit mission guru you do not need to check for crumbs that are less than a kazias less than an olive that are dirty and soiled and would not be edible to a human so what is halakha demand what are we looking for what is this mission and why do i contend it takes only a few hours to prepare your whole house no matter how big it is we're going room to room confirming there's no comments larger than 30 grams and edible that's what we're looking for that there's no hummus larger than 30 grams and still edible and that can be accomplished in a few hours and you don't need to break your back you don't need to hurt your knees you don't need to climb and you don't need to bend and you don't need any small sharp instruments so we need to all be very careful you know why because the does say this does say that we need to come to the seder table and enjoy writes you have to be happy and joyful and pleasant to be around you have to have a good and positive energy this is a positive biblical commandment you're going to ache and practice and moan and complain and be miserable you're going to forfeit and violate a positive biblical commandment of islam and says this is not a male a man this is true for women as well everyone needs to come happy and joyful and positive and so on and so forth so to clean our rooms to get them ready that is what we need to do that is what we need to do that is what we're looking for that is we have to go around so before we get to the kitchen any questions any questions before we get to the kitchen let me just apply this in terms of some of these specific spaces as we said the major appliances don't clean them put them away major cabinets or areas with a lot of helmets don't clean them put a piece of tape over them same is true in a toy room we have a playroom a lot of people have young children at home have a playroom and you can have comments that enters playroom because again with kids when they bring food into that playroom it can get into all kinds of things plato is clements itself so the same thing applies in the playroom leave out a few toys for your children or grandchildren to play with that are cleaned or that you clean and everything else shove in a box put a piece of tape over it and your playroom is ready for pesach don't drive yourself crazy don't be ocd do not create mental health challenges in the name of religion do not put away tape up and you are ready to go floors and and carpets vacuum i hope people vacuum their carpets regularly so just your rotation a vacuum in your carpet once a week twice a week however often you but just vacuum your carpet before pesach and don't bring comets in there after it was vacuumed sweep the floor and don't bring comments after it was swept dressers do you normally have a sandwich behind the dresser in your bedroom it's not an area the comments has brought then an area of the comments goes so there's no reason you need to be moving it moreover unless you intend on moving the dresser to have a slice of matzo pizza in there on halamoid then you don't need to you're not going to be accessing it on yantef so you do not need to be moving appliances or moving furniture or climbing a ladder or going down on your knees or going down on your knees we'll get to the kitchen in a moment but books we spoke about toys we spoke about couch now you should between the cushions of the couch there is hummus it should be cleaned anyway that's not spring cleaning that's mentioned kite clean whatever's there anyway and again that shouldn't take too long move the cushions and vacuum vacuum the floor sweep the floor clean the cushions open each drawer dresser and look through it and make sure confirm there's no comments tell you what else you're allowed to do you can engage your family to participate in getting ready you ask each child you're in charge of your bedroom i want you to fulfill this mitzvah give them a little spiritual pep talk comments represents we're going to search for it what do you need to work on this year how do we want to be better and now go look through your things you're not going to trust trust and verify as they say so with your children you're going to engage them but trust and verify so we're going to have a mitzvah called badika's comments i do that when i search our entire house i open every drawer but still doesn't take me that long how long does it take to open a drawer and look yes there's no sandwich yes there's no pretzel yes there's no blondie yes there's no cookie how long does it take open each drawer look through a little bit glance look through the items sitting on top of the dresser or on the nightstand and make sure there's bahamas there that's it that's all one needs to do so that is preparing the house and now we go on tour of the kitchen questions about the house right now okay hold on one second crumbs that are inedible even by a dog are not hammets even if they're bigger than a kazaas so if they're inedible to a dog they're not even if they're bigger than a gaza is shocking or tough then base if bays and if they're less than a kazias and dirty and soiled and inedible to a human then they're not humans so the difference between the edible to a dog and edible to a human is whether they're smaller or bigger than a cause yes windex is it edible so if it's inedible it's not hammers even if it has an ingredient correct if it's inedible and it cannot be converted into something edible then it's not comments yes we'll get there we'll get there hold on anything about the house okay let's rush right to the kitchen you've all been here with me before so let's move right away let's look at the kitchen where should we start in the kitchen so first of all again the best part of the kitchen the most fun in the kitchen is your piece of tape you roll the tape first thing to do is walk around and say what am i not allocating for pesach so we have a cabinet or two that we're going to put our peso things in that needs to be wiped down and that you should put a piece of paper or towel