Pre-Pesach Workshop 2024/5784

good morning BTO sh it is that time of year again the prees workshop and know despite the several requests I'm not here to announce that pesak is canceled and that's really actually what I want to begin with is that we would never want pesak to be canell p is amazing p is incredible p is the PES is family PES flavors and smells and sounds and recipes pesak is Redemption pesak is unbelievable so who would ever want it to be cancelled it's such a br and if we lean into the work of PES it's Mish transformational now I know you're cynically looking at me and you're saying that's easy for that guy to say because he doesn't do any of the work but I will tell you that if there's any guy who does a lot of work not necessarily cleaning and cooking and shopping but cooking up Dres and Shum and the like it's me so PES is a lot of work for rabbis too and I wouldn't have it any other way there's nothing I would want different pesak is absolutely amazing it's incredible and we should carry the attitude that the Jews who were denied and deprived pesak who actually turned to hasem and said why should we be deprived why shouldn't we have PES why don't we get the PES those Jews who were carrying the bones of Yos those Jews who carried a Mitzvah whatever the reason that stimulated that provoked P sheni when they turned to Hashem they turned to Moshe and they complained L why should we lose out why should we lose out and they really created for us the attitude that we're meant to have is why should we lose out many of us would have said no pesak exempt impure ineligible so s but fantastic amazing pes's cancelled but they didn't say that they said lar what do you mean what would a Jewish year look like what would a Jewish Family look like what would we be if we didn't have PES questions and answers and communication and Liberation emancipation a conversation about freedom the birth of who we are identity our family narrative our family stories our family reunions so the first thing is even before we get to the nitty-gritty and the cering and the ingredients and the medicines and the cosmetics and all the things which basically by the way spoiler alert just watch last year's or two years ago or three years ago pesak is more or less the same it's a few differences we we'll bring up highlight some of the uh the changes that are not fundamental certain ingredients PES is more or less the same but before we get into nevertheless answering all those questions and taking our tour of the kitchen and going through our list of ingredients I can't emphasize and focus enough enough how much we should embrace with joy and with a gmack and with happiness and with energy the Beauty and the love of preparing for pesak we share this I think every year but the russer comes to the Seder table at least he's there he's the fourth son the fifth son never even makes it to the Seder that's the tragedy in America the assimilation of the American Jew the fifth son who never even met makes it the fourth son the Russia at least is still there and the fourth son says what is all this work for you and we blunt out his teeth and we smack him in the face figuratively not literally and of course we have the answer that the Torah prescribes for the Russ but when he asks what is all this work for you who is he talking to and what is he talking about other suggest you know who he's talking to he's talking to the mother or father who for the month before PES he heard CS and moan and groan and complain bitterly on the cost and the prices and the work and the effort and he says if it's such an aod for you if it's so miserable if you're crying and cing and complaining and you hate it so much I'm out of here why would I want to do this for myself so I'm not gonna look for a spouse who wants to make pesak I'm not gonna raise children with a pesak I'm not gonna work and spend my hard earn money on PES because I grew up in an environment in a home where all I heard was what an avod what an effort what a toil what a work so we create and we mold and we birth that Russia when we communicate the aod the toil the effort the pain doesn't mean we can't have our moments doesn't mean we don't have our backache doesn't mean that it's not stressful and difficult but the overarching overall theme and what our children should walk away what they should remember from growing up in our home is amazing we're going to clean we're going to shop we're going to cook we're going to chop kosas we're going to grind M we're going to set a table we're going to prepare Torah and we love P we love P it is so foundational it is so critical it is so it is so definitional to a Jew and and as important as theas and as important as the cleaning and as important as being as important as all the details are of p is this first detail of what attitude do we communicate so I want to suggest this year a new for p and the for PES this year is be happy so so prepare for PES with joy with Sim with happiness with a Bren with a fire with a Gak and with a joy and bring to PES also not only the external preparation of pesak not only the outside which we're going to talk about again in a moment not what you thought you were coming to it the PES Workshop we'll get to the workshop in a second more important than the workshop but we should also Focus not only the externals how do I caser what do I sell what about myet which ingredient we'll get to the salmon Costco we'll get to we're going to get to it all we're gonna get to the baby carrots we're gonna get to the coffee that doesn't that we'll get to it all but before the Cosmetics the deodorants the perfumes we're gonna get to it all but before you get to any of that all the preparation for PES can't only be it can't just be superficial surface external there's a pineus there's something we're going through to transform ourselves we're on this journey From Slavery to Freedom we're looking for something we're looking for something and that's the first step of this conversation of what we're doing to prepare for pesak this search and destroy mission that we are going on because we know as we say every year there are three mitzvas I say three positive Commandments to get ready for p to destroy all to tell the story of leaving Egypt there are five negative prohibitions of of pesak there's a a Prohibition you can't eat from you can't eat all week of P you can't even eat a mixture of PES p is so it's so stringent it's so strict you can't even have a mixture so is the only ingredient that's not Kosher that not only do we have the explicit prohibition for the ingredient but even a mixture containing that ingredient you're not allowed to see and you're not allowed to find it doesn't mean that when you walk through Publix you have to put on your solar eclipse sunglasses when you pass through the bread aisle doesn't mean you're not allowed to see you could see that doesn't belong to you but it means you can't find or see that is your own so three positive mitz five negative prohibitions is unique in five ways right we're setting up by is the arch enemy of PES why we're obsessed why we're so hyperfocused on getting rid ofit number one we have a specific lab a specific prohibition of any mixture containing number two we have two prohibitions to even own even possess unlike other unlike other forbidden Foods number three we have a positive commandment to destroy to obliterate number four it's you cannot benefit at all which is why when we get to the pet section you can't even feed to pets and number five it's it's the only food who is prohibited even in the most