or something on it but if you're not going to access it for pesach then put a piece of tape tape is the greatest friend you ever had major appliances go in box tape them up cabinets taped up so your whole kitchen right away now eighty percent of your kitchen's ready for pay stuff just because you had a roll tape eighty 80 of your kitchen is ready for pesach what about the cabinets you're going to use empty them out wipe them down put some paper towel good that's the cabinets sinks it depends what your sink is made out of sinks can be captured let's give a quick primer on cash we believe tom kiker not only do we have extant physical present pieces of food which are prohibited so hammets we said is also but we believe no same time there's a concept that food can impart taste to utensils you can have a sparkling clean utensil but if something it was cooked in it an imparted taste into it it still has the status of that food even if the food is not traceably there even if the food is not there sparkling clean pot but the cot pot was used to clean meat to cook meat you can't use the pot to now cook dairy why because tom kicker it's no saint tom it parts tom kicker tom taste is like the icker is like the very thing that it was however we also have another principle 24 hours after a taste was imparted into a utensil it's considered stale it's no longer there taste cannot be potent taste does not last 24 hours after 24 hours it's no sentamlev gum now it's no longer a positive pleasant taste it's no saint tom lifgam which means strictly speaking from a torah perspective what do you have to do to make your non-kosher pot kosher wait 24 hours that's it by waiting as long as the sparkling clean whatever taste had been imparted to it is gone what do you have to do to make your meat pot dairy or pyruv wait 24 hours strictly speaking but we don't rely on that it's called the benio or eno banyama within 24 hours of the beniomo more than 24 hours of innova why don't we rely on that we don't rely on that for very good reason most people have more than one pot our kitchen is filled with utensils and pots and cutlery so imagine if you had a different clock and stopwatch for every one of them because there's a lot of steak if it was really 23 hours and 58 minutes and you thought you could now cook dairy in your meat pot you're going to have basil you're going to have comets so because we can't really keep track of those 24 hours we don't rely on that biblical pro that biblical definition of 24 hours aino banyamo so what we do in addition is we caution however part of our strategy of capturing is waiting 24 hours because we also can reverse the status just by waiting and then on top of that we cash her so in cash ring we have different systems that we use depending on how the utensil absorbed the taste proportional to how it absorbed the taste is the method that we use to purge it of the taste so if it absorbs the taste with liquid we use liquid to get rid of it so for example if you cook the corned beef in a pot boiling in water so how did the paprika meet through the medium of water how will you get the meat taste out of the pot hagala the medium of water you'll put it in boiling water however in oven if you used fire or heat to impart taste barbecue then you need fire or heat in order to get the taste out so no santa so quebolo the way that it absorbed is the way it's purged how does the walls of your microwave absorb taste not through liquid nor through heat but how steam the microwave works somehow i explain it to you another time except i can't even do that because i don't understand it but somehow the microwave works not with heat and there's no liquid but steam so how do you get the flavor the taste out of the walls of the microwave steam cabolo cockpolto however absorbed it tasted so that is the principle those are the principles of kashring that's how we kosher there's one last thing we have a rule in koshering we have a rule in kashrus called bittel bittle means that most foods at a ratio of 60 to 1 are nullified they're no longer discernible they're no longer contributing so we treat them like but they're not there how do we come to 60 to 1 and that doesn't apply to everything there are different ratios for different foods but when it comes to non-kosher 60 to 1 is the ratio so if you put something something a drop of milk fell into your challenge and it was a ratio of 60 to 1 you're good to go by the way you're good to go not only that you can eat that challenge you're good to go that you should eat that challenge the says what if a person says you know i'm so mahmir i'm such a holy roller i don't want to eat the challenge that a drop of milk fell into even if there was a thousand to one i'll give it to my non-jewish housekeeper are you more righteous because you do that kiss kaichuba says you're a cofer cofer you're a heretic a heretic it's an incredibly strong language it's episode juba writes you know why who said you can't have milk and meat god he's the same god that said if it was 60 to 1 you're okay you're good to go so guess what now you're trying to be more religious than god if you're trying to be more religious than god you're not serving god you're worshiping yourself you're a heretic you're a heretic don't be more righteous than god god said it's prohibited and god says it's the way is permissible don't be holier or more righteous thank god okay so those are principles that are critically important now we can take a tour of our kitchen how did the how does your sink absorb comet's taste through what method liquid what happened you had dishes in your sink and you ran the hot water over them when you're washing the sink that's how your sink absorbed taste how are you going to get it out liquid how do you kosher your sink by pouring pouring boiling water over the surface of your sink now that assumes the surface of your sink is a casual surface not every material that absorbs can purge some materials don't absorb some absorbent can be purged some absorb but can't be perched not all materials are created equal so metal for example absorbs and can be purged earthenware absorbs but can't be perched glass doesn't absorb or purge that's what we pass again the whole year you could use the same glass from eating dairy if you have a pyrex dish you can cook you can cook a meat casserole and clean it and then cook a cheese casserole glass does not absorb or purge however ashkenazim are strict for pesach sparred them or not svaram will use the same glass for meat for hummus and fur and for pesach so depending on the material metal glass earthenware they're each different so if your sink is made from metal a stainless steel sink that absorbs and purges you could caution it how do you casher it clean it wait 24 hours and then pour boiling water over the surface of it in order to kasher the water has to be boiling shaken ark uses the lotion of mala a babos that's an adamatopia alamata p is a word that sounds like what it is a babuo sounds like bubbling about us bubbling the water is not just hot when is the water ready to kosher with not just when it puts off steam it has to be bubbling blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah so when it's that hot you take the pot now people make a mistake whether it's the counter or the sink they think you can splash the water and you start it from here problem is when you do that when the water first hits the surface it hits it's hot what happens by the time it gets to the end of the sink or counter it's cold water you're not cashering you have to walk with it and you have to caution it over the entire surface you have to be spilling it over the whole surface and not just splashing or running with it it's not tisha cabana tahara it's rather your cash ring if you understand what i'm saying don't worry you're walking with the pot and you have to cash it over the entire surface so depending on what type of sink you have will determine if it's a an earthenware sink well they call that porcelain sink you cannot caster it if it's metal stainless steel you can depending on the material i highly recommend we today are very blessed making pesach today the age of technology hashem has helped us incredibly your phone and your apps are your best friend right after tape your roll of tape is your best friend and your second best friend is your phone with its apps if you do not have the crc app and the starkey app and the ou app those three apps app application download them on your phone or if you have the internet go to the website or if you have a friend or the library print them out because we are blessed to live in a time where you have incredible incredible resources if you have the book they're great to read i tried to memorize it over shabbos if you have the app you're better because you can search it as a search function whatever you're looking for but the incredible leaders we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the crc i say this every year star kou are invaluable they're wonderful i find the crc's most user-friendly i find it's the most moderate opinion and i highly highly endorse it crcosher.org or the crc app just hit the pesach 2022 and you've got everything shopping guides endless cash ring guides and lists ingredient guides endless you've got everything i'm not just saying that so you don't call me although that's definitely a huge benefit of it but you can look up and for yourself find almost everything you need so as we're going to go through the kitchen you want to know is my sink crusherable or not say you know i had an incredible kitchen designer who came up with some material no one ever heard of we imported it from italy crc heard of it look at their list of sinks and they'll tell you whether you can cash yours or not materials granite stone wood formica marble this incredible number of counter tops today crc's got a list of every one of them and a beautiful spreadsheet can you cash it or not so your sink you're going to clean it well leave it 24 hours how do you define his leave in 24 hours means that no hot liquid hit it what's going to happen your husband or child is going to go into that sink and they're going to put something down not realizing you've started the 24 hour countdown clock and they're going to pour something cold down the sink or put their used cereal bowl in the sink and does that restart the clock i get this question every year multiple times a year and it's always about a more on husband that's why i feel comfortable saying it the answer is it depends if they put something hot down or porcelain hot in it restarts the clock however if it was cold you can wipe it down and the clock continues and goes the minute in our home is who did i tell you is your best friend tape a big x goes over the sink when the clock begins you have to be a huge super to not see the big x over the whole sink when the countdown begins the clock starts do not put anything in that sink for the 24 hours so clean it well wait 24 hours yeah you could do that too put something over it you clean it well wait 24 hours and then cash for the sink by pouring boiling water in the sink that is the sink don't forget to also cash or the knobs of the sink they need to be cleaned very well don't forget to casher the spout of the sink and then many things today have the pull down hose to reach hard to reach places first of all you have to turn it over to kasher the spout some of the guides say that if you have a filter on the end you should replace it for pesach if it can unscrew you can pour it put it in a pot of boiling water and cashew for pesach if it's a filter that i don't know how humid is getting through there or why that's such a concern if you have the hose be very careful it has the hose by definition is made up of small areas make sure they're cleaned well and pour the boiling water over wee paskin it's a big debate can you cash in rubber or plastic you can cash your metal you cannot crush a ceramic can you caution plastic is a big debate we