minute smallest amount we don't rely certainly once PES has started we don't rely on B we don't rely on nullification even though we rely on B other times is what is is any leav made from the five types of grain what are the five types of grain wheat spell barley oats and Rye that is mixed with a liquid and allowed to ferment for 18 minutes or more that is that is the definition of kitos is kitos no what are kitos what are kitos you know if mosh became alive today he'd be eating fora and the great and are alive today they'd be eating kitos there was no as but in the Middle Ages the ashaz took upon themselves a Prohibition to not eat legumes kidos that which qualifies as kidos and there's a debate why is that one of two reasons either because kidos are food stuff ingredient that could be manufactured in a way that resembles ketz and therefore you might be confused and come to eat ketz and the second reason was KET kidos were were ordinarily packaged and shipped in sacks in which the merchants who produced and sold it would add flour or grain in order to bolster the sack to make it look fuller or feel heavier and therefore there was the the fear thatz could be mixed into that sack of kidos and one could come to eat it's notz but there were these concerns ashaz accepted this prohibition of of kitos sardam did not sardam did not kitos also became Frozen in time for that time meaning whatever was included in the original prohibition of kidos was included later foods that could be confused with were not which is why today if you go to Supermarket if you go on a PES program you're likely not sitting here but if you go to a PES program you will be served Kos P Bagels bread pizza in fact I recently heard from one uh one ra P program that one year the PES program did not have the pizza to serve at the mo PES party for the people who have not eaten in eight days and we're starving for some so they served the Kos P Pizza and people were like oh delicious pizza it's amazing we're back thank God finally they had no idea that's how close the Kos PES Pizza taste pizza and maybe try that with your kids this Mo PES don't bother fighting for the auction to be the first online local pizza stores heat up some of the Kos PES pizza and serve it and say it's from the local pizza store see if anyone notices my father one year performed a tremendous hate crime against our family it took a few months to figure it out but he put some leftover PES ketchup in a hin bottle it wasn't long till we realized this something's wrong with this with this and I like the sweet ketchup I like the sweet ketchup that's true in any case back to our regular schedule topic so kidos are not and the things that today can be confused with are not included because kitos were that which at the time was considered kitos kitos is not which means don't a hold of it some Moroccans still don't eat rice others don't butam generally did not accept kidos Ash do but it's not that means that if it fell into a mixture it would be nullified it means that if a CLE if a vessel were used for kitos that vessel could still be used you could benefit from that on PES and that comes up a lot a lot of baby formulas have kidos some medicines have kitos you don't have to treat it we have the practice of not eating it but you don't have to treat it like in terms of being afraid of it falling into a mixture or where you wash where you wash it from Okay so is our Arch Enemy Number One and we are hyperfocused on getting rid of it and we get rid of it in three different ways we get rid of it through b the opening mishna of tells us it's enough to relinquish ownership so what do you have to do you could on ER of P little secret from a Biblical perspective all you have to do is say you and I are no longer getting along it's a problem in me not in you I'm breaking up and therefore I hear by declare allet nullified I'm relinquishing ownership I have no relationship with that anymore it doesn't belong to me and that's it your house is now ready for PES you are now ready for PES you've broken up with you are good to go you are good to go but we don't rely on that in addition to that we do we go on a search and destroy mission we look throughout our entire house why do we do both why do we do both methods if relinquishing ownership is enough why do we Search and Destroy if searching and Destroy why do we still recite a b why do we still you know if you're leaving for p within 30 days of P you still do the night before you leave without a without a but you still say you still say the why do we be do B if we're doinga why do we doik if we're doing the B the answer is very simple again all this is the Rashi and to in the beginning quotes it and all the reason is very simple because what if you say you're relinquishing ownership of of your but you don't really mean it what happens if you didn't really mean it because you didn't mean it about that special donut you didn't mean it about the thing that you really love and then you're going to come to find it you're going to come to eat it on PES so relinquishing ownership you thought you relinquished ownership until you discovered that by day three four five of PES you're craving it and you find it and now you're gonna still eat it so we Search and Destroy so we're not tempted by it I but once we're searching and destroying why do we still do B why do we need to relinquish ownership of it because what happens if you did a bedika but you didn't find everything and then you're going to stumble across something on PES at least you still won't violate the prohibition because you will have done B you will have nullified your relationship with it as well we have do a third method and the third method we do did it earlier this morning many people stop by my office we have many times scheduled you can still do it you could do it on the website not as good as doing it in person but you can do it on the website which is we sell the so we say I'm gonna Search and Destroy if I didn't find something I'm doing B I'm relinquishing ownership and if there iset in my possession I don't own it I'm selling it and there are those who have the cost [Music] on others not to sell and there's a list what qualifies as Mish bread pasta cereals some don't sell actual KET they only sell mixtures that contain ingredients of K that is a a a custom others even if they don't sell real there's one exception to that rule and they sell liquor whiskey Scotch because it is very expensive sometimes Irreplaceable people have a unhealthy emotional relationship with their collection and they're willing to sell that others make a big considered effort before PES to do to do uh to do uh destroy the by consuming it to make sure they get rid of it before uh before P but we do in fact the origin of which we won't take the time now to elaborate on WE once gave a it all began with liquor collections began when there was a factory or a warehouse where a Jewish Merchant had all of their alcohol all their liquor and they couldn't dispose of their inventory so they sold it they sold it then it changed and evolved even the that remains in our home to be able to sell it some think it's a har it's a legal loophole in order to avoid the legal loophole we actually appoint the agent to sell the and we undergo a Kyan suder we do something to demonstrate the agency some are even strict not only to give money the origin of giving money to the rabbi who sells the is in order to show that he's really an agent that this isn't a legal loophole it's not a halakic fiction that it's real money is given to the rabbi today all the money that I get when we sell goes to and it helps people the incredible prep Market that we're going to offer for hundreds of families to come take what they need and what they want all the money goes there there are some people who nevertheless insist on giving me money personally because they want me to be their agent and to show the seriousness the of the agency to actually give money in the appointing of the agency so we have these three these three methods in order to get rid of in order to get rid but I want to suggest to you a focus this year is on the when we're looking for the we're not just looking for those five grains allowed to sit for 18 minutes mixed with a liquid that turn into we're not just obsessed with and looking for the actual on our hands and knees climbing on the ladder we'll talk all about that in a moment but we're looking for what represents what represents we know the tell us that there are two things that keep us from mhia coming what we indulge in and that is the the leav the bread represents our we're looking for our evil inclination Thea the search the mission that we're on is not just about surface superficial some external enemy called the we're looking for the within ourselves within our heart within our and what is that he lists six parallel similarities between and a if you look at the in there are no less than six similarities between and AAR and idolatry it's all based on a p eradicate the language is very similar between the obligation to purge and eradicate idolatry and to purge and erad and eradicate and the message trust both are forbidden to own both need to be burnt both are forbidden to benefit from both are forbidden even a neg negligible measure both can be eradicated with nullification both prohibitions demand a Bika and a search six similarities or Parallels between idolatry and and getting rid of the of in his he lived in the 18th century he writes searching and destroying is getting rid of the in our lives that's why it says in if we would only if this would be our cavana if when we Search and Destroy for the when we're looking all over our house and we're cleaning our rooms and we're going through our kitchen if when we come on P and we take our and we throw it in the big metal Vats and we burn it if our kavana would only be this represents the in my life then we'd bring the G we'd bring mhia we put an end to all of this anti-Semitism and all the wars for Israel we could end it all if only we would have this if only we would have this kavana if only we would have this kavana so what is this represents this journey this process this exercise is to look for is to get rid of this what is this what isar so we think of AAR sometimes as being something silly like who would worship an idol right we think of the story of a and his father who's bowing down to Stone and rocks and is silly it sounds like it's something silly theat points out it's not silly if it were Silly it wouldn't be user Torah doesn't have to come along and prohibit things that are silly so what is it you know hasm took us out of MIT because MIT was a place of superstition sorcery it was a place of silliness and Jews CLA is we were meant to be different Hashem took us out don't follow silly superstitions don't indulge or give into that we have a hasem we live with we cling to him everything is from him everything is by Design everything is carefully curated and choreographed from above all of our life and everything that happens in it comes from Hashem is anger anger is if you indulge anger because what's at the core and the root of all anger is ego who are you worshiping yourself when things don't go your way when people don't behave the way you want them to and you get angry and frustrated and filled with rage you are indulging in idolatry so that's AAR in our day money is aara people who worship I vodar who bow and surrender to people who have money Celebrity Status influencers a big Following being taken by that that's a form ofar that's a form ofar there are countless examples I'm not going to take the time now the aaras of Our Generation many later later Ma bring down the aaras of our time when we assimilate in our values when we start believing what the world around us believes about certain identity politics or intersectionality or certain philosophies and ideologies that's a when we surrender to certain segments of the community that's AAR that's idolatry why am I sharing all this with you at a PES Workshop like enough already get into the kitchen get into the ingredients what are we talking about over here the answer is because this is the aod so we begin with Rabbi are you going to announce there's no pesak this year why would I want to announce that why would you want me to announce that what would our life look like if we didn't Search and Destroy these avaros that once a year we spend the time to look in our own lives and look in our own hearts and find what we need to get rid of what we need to get rid of anger and and and worshiping money and celebrity and influencers and ideologies that are foreign that aren't ours we have to get rid of these we have to get rid of these why would we want to miss paace I'll tell you one last one then we'll get to the kitchen because you're going to make me I'll tell you one last one is what's the difference between and matah same exact ingredients there's only one difference between them what is it both are made of flour and water what's the only difference time it's the leav it's time it's time is leav it's inflated it represents a waste of time there's AAR a squander time open up your phone not right now now and go and look at your screen time report and see because the phone doesn't lie your screen report doesn't lie with how you spend your time and that's also when I Zar to scroll mindlessly to watch endlessly to binge that's AAR giving into this AAR to watch our screen time doesn't lie so part of and here's an idea this year gather your family and before you start searching for the 10 pieces of bread or after you finish searching for the 10 pieces of bread and say everyone take out your phone everyone look at your screen time people don't have to admit it to one another because we' probably be incredibly embarrassed and ashamed and take upon ourselves how are we gonna work on this don't just get rid of K get rid of apps which app are we getting rid of this year which app are we getting rid of this year what are we getting rid of in our life what time waster are we going to get rid of in our life what are we cleaning up and cleaning out of our life so I'm sharing this there's a lot more to say about it but I'm sharing this because this is the most important part of the prees workshop okay we'll do the kitchen but only because we have to but this is the pus the the internal effort the real part of what we're doing is this so what why would we ever want to be deprived why would we want to be deprived NE on the people who go away for PES who don't do a real Bika they just show up at a hotel room they do a cursory Bika they get ready for the program who took care of everything I don't mean I'm not ranking on them I don't have any Judgment of them everyone to each their own they have to figure out some families can only be together if they go to such a program some people can't make PES off for themselves I'm not one of those people who rank on it it's beautiful enjoy it love it but find a way to tap into the panus no matter what your mat is you're staying home you're going away whatever your situation connect to the depth of what pes's about and let our children