pass in the ou the crc pascan you can cash or plastic hard plastic hard plastic can be captured so the hose of the sink some say better not to pull it down and use it to hold pesach or you can pull it down and you can cash for that pour the boiling water over the surface of the sink over the knobs over the spout over the rubber hose that is coming out of the sink as as well okay any questions about the sink yes oh good good some have a special cashewing pot there's a minute you saw some of the special cashewing pot however however the halacha is and many rely on any pot that hasn't been used in 24 hours pot a milk pot of fleshy pot any pot that hasn't been used in 24 hours can can be used for cashew okay sinks yes you should clean the crevices of the sink before you casher correct because otherwise when you pour that boiling water you're just going to continue to impart the taste of the chamois here's another rule though i don't know how it would work in your sink but any area which is hard to reach or you're struggling with cleaning this will be very relevant on the accordion plastic around your refrigerator door is spray a caustic spray because remember what we said if something's inedible even to a dog it's not comets so if you have a spray of something caustic something which will make it inedible something poised not poisonous i'm not trying to kill anyone in your kitchen but something caustic and inedible you can make it you could take away its identity as humans identity crisis so you could take away its identity as christ as hamitz and then so so in a hard-to-reach place i don't know if you should do that in your sink but you do need to clean it well before pouring the boiling water let's go right over the not over the sink what's over the sink nothing let's go to countertops the natural next place to go clean the countertops well again 24 hours nothing hot can be put on a countertop for 24 hours pour boiling water along the surface of the countertop you can't again run and splash it you have to walk with it and and hit the surface as best as possible each of the surface areas of the countertop with the hot water as you go what counter tops can be captured for mica we pass skin can be captured now a lot of formica has a lot of scratch and crevices maybe then it's best to cover it because it's hard to get in there but if the formica is fairly smooth it can be cautious clean well wait 24 hours pour boiling water granite can be captured even wood can be captured but it's complicated often has scratches and cuts in it so it's difficult if you're either concerned that you're not going to kosher well one of the principles in the locals of kasharing is that if it's delicate and you feel you're not going to kosher it well then it's not considered casher so if you know yourself and you're going to be so delicate when we redid our kitchen several years ago because we had a different pipe break when we did our kitchen several years ago and the next year pesach i was all prepared to cash in the kitchen as usual my wife told me not over her dead body why because when you splash that water everywhere it doesn't just hit the granite countertop it runs down into the cabinets and now it can warp the cabinet doors and the cabinets and everything else so that was the last year we cashed our countertops with boiling water but we covered the countertops and i want to tell you right now this is just a personal editorial comment not a halal comment when i was growing up we had a very we had a white formica kitchen and they we had specially made for pesach um hard boards that were made to fit the countertops and they were covered with like a blue like a royal blue like trayless blue um paper that what's it called contact paper on them and you know someone's job we cleaned the kitchen when we were ready to convert the kitchen to transfer the kitchen we carried those up from the basement we don't have basements here and the kids you know we loved it it's like a puzzle which piece fit in which place and it was great but you know what the result was for the week of pesach the kitchen looked different when you looked at the kitchen that week you knew it was a pesach kitchen and moze paisa when we reversed it and you cleaned and you put everything away and you wiped it down and who is going to take it off and put it back downstairs in the basement all of a sudden the kitchen looked like the rest of the year kitchen again and we now have that in our kitchen again there's a side benefit it's just an editorial comment this is not halacha but i think it's a beautiful benefit that your kitchen looks different your home feels different so we did the same thing we made semi-permanent and it's a puzzle and you fit it on top and you store it during the year and you there's no hot water no burning yourself no warped kitchen cabinets no worries that i really hit the surface but you've got to cash out the countertops and the backsplash because people put pots down all the time that are hot that hit a backsplash so you've gotta not only cash or whether it's with boiling water or with covering you have to cover or casher both the countertop and the backsplash if you want to know about your particular countertop whatever material it's made out of quartz granite stone doesn't crc's got it all look in there check it that is the method of caution we've done sinks we've done counter tops what's next let's go to the microwave how they cache our microwave we already said now it's very important to know that a microwave has glass into the glass tray ashkenazim cannot cash your glass we follow you don't cross your glass so the first thing you do is take the tray out how do you caution that tray by putting it in a box with a piece of tape over it it's out you can't cash through the tray take the glass tray out how do you cache the rest of the microwave it's got to be cleaned well usually there's a little fan a little grid over in a microwave particularly that area clean well if you're concerned did