see us do that you know before there's the last thing I'll say about this before you you put out the 10 pieces of bread to hide we've tried to do this for several years since I first saw it I thinki quoted it m she said each of the 10 pieces of bread give to a child and tell them to assign something in their life that they want to get rid of a part of their personality a Mida that they need to work on maybe they get angry maybe they feel jealous maybe they're too lazy maybe they what's something they want to work on and to have cavana it's not just like a hideand-seek fun game but there's a cavana there's a mindfulness there's an intention to everything that we're doing so each adult and each child who's hiding the associate with that piece of a TR great an attribute that we want to work on that we want to get rid of and then when you search for it search for it and then when you go burn it think about okay what are we burning what are we getting rid of what are we purging what are we improving that's really what it's all about that's what it's all about so it was worth coming just for that and even if you're staying home going away your kitchen's already ready it's being catered but the pus PES I love it I I work hard I work hard people around me work very hard on PES and I wouldn't have it any other way I look forward to it I can't wait for it it's amazing it's amazing family connection family narrative story the flavors the sights The Sounds this is what creates Jewish continuity if you want a Jewish future it's the messages we don't want to give birth to rash the russer is going to come to our s and say for you it's such an aod you're breaking your back you're miserable you're you're angry you're resentful you're bitter all I hear is cing complaining and groaning so I'm out I'm done for a long time we can rely on children not being done they felt bound they came to the Seder children today if their parents seem miserable about the yish they say I want no part of that why would I want to be part of a miserable yish I'm out of here I'm out of here and they're out of here and they're out of here if we don't want them to be out of here we got to do everything we can to keep them in okay let's go through some maybe we'll do a little shorter this year because really it's all the same as the past and I I provided this for you take this paper it has everything you need to know thanks to technology in my years in the rabet it's got EAS easier and easier for rabbis because there are incredible resources to access in real time all your questions so we have here a link for the sale of donations the CRC guide the OU Passover guide the star PES guide they are indispensable resources they also come in apps you can download the CRC app they're searchable apps every ingredient you want to know how to how to cash or induction cooktop how to it's all there it's all there I find personally I'm sorry favor one but the CRC I find to be the most uh user friendly and I also appreciate its sack it's where it's coming from so I highly highly recommend the CRC guide again you could download the CRC app on whatever device you have you can look the CRC guide on on their website and it is really really excellent in guiding from medications and cosmetics to pet food to Dairy to all these things it's really all there and I highly encourage you to to use it to utilize it to look at it and updates in real time as new questions are asked and they're having answers as we're getting closer to pesak it has frequently asked questions and it updates I saw just this year another website I will alert you to k.com K hr.com Passover and there it has I don't know there must be hundred links on here to to every kous agency and every list that you might want to find and if you can't find it there it doesn't exist it combined and it it it um put together all the links of all the websites of all the lists of everything that could be helpful to you again it's k.com Passover k.com Passover I highly recommend that as well not necessarily all the links in destinations but it can help you find it can help you find a lot here are the rules that govern what you need to do in your kitchen how you prepare your home you ready number one and all this I could share the mar momas I do each and every year all the Skeptics all the doubters it's all there this is not my own this is um uh for for many many years many G is have been emphasizing the difference between spring cleaning and getting ready for PES and if you want to spring clean on our flying into New York last week we visited Rita and he said the people who call spring cleaning at Mar they're wrong his wife still vinegar and wiping down the ceiling fan I think was his example and he gave that as because we're not just cleaning for K you talk about the pus we just discussed we're looking for and we're cleaning and we're working on something so much deeper and so the harder that you clean physically the more it will inspire us to clean spiritually and so we should celebrate it to which my answer is yes someone who has that kavana and who goes through that exercise in a way that's making them feel spiritually elevated but for the people who that cleaning will cause you to be miserable and hate pesak and be difficult to be around and come to the Seder as AATA don't do spring cleaning don't blame your spring cleaning on rabbis and on yish kite and on Judaism that's not what the demands so what is the demand number one based on explicit if during the year is not brought to a particular place or area there is no need for it to be cleaned or checked for which means you should never be climbing on a ladder Because unless you ever climb a ladder to eat a sandwich you do not need to climb a ladder to check for PES so you do not need to clean ceiling fans that's spring cleaning do that in August do that in December don't do that in April for PES because that's spring cleaning unless that's going to give you a deeper and you're going to be working on a In You by doing that then big but if it's going to make you miserable you should never be on a ladder if is not brought there if you never pull your oven out if you never pull your refrigerator out of its place to sit and have a sandwich behind it then you do not need to do that to get ready for PES should never be moving a major appliance you don't need to move any major appliance any area or place crawl spaces ceiling fans behind major appliances parts of your home where KET is never brought now all bets are off a little bit with this because M points out if there are young children in a home there is no place that you can say k is never brought even young children don't climb ladders and don't move appliances but it means if you have a home that doesn't have young children you might have a space that you say we never eat in the garage is never brought we never have a sandwich in that space if there's young children that may not be true but that's rule number one and right away we've limited the area you have to clean up your home enormously because it means spaces are areas that never brought draws dressers bookcases if KET is never taken there you don't have to clean it for PES number two If an item is not used on PES there's no need for it to be cleaned and checked it can seal it and put it away now we just took us up to 90% of our house being ready because any area that you're not going to go into on PES put a piece of tape on the door it's ready for pesak any Appliance you don't need to sit with a toothpick and a toothbrush and clean out your food processor even though you're