you really clean it well or not spray something in it clean it well leave it 24 hours again protect yourself from the morons in your family a little piece of tape over it will help them remember not to use it for the 24 hours and then microwave safe styrofoam bowl or cup filled with water in the chamber of the microwave put the microwave on long enough to produce and fill the chamber with steam 10 minutes 12 minutes in the microwave then importantly fill it up again move it to another spot and do it again why because whatever spot the microwave safe place was sitting on is not casher so you've got to do it twice in order to hit the second place that's a casual micro clean wall wait 24 hours and heat up water in a microwave safe utensil until the chamber fills with steam then move it and do it again so that you casher the spot where that utensil was as well and your microwave is now kosher what if it's a convection microwave then you have to kosher it the same way you do in oven so we'll move to the oven anything else about the microwave no good yes no no it's not cautioned well enough plastic wrap the plate's got to come out plate's got to come out how do you caution the oven we will talk about in a moment yes it's a big discussion uh the oven how do you cash in an oven if you have a self-clean oven then you turn on a self-clean cycle self-clean hits a temperature which will obliterate anything its path why do we distinguish between self-clean and non-self-clean because we have two types of cash ring with fire we said cabolo polto you purge taste the same way it absorbed taste so there are two ways that you kasher what we call libon kal and libun hammer libon gomur libenkal is a light fire versus a strict obliterating fire so when you put your oven on its highest setting that's a liben cow when you run the self-clean cycle that's liben gummer when you here's one difference normally with koshering we wait 24 hours to add that extra layer of protection because after 24 hours everything is kosher anyway ain't nobody no sentiment but if you're using liben gum or you do not need to wait 24 hours liben gomer is so strong it obliterates anything in its path you do not need to use liben gummer so if you run a self-clean cycle you do not need to wait 24 hours and you don't need to clean the oven well because by running the self-clean cycle and if you don't believe me put a wooden spoon in the oven and run a soft clean cycle and you will find a pile of ash on the bottom of your oven that wooden spoon will not survive a soft clean cycle it obliterates anything in its path so a self-clean oven cycle you do not need to wait 24 hours you can also if you want to by the way kosher the grates of your stovetop you can put them in the oven when you run the soft clean cycle and cash the grates that way the grates if you have a gas oven not a uh glass top stove um by putting them in the oven itself what if you have don't have a self-clean oven or you're afraid to run some people don't want to run the soft clean oven they don't want to run it till the end because it can burn down your heart it's so hot it's unbelievable the whole kitchen is hot so then you clean the oven well wait 24 hours and put it on the highest setting for an hour clean it well wait 24 hours and put it on the high setting for an hour that is the oven that's the microwave and that is the oven those are the countertops and those are the sinks we move over to the stove top yes right so even a three hour would be enough if it hits that highest setting and stays on it for a little while it's enough yeah um let's talk about the stovetop stovetop so the old gas stove top that at a pilot light you casher by covering all the area underneath the grates and you caution the grates by leaving the each the stove top on the highest setting for 20 minutes all the fire is going to automatic kosher the grate on top of it you cover everything else and you're good to go that was the old days when we lived up north that was the easiest way to cash her and that is the proper way to cash for a gas top stove what about a electric stove with the electric coils so similarly not glass top the electric top i don't know if they make those anymore you turn each of the coils on until they turn red glow red they're castered and you cover the area in between the tin foil including the knobs or you can kasher in our home we take the knobs off and we put them in a pot of boiling water we caution them we cover the area behind the knobs but the knobs itself you can you can casher lastly what about a glass top stove glass top stove glass top stove every year the agencies come out with different ideas and suggestions but i'm going to stick with what we've said all along that i spoke to my rebellion and this is what we do turn the burners each on high till they glow and they're captured don't do all four at once because it's incredible heat you can crack your glass top stove so do two at a time one at a time 10 minutes 12 minutes until they glow and that area is cautious when the whole when they're cool don't do it when all the burners are hot and this is complicated how to heat the water to do it but pour water over the surface of your glasstop stove even though we pass constringently that glass can't be cautious even oscar nazim technically hold the ken so even though we don't rely on that for pesach here it's an additional layer and then most importantly try not to put anything down on pesach in the area in between the burners so the pot can go on the burner the pot i get asked this every year even if the circumference of your pot is bigger than the area of the burner it can go on the burner but try not to put down the spoon or the lid or anything in between the areas of the burners several people sent me this year apparently i don't know which scientists were working on this but they came up with like it looks like a towel that you could put down on a glass top stove and put a pot on top of that it doesn't it's not dangerous doesn't it's not flammable and you can put the pot on top of that which i guess is an additional layer i guess it's going to add a humra if you buy that and it's pasta you still need to crush the glass top stove but it's an added layer of putting it on top of that so that is how you cushion the glass top stove as well do not cover your glass top stove you will break it it will crack no matter what anyone writes or tells you don't cover it been there done that don't do it so leave the burners on high till they glow and they're kosher an additional stringency pour boiling water over the surface of the glass and not when all the four burners are hot or you'll crack a glass top stove most importantly try not to put anything down in the areas between your burners on pesach itself okay good last yes that's why all of this is long before glass top stoves nobody was talking about there's another major appliance in your kitchen that has a lot of glass in it and nobody talked about how are you allowed to kasha namely your oven door so you see that we are relying on and it is possible and it's a big discussion why i said leave aside the lundus in the background of it but that's how you cache the glass top yeah you don't have to let it wait for 24 hours stove top you should clean it well leave it for 24 hours first yeah stop top you do awesome the only thing you don't wait 24 hours is something you're doing liben gomer on which is the self-clean oven everything else you need to wait 24 hours correct correct but everything else you have to wait 24 hours no you don't run the self clean twice no no the racks can be captured in the self clean and in the oven itself correct some of the stringers do to cover the racks for pesach if it wasn't self-clean but right right no right because that's steam this is heat so that's why it's different you don't need to you don't need to do it twice yes until they glow red they say 10-12 minutes till you see them actually glowing red so they would singe a fire correct that's it dishwasher can you cash your dishwasher maybe again some have stainless steel dishwashers we said you could even cash your plastic hard plastic but a dishwasher is very difficult and complicated to casher it's filled with a filter on the bottom and grates and crevices and small and cracks and racks and it's very very hard so some say it can be i recommend you don't i know that's not pleasant for pesach but i think it's very complicated and difficult to casher for pesach and i recommend not cashing it if you're following the opinions that you do so again clean it well especially on the bottom the filter and the great well wait 24 hours and run it on a cycle carrick can you caution your kerg machine you're an espresso machine the answer is yes what you do is clean it wait 24 hours take out the area that holds the cup with the pin put it in boiling water and then run a cup through the kerrig and a coach lapays a cup through the kerrig and now your carrog is kosher for pesach do your cups need to be kosher for pesach we'll skip right to ingredients for a moment the answer is yes i spoke to ray fishbein the head of the crc last week and he told me some extra trade i don't even know some ingredient that is in a lot of these k-cups so you have to look at i think the only pesach guide may have a list of the cups aren't going to say oup but we know they've investigated which ones are okay and only use the ones that they are confirming are okay when it comes to the when it comes to the carry uh what else is in your kitchen that you might want to cash for a hot water urn can you cash in your hot water urn do you need a separate one for pesach so did comets ever make contact with your hot water urn if you never bought if you never brought bread or comets to the hot water urn then it's okay then you don't need a new one if you did or you washed it with vinegar some people do or washed it with comet's things then it's a problem and you should get a piece of hot water urn your hot plate your plata if it's glass if it's a glass warming tray it cannot be castered if it's that plata you clean it well wait 24 hours plug it in and leave it in for an hour and then cover it with tin foil and you can use the same one for pesach yeah underneath that should also be cleaned very well yeah because there's steam that goes up there and then comes back down it doesn't need to be covered should be cleaned very well it should be cleaned very well covering it can be dangerous yeah yeah the hood yeah you can't cut you can't cover it a regular coffee maker meaning like a glass pot and so on um probably can't use i don't know if it can be cashed and it would need to be cautious because not all coffee is automatically kosher for pesach and yeah the glass pot is is can't be cashed unless you're sparedy unless you're farty a lot of instant coffee on pesach um what else in the kitchen hot plate and the uh refrigerator thank you we didn't talk about the refrigerator the refrigerator refrigerator should be emptied wiped down cleaned there's a minute you straw to put something down in it be careful it's perforated or you'll break your refrigerator observe the minute by putting down some paper towels but you don't need to drive yourself crazy by you know arts and crafts project of taping together paper towel to make sure that every square millimeter is covered it's a minute to keep covering it but once it's cleaned it's cleaned freezer should be defrosted because if you have bread that got attached to the frost on the side of the freezer so the minute it gets to the frosted clean it well and again the most important part of the refrigerator the accordion door rubber door around it clean it well if it's hard you're driving yourself crazy spray it with a caustic spray and you are okay you don't need to clean under the oven behind the oven behind the refrigerator or anything like that no not wipe it down just wipe it down yeah and again anything that you're not using on pace just tape up 80 90 of your kitchen you're