putting it away do you know how you prepare your food processor for PES you put it in a box you put a piece of tape and you put it away ready for PES your food processor your toaster you sell the in it but you take your food processor you take your toaster you take your sandwich maker you take your blender you take your and you put it in boxes and you put it away that's the work whoever is the chief schlepper that's the work Whoever has to carry the box that you sealed that's the work but you don't need toothpicks and toothbrushes you don't need to be scrubbing because anything that you're not going to use over PES my favorite part of getting ready for PES you know this by now is this is my job I take the tape I walk on the kitchen knows she likes to make me happy so she points to the places that we're not going to be going to for PES tape that cabinet's ready you don't have to take out all the plates and scrub it down and line it and put it back and go through all the you want to do that spring cleaning do that on your own time but for pesak any cabinet you're not using tape tape on the cabinet tape on the closet tape on the room you're not going into tape on the box with your food processor in your sandwich maker tape on the cabinet that you're putting all your non pesak utensils and ingredients tape is your best friend on pesak before pesak before pesak tape is your best friend on the planet because most of your home is now ready any area you're not going in doesn't need to be cleaned or checked anything you're not going to use or any area you're not going to access on PES just put a piece of tape over it and it and you are ready to go with it good now let's keep going crumbs that are inedible by a dog and are not considered even if they're bigger than a kazas so if you have crumbs that are more than 30 grams but they're inedible even to a dog their they are not everything I'm telling you I didn't make up I didn't make up this all the great G shinberg was very mocked but he was the first to really emphasize don't do spring cleaning he wrote this book look you're relying we're relying on him so again underneath the oven underneath the refrigerator in these areas do you make them inedible to a dog you spray a costic spray and now it's ready to go so you don't need to drive yourself crazy if you're on your hands and knes you're not getting rid of PES so if you spray a CTIC spray underneath your oven underneath your refrigerator and any that might be there is now it's ready to go there's no need to check for crumbs less than a if they're dirty and soiled and wouldn't be edible by a human so if they're inedible by a dog they're not if they're edible for a dog but inedible to a human you don't even have to check it so therefore what are we looking for We Are Gonna now narrow it down and focus it what are we looking for in our home that will be exposed on P Which is less than a kazas and edible by a human or even more than a kazas but edible by a dog that is all that we're looking for so you have a playroom and and children again all bets are off with children so that could take you six months to get it ready for PES what they could get in unless what you do is say I'm taking all these toys I'm putting them in a big box tape my best friend already now leave out three toys I tell you this every year and I'm telling you I promise you it's true when when you put all the toys away but three your children or grandchildren are going to go into that playroom and have a better time than they ever have when the playroom has a billion toys I'll tell you a little secret if you took all the toys out and all you left with a cardboard box they would have more fun than all the toys in the world they'd be more creative and their imagination would kick in and they have have more fun you want to scrub all the toys down spring cleaning enjoy bazun don't blame Hal don't blame Torah you don't have to anything put them all in a big box tape your best friend put it away sweep the playroom playroom is ready to go with the three toys that are clean or buy pesak toys every year you take out your box of pesak toys put away all the other toys don't don't have to clean any of them and now your playroom is ready to go for for pesak so we've I I really believe that cleaning the entire house for pesak is less than a day it's a few hours because if you don't have to go into craw spaces and hands and knees and stand on a ladder and pull out major appliances and go through dressers of places and closets that K never entered how long does it take to go through each room only where KET would have entered and only where you're going to access it on PES and not put a piece of tape on it how long does that take if you want to as Nash have done for time of Memorial spend hours and days and months and you like rebbit and Shore can have the kavana that you're being bodar and the time and you're going to be trans then please do it and we'll give you the woman of Valor award the next dinner it's incredible I'm not knocking it it's a beautiful beautiful thing we're celebrating it and we should put such people on pedestals but if that's not where you're at tuin P 2024 understandable that's not where you're at then stick with the Hal and spend time and having the energy to have a joy of P to have the joy of PES and to be preparing in the pus of PES so that is all the house now we start with the kitchen house is good comfortable with the house any questions about get in the house ready less than a day a few hours good glad we're all in the same page next the kitchen let's go through the kitchen so casing a kitchen for PES we have certain rules for caser I'm going to give you the background the and then you'll understand as we apply it because we take our tour of the kitchen together and here is how it goes we we believe a concept of Tom ker Tom ker means that not only is mamosas not only is extent actual real food have a status but even the taste of that food could be embedded within something the gar has an entire discussion that spans several da where do we learn the principle of Tamer where do we learn the notion that taste has meaning taste has value that the taste embedded in something also counts but the gamar concludes taste counts so if I boil chicken soup in a pot even if I scrub and clean that pot and a laboratory can't measure on the surface of the pot the presence of any chicken soup but we believe that there's chicken soup that is absorbed and embedded in the walls of that pot and that taste Tom ker it has status which is why I camp on the same day cooking that pot macaroni and cheese even though it was a sparkling beautiful clean pot after I made the chicken soup but the taste of the chicken soup from the wall of the pot's going to go into my Mac and Cheese I'm that's that's forbidden that's forbidden how long does taste last in the war of a CLE it lasts for 24 hours 24 hours after 24 hours it's called a Tom pum The Taste in the wall of the CLE after 24 hours is a spoiled taste it's not a meaningful taste it can't add value it loses its status which means you're thinking right now to yourself that every utensil if you just wait 24 hours it's kosher it goes back to neutral and the answer is correct that's true on a Biblical perspective every utensil after 24 hours reverts back back to being neutral it's not Flik or mil or kosher or non kosher it goes back to being as if it's brand new after 24 hours mace lace mace lace 24 hours so why do we have separate mil and FL why do we have kosher and non kosher all of this was a rabic enactment why because imagine today's