just going to tape up you're not even going to clean at all yeah that should be taped up for pesach but what about a warming drawer so the crc are the heroes on this one others disagree with the crc says you can cash for a warming drawer with a sterno clean it leave it 24 hours heat a sterno in the in the warming drawer and leave it open a crack you have to allow air to escape and by doing that your your warming draw will be kosher to pesach and you'll be so happy you did it that is the warming drawer juicer juicer i don't know how do you uh how does comments ever go in a juicer or do you must clean it with hummus things though does it get cleaned with cold water and soap um i don't know cashewing a juicer let's see is it neo u's beautiful picture here sink faucet dishwasher hot water urn tea kettle somebody asked me about the kumkum um tea kettle nitsagala pouring boiling water on it stove stainless steel sink ceramic sink faucet microwave um i don't see it talking about i'll try to look into the uh the juicer the juicer um somebody online is asking about steaming countertops every year i talk about this every year i suggest somebody should come out with something and every year nobody does so people try to go to bed bath and beyond and buy one of those clothes steamers and think you can caution it you cannot kasha with steam if the taste was absorbed with liquid steam is not liquid so the only time you could use a steamer is if the steam when it hits the counter is producing a liquid and the liquid is hot yaza lettuce bow industrial steamers produce steam that when it hits the surface is liquid and the liquid remains that temperature but the overall majority of steamers do not produce that so i say every year somebody should create a steamer for cashewing for pesach that will meet the criteria and get a hack sure and everyone can use it to the best of my knowledge nobody has and so i do not recommend using a steamer to kasha some people pour water along there i'm not even going to say this out loud because i don't want anyone to try because it's crazy dangerous so i'm not going to say it with an iron or a steamer and heat the water that's on the surface but don't even try it at home very dangerous don't do it either pour the boiling water eroy or cover the counter is better i think we covered cleaning the house and i think we covered cashewing in the kitchen correct yes yeah i think that's fine the bottom is on legs touching the sink it's not actually touching the base of the sink you're okay it has to be meaningful enough that taste is considered a clipper that is not going through it so tin foil would not be enough tinfoil would not be enough it needs to be a harder plastic or or something else some board material or something like that okay any other kitchen questions yes oh good question excellent so some of the minute not to sell hamitz gamer some of the practice that they don't sell real actual comments so you need to know whether something is real comments or not and crc very conveniently has a list because we don't always know what's real comments what's not real comments um that's a stringency some have strictly speaking many sell all hummus so if you're putting it you can even in your let's say your second refrigerator people have a backup refrigerator so you want to put your unopened bottles or your non kosher pasta ketchup your mustard in there you can cover a shelf tape it cover it well and you're good to go you could also cover it cover the shelf as long as you won't access it and you're not accessing it then you are good to go with it you're good to go with it anything else in the kitchen yes no no great question you do not need to let's talk about medicines and cosmetics if you're cashering your sink and you're only going to do flake shakes do you need a sink insert no because now you caution your sink it's param and you're designating it as meat so you're good okay let's talk about medicines cosmetics and toiletries and here again we go to the crc when i was a child we used to get a book in the mail and it's great of allah who authored it it was a great rev but also had a crazy list of crazy everything about everything and here is the crc bar hashem is normalcy all varieties of blush body sub conditioners creams eyeshadow eyeliner foundation ink lotions mascara nail polish or women's pink shampoo stick deodorant it's like there's been a helmet are permitted to use on pesach why regardless of the ingredients inside them why not because they're not edible to be humid it has to be edible nobody eats blush body soap conditioner cream eyeshadow eyeliner foundation lotion mascara nail polish ointment shampoo stick deodorant nobody eats any of those things so you do not need to go with a book to cvs and buy special for pesach and drive yourself crazy and look for these types of you do not need to what about cologne and perfume oh so here there's a little bit deodorant different liquid deodorant cologne perfume hairspray shaving lotion sunscreen and wipes have an ingredient called denatured alcohol denatured alcohol um can be edible can be edible and therefore it's a problem i won't say her name every year i say her name people a former presidential candidate's wife who was an alcoholic would drink perfume and drink liquid deodorant the addiction was so strong that when she was denied and deprived actual alcohol it's edible an alcoholic who's desperate will drink perfume because the denatured alcohol in it yeah so these need to be confirmed to none of comets so again anything inedible which includes all the other things the soap the blush the shampoo and so on they are automatically kosher pesach because by definition they don't have hummus perfume and and spray deodorant might contain and therefore one should confirm what about lipstick who tried to sneak in lipstick anna early on lipstick mouthwash and toothpaste which contain comments should not be used starkey has a great list online crc has a list online uh star dash k crcosher.org and ou kosher.org um they all have great lists of each of these things so that's when it comes to cosmetics and toiletries we used to drive ourselves crazy we do not and should not um with certain exceptions get a new toothbrush make sure that you're using toothpaste and mouthwash that are confirmed to not have comets but most of them do not lipstick you do not need to buy a new lipstick you can cut off the end of your lipstick and use the lipstick as long as it meets the the criteria and you're good to go what about medicines all medicine no matter its ingredients are kosher for pesach if you take a medicine that a doctor thinks you should be taking you must continue to take it vitamins are not medicine the reason by the way moshe held that medicine is not food you don't make a bracha before you take medicine not consider eating onion kipper you can swallow two tylenol and you've not violated eating liquid is different liquid is different or if it's coated with something that is a taste some people like to suck on the advil before they swallow them to taste good advil is coated with a taste or they make certain medicines that have a taste that might be different but medicine if you swallow it without sucking on it if you swallow the medicine whole that is not called the food and it's not called eating and it's not subject to the rules of humans so all pull or pill or non-chewable tablet medication with or without hammets that one swallows is permitted vitamin food supplements don't necessarily fall in that category sometimes the doctor tells you you have to take that vitamin which for you as a medicine and sometimes it's a vitamin it's a nice vitamin that you take so when it's a nice vitamin that you take it might be a food and you shouldn't take it unless you know it doesn't have hummus if it's a vitamin that the doctor said you need that vitamin you're short on calcium you're short on vitamin d you're short on whatever it is that for you it's a medicine you need it then you swallow it and it's non-chewable then it's okay liquid chewable medications contain kidney can be taken by somebody who's sick as we talked about kidneys earlier on but an otherwise healthier person should um should only do it if they know that it doesn't have kidneys okay that is medicine and cosmetics and toiletries any ingredient questions now when it comes to preparing and cooking and cleaning yeah wipe it down clean it but not for pesach just because yeah you have to drive yourself crazy that's inedible it's not comments so for the sake of your food you want to wipe it out and clean it down but don't drive yourself crazy any other questions one of the best benefits in the crc on their on their app under pesac they have shopping lists click that and on shopping list they have this incredible before the app came out you haven't used the princess when she went shopping wherever she went the shopping guide and conveniently they have either a check mark an x mark or a triangle check mark means acceptable without pesach certification so for example air freshener adhesive bandages this is in alphabetical order as you can tell blush body wash braces bleach is all okay bags brown paper bags are fine um charcoal oven cleaner these are all okay then they have an x what's not acceptable for pesach for example cbd oil is not okay beans bean sprouts or kidney us they're not okay uh coriander seeds are kidney os um plato has actual comets in it they have an x and then they have a triangle which is that it's okay if it has a pesach certification so for example cheese baking powder sodas oil orange juice they need to be kosher for pesach so if you want to know does this need to be kosher pesach is it fine without it or is it never kosher pesach print out your shopping guide or carry it on your app and it will tell you everything that you want to know i know you're all tempted to ask me right now what's the status of toms this year what's the status of oil this year what's the status of water this year look in the crc shopping guide i will not be your crutch all right i'll be a crutch what are your questions yeah from um what's coastal i don't see it on the oh if you don't see it then it means it's not but kirkland salmon from costco is okay so you're good to go if it's not there then you can't assume it's okay i don't know i didn't see it apple juice crc just says has to have kosher for pesach and the ou used to list it that's why it's good to compare and contrast because they overlap a lot these agencies yes the barbecue can be captured it's a little complicated the grates need lebron go more so you need a blow torch to kosher the grates and the rest of the barbecue can be um cleaned and then you turn the you cover it and leave it on its highest setting leaving kyle or you could just get a new grape but you still need to cash out the rest of the micro the rest of the barbecue with heat yes yeah yeah question [Music] wegmans is a supermarket brand yeah which we don't have here why what page are you on sixty-two is that what i told you then you're good to go [Music] yeah what's the question let me ask my contact right now avocado oil on face uh for the questions how to crush our juicer the other ingredient questions that have come up anything else you don't need to buy new aluminum foil correct again unless in the container of the aluminum foil you think the chrome is dropped in there right correct exactly then you're good to go what is right but it's a but it's a cream it's an edible you can't eat it it's not presumes you're talking about something edible if it's inedible it can't be hummus even if it has the ingredient that cometh would have yes that's an excellent question it's a good question should answer starkey it's a good question it's a guy i don't know i followed the crc it's an excellent question wishing everyone in one moment yes almost yes you can run the self-clean cycle yes most of all happy joyful save the spring cleaning just get ready for pesach next year together in your shalom