kitchen the modern kitchen how many utensils are in the average kitchen not just dozens probably I think my wife has hundreds of platters for shabas more than she could ever use it's a nightmare trying to put a platter away in that cabinet so hundreds there are hundreds in every what are you g to have a separate little egg timer for every utensil to calculate the 24 hours every Fork every knife so rabbis came along and said that we have to keep things separate why because we're afraid we're fearful we'll miscalculate and if you're off by a minute it was 23 hours and 59 minutes and you made the mac and cheese in the Chicken Soup pot you got the staks are high there's no room for ER and it's easily to have error with so many utensils and therefore therefore Rabbi said separate mil and fek separate kosher and non kosher we don't rely on the 24 rule good can you get the taste embedded in a pot out how do you get the taste that's embedded in a pot out so the answer is it depends on how it got embedded in it's a PK tells us in we had a war with midan and after we fought the war with midan we came home with The Spoils of the war and what were The Spoils of the war we came home with not a new laptop or iPad not a new flat screen TV we didn't bring flowers what did we bring home honey look what I won the war and look what I brought you the kitchen appliances that's what we won so Torah says wait one second though but how could you use them these shilas these shilas have come up again in our time how because the war in Gaza my nephew called me from Gaza with such a Shila in Gaza what are they eating what are they cooking with and Army doesn't bring with it a kitchen a portable kitchen so what are they doing they're taking over homes including ofas they go into their kitchen and they're starting to cook that's what you have to do to take care of yourself how do you use those utensils how do you Cas them what can you rely on so the whole theuk about mid the war with midan those are are relevant are relevant yet again so there theum tell us KOLO the way that taste is absorbed in a utensil is the same way that the taste gets purged from the utensil if through heat then you get it out with heat if through a liquid medium then you get it out with a liquid medium the same way with if through Steam then you get it out with steam so this background there's a lot more to say it's a and to say but this background helps you understand now let's go to the kitchen and how we caser the same way taste got absorbed and embedded is the same way that we get it out so the first thing that we do before we caser anything is we wait 24 hours why do we wait 24 hours because now you understand even if our casing wasn't right or accurate by waiting 24 hours on a Biblical level it's already back to neutral it's back to kosher so that's why the first thing we do is clean it very well sparkling clean wait 24 hours your microwave your counters your sink your pots your Kish cups wait 24 hours before you Casher why 24 hours help us because on a Biblical level Mida it's back to neutral what's the next thing we do we ask ourselves how did it absorb The Taste the way it absorbed The Taste is the way we get rid of the taste so for the microwave how does a microwave absorb taste when you cook something in the microwave you cook something in the microwave you heat it up a slice of pizza that's a hate crime heating Pizza in a microwave is a hate crime it's terrible soggy disgusting but you did it anyway because there's someone you hate I don't know you did it anyway so you heated Pizza in a microwave and it was soggy and disgusting but now your microwave istick how do you caser the microwave first thing you have to do is take out the glass plate why we don't Cas your glass Cas your glass as or they hold glass doesn't even to be cered ashaz do not caser glass all year round ashm hold glass can't absorb or Purge but for PES we're strict you can't Casher glass take the glass plate out that's number one number two you clean your microwave you wait 24 hours number three how do you Casher the microwave well how did the pizza make the microwave KET steam the steam produced from the pizza made a ketz so how do you get the taste out steam how do you produce steam you take a microwave safe bowl or cup and you put it in the microwave long enough that that water produces steam 10 minutes 12 minutes then you do it a second time and you move the location so the spot where it was to begin with is cered now as well that's how you caser a microwave using our principles wait 24 hours then you steam to it the same way steam is what made it to begin with that's a microwave if you have a convection microwave it's caser the same way as an oven how do you caser an oven well you wait clean it very well and you wait 24 hours if you don't have if you don't have uh self clean if you don't have a self clean why self clean gets to temperatures that's Li that is such a high form of cering the heat is so intense that you don't even need to clean it you don't even need to wait 24 hours for it so intense that you could just right away run the self clean if you don't know how how good your selfclean is put a wooden spoon inside your selfclean oven and when you're finished with a self-clean cycle you know what you're gonna find in the bottom of the oven a pile of Ash you will not have a wooden spoon any longer so Le you could take by the way the grates of your stove top and put them in the selfclean before you run the self clean the grates of your barbecue if you want a caser a barbecue by putting them in your self clean before you run the selfclean they will likely get discolored so if that will bother you don't do it they will likely get discolored that's how intense the heat is but if you're doing a a oven that is selfclean then you do not need to wait 24 hours you put it on the selfclean you run it for a selfclean cycle I what if I woke up my selfclean cycle didn't finish if it reached the highest temperature and stayed on it for a significant amount of time then you're good but you should try to run the selfclean cycle for the entire amount of time if it doesn't have selfclean the way you cure the oven is you clean it well wait 25 hours again so it's yo and then you put it on the highest setting for an hour highest setting for a minimum of an hour that's how you CER a non- self-clean oven convection microwave is like an oven so you clean it you caser it the same way you would an oven clean it well away 24 hours leave it on the high setting for an hour okay so we did our microwave we did our ovens let's move ah question yes have you heard of the hydroc CLE ovens no what is it there's like something where you pour water in the bottom and it's like it's supposed to clean it so I don't know how if that's like just like does it reach an incredible high temperature or it's doing it all without reaching a high temperature it probably depends on the temperature we'll look into it afterwards hydroc clean okay we'll look into it afterwards yes oh so you can caser I would use a styrofoam bowl or cup sorry for the seals I'm environmentalist a microwave safe thing um you can Casher in any thing that's not a bomo so if you want to Coster your ksh cups in a huge pot just use a pot that hasn't been used in 24 hours so any vessel that hasn't be used in 24 hours can be used for cering if you want we're doing cering at the Sho when is that next Sunday next Sunday so feel free to utilize that as well okay that is the microwave and that is the oven let's go to countertops so similary how did the Cas how did the counter top absorb I'll tell you another rule two kalum can't transfer taste if you have a milk pot in a fic pot and they're both 300 degrees and they're touching there's no problem there has to be a liquid between them in order for a Tom to be able to transfer between the two two vessels themselves can transfer taste there has to be steam or liquid or something between them so when you put your vessel down on your countertop that doesn't make the counter have that status we're worried about a spill we're worried about Steam we worried that you put your dirty spoon on the counter top that's how it absorbed The Taste that's how it was Baya so how do you get rid of it with something called cleish you pour boiling water from a vessel over the countertop and that's how you caser not all materials are curable not all materials are curable but those that are curable the way you caser clean it well the countertop and start the clock on your 24 hours start the clock on the 24 hours the best time to a shabas because you clean and you set aside take again tape is your best friend tape off the sink tape off the counter so that your husband and children don't reset the clock and ruin everything and set off the whole schedule of everything you going to do so tape signs the 24-hour clock on the kitchen but that's the best time I find the best time is a mo shabas to kaser because shabas anyway you're not engaging in cooking and and the kitchen the ordinary way it's used clean the clean the counter L way 24 4 hours take water that's malos it's AIA where the word sounds like what it's describing gar uses the language of Mala abos Mala ABAB means it's bubbling abos it's bubbling over you have to heat the pot the water can't just be producing steam that's not called boiling water to qualify as boiling water to ker it has to be malos it has to be bubbling up and to do eroy proper ooy is not just I pour it on this side of the counter and then it runs on the whole counter I have to walk with the pot and pour it along the whole counter so the boiling water runs and hits each each part of the surface of the counter so if it's a counter the CRC guide has a handy list two pages Pages 28 and 29 of countertops did you know that there are two pages there's got to be I don't know 60 50 types of countertops acrylic avonite blue Louise buddy roads Butcher Block T Stone Cambria cement ceramic tile Chang design concrete copper Cor Cosmos we're just in the C's we haven't even made it to the D's That's How many types who knew who knew so you could ask me I'm happy to answer or you could save us both and go right to the CRC guide whether your countertop qualifies to Casher for Micah can you caser for Micah we asking yes you can you can Cas for Mah but it should be carefully cleaned the seams if they're cracks then you can't if they're scratches deep cratches you can't but if for mic that's generally smooth you can put a piece of tape along the seams seams could be a problem but otherwise you can Casher otherwise you can Casher the alternative to cashing it in my home once we got a new kitchen several years ago I still call it new which is the best way of having to replace it is if you keep calling it the new kitchen so our new kitchen so my wife refused to let me kaser with iro on the countertops because the water pours over into the into the uh into the cabinets it can warp them it can destroy them so what do we do so we cover them we cover them there's an entire business now where you can get someone to come measure cover them I'll tell you a benefit of covering them not only do you save your your cabinets and also you save your legs say something very scary one of our beloved custodians I won't say his name because I I don't know if he wants it public but this week there was a terrible terrible accident and the ear and the hot water n um spilled on his legs he's taken to the hospital he a second degree burns all over his legs bar he's fine barem it's dangerous a person has to take extreme extreme care that that was the hot water from an N it's not even Mala ABAB not even the temperature of what we CER with and it's capable of giving at least second degree burns very very dangerous the person has to be very careful I grew up with we had white for Mica countertops in our kitchen and we had these blue they they were melamine I don't know what material it was with with um contact paper this blue contact paper for pesak our kitchen looked different second that they and the kids had fun we went down to the basement we put them up where does it go each one what does it fit was a fun activity and then the kitchen for eight days looked different and then when you took them off and you went back oh that's what the kitchen looked like now that's the's kitchen these little things that would embed the memories they embed the memories so yeah you could Casher Granite you could Casher all these for Micah and the kitchen looks exactly the same there's nothing wrong with nothing wrong with it just given my little editorial comment here the benefit also of covering it is it embeds these memories oh that's the pesak look it looks different that's how I remember it for I I remember vividly remember vividly the way our kitchen looked growing up and the activity of finding it and right now also take the pieces and the the parts and how and taping them together and covering them and you can't cover you can't just cover with something thin and contact paper anything that heat or taste could transfer through is not good enough can't put aluminum foil on your countertops that's not good enough you need something that's an actual barrier you need something that creates that that difference so you need an actual cover for the counter but that's another alternative can you use steam Amazon $50 you're going to buy some steam gun can you use steam the steamer you're going to use for when you go on the business trip for your suit before you into the conference no not good enough you can't caser with steam steam does not caser steamer industrial Steamers could work but only if the steam produces a liquid and the liquid remains over 212 degrees only then could you caser with it so therefore the average steamer from bed b Bed Bath and Beyond the average steamer from Amazon is not Kosher there are people caser in their kitchens with Steamers that they're not cering they're not cering because by the time the steam hits the countertop it's not the liquid is not the temperature it needs to be to Casher so it doesn't qualify Cleon pouring of the water or or cover in the counters that is the counters different counter tops qualify some do and some don't yes yeah because we don't know you don't you don't know who was in your house who put down the Hot Pot who put down the hot spoon who took the thing out of the microwave and put it down and it spilled it was so hard it the countertop is very accessible open and the place that you put things so it's unlikely that in in an entire year there wasn't some got now again waiting 24 hours reset your countertop as kosher and PES and neutral but we're strict because has all those stringencies to caser it nonetheless a thick clear plastic could also be 100% 100 yes is there a difference between steamer like use forus a pressure steamer pressure so again there are Steamers but you need to have uh uh a a heat gun I think flug has one you'd have to shoot it at the steam when it condensed into water on the counter to see if it maintain the temperature so if something qualifies then you'd also very patiently have to run it over every single spot every area so it could be every year I wonder why someone doesn't invent a CO the the pesak cashing steamer with the endorsement of post gim and a guide of how to do it I don't know again feel free to take it royalties go to BRS I don't need it for myself run with it do it I think it's it's it's Hally complicated to design and it's also very complicated and timec consuming to actually use that's why maybe nobody's done it yes still not good enough even heavy aluminum foil is not thick enough to be a cover for the counter we use it on top of a stove top also because we need something that's flame resistant but it's not enough for the counter top sink depends what your sink is made out of stainless steel can be cered how do you cure it clean it well leave it 24 hours and then again the same way it absorbed is how it is purged take boiling water Mala abos bubbling really hot and pour it over again you can't just splash it Pour it over the surface of the sink if there's a trap or a filter better to replace it for PES take it out or you could caser it in your pot of boiling water if you're sink you also have to CER the entire faucet so pour it over the faucet soap dispenser if you have tubing that comes out also best to pull it out and caser it we we p in you could caser hard plastic but it's best as a stringency not to pull out the sink tubing on PES that's what the CRC recommends if you don't have a sink that's curable then you put a sink insert which is you buy a basin you cut a hole to be the drain and you put the sink insert if you don't have a sink which you can which you can caser so stainless seal or Coran sink can be cered others a ceramic sink cannot be cered stove tops yes question so it depends again if you took hot water that went right into oatmeal and the steam of the oatmeal came up and made it you should take it off and you should Casher it by dipping it into the into boiling water okay um stove tops and ovens ovens we did stove tops so if you have a gas stove which exists here in Florida but is less popular but if you have a gas stove then you caser the the gas stove by uh leaving the burners on High um for whatever amount of time 12 minutes 15 minutes until a Casher is the grate or you can put the grate through the through the selfclean oven yeah same clean 24 hours yeah sorry clean wait 24 hours and then caser the stove top put aluminum foil in all the area catch areas between the grates themselves cover the knobs also cover the knobs and cover the areas you could also cusher the knobs but again you might melt off the high low medium trust me if you try to C the knobs you might melt the knobs or melt off the the labels of the knobs so be careful or alternatively you can uh you can cover them alternatively you can cover them that is a gas stove top also the backsplash of the stove top you should put aluminum foil there or you could Casher by pouring oo the water but the backsplash of the stove top the backsplash of the countertop should be cered as well so if you cover you should cover that those areas as well sometimes the pot leans up against the back Splash or liquid splashes in that area as well next is glass much more popular here in Florida glass stove tops where the heating element is embedded in the glass top stove again wait 24 hours wait 24 hours and uh wait 24 hours and here there's a debate exactly how to do it and it's changed over the years not because the H has changed but people have had to learn how it is and how it works you leave the burner the area of the burner is cered by leaving it on high until it glows and then it's cered we said ashaz we can't Cas your glass for PES so what do you do about a glass STP stove what do we do about the glass STP stove so some say put the four burners on high till the area glow cover the areas in between but that can crack the glass top stove so be very careful some say just put like trivet or things to put the spoon or the lid on in the area some say put the metal round circle that you put over so if the pot circumference is bigger than the but what I say based on the postum I've spoken to my re is that you can heat water and run on the glass top stove because there already them that you can rely on that you can caser the glass through eroy plus putting it on high plus there is an opinion which is probably how we really p in that like this fart in that glass doesn't need to be cered and if you will do all that your glass top stove is ready to go but be careful nonetheless not to put anything between the burners over PES don't put a spoon down between the burners don't put the lid down between the burners don't move a pot into the area between the burners use the burner even if the pot is bigger than the burner use the burners then take it off don't use the areas in between that is the glass top stove an electric stove that's not glass top again leave the burner on high till it glows and cover with tinf in the area between the burners that is the stove top refrigerator induction induction you can't cost your induction but what you can do is get a mat when you put one of the mats over it and on top of it make sure nothing touches the actual surface of the induction but you put a mat on top of it that barrier makes it eligible for PES yes in terms of the knobs if you don't want to if you don't use tin coil the other thing is to take them off and put boiling water on them no you could take the knobs and put them in boiling water and Casher them then you don't have to cover them it's great but it could melt them if it works it's great you could also go on Amazon we live in an incredible time and world and you take the brand of your stove and then you buy pesak knobs so you just switch out the knobs for PES so you're not going to melt them you don't have to cover them and you get pesak knobs almost everything you can get on Amazon like the piece and the part of the thing of the whatever somebody else so I don't know what they cost if they're incredibly expensive but that isn't it is an option refrigerator clean it well and line the shelves don't line perforate whatever you line them with so the airflow continues you don't want to break your you don't want to break your uh your refrigerator try to clean the accordion door of the the accordion rubber on the door of the of the refrigerator and the freezer and the easiest way to do that is spray a costic spray so it's in inedible to a dog and now even if there's mixed in there it's not considered to be the freezer should be defrosted often our freezers are Jewish freezers are overpacked because we have kalas and leftovers and kala rolls we have all kinds of things that regular people don't freeze our freezers look like we're ready for Armageddon and uh so therefore you should defrost the freezer because KZ could be frozen against the side of the freezer and defrost the freezer let it get defrosted and it's ready to go line the refrigerator freezer and now fridge and freezer are ready to go a warming draw can a warming draw be cered some of the agencies say no this why I like the CRC it says yes how do you CER the warming drawer the warming drawer is not cered with turning it on at all you put a chafing dish like a Sterno can in the warming draw clean it well leave it 24 hours then put a Sterno a chafing dish a chafing fuel in and leave the draw open a drop so air can circulate so air uh for combustion and leave that sternal burning for two hours and the temperature will rise to such a level that your warming draw is now Kosher for PES for many people that warming draw is a lifesaver okay any part of the kitchen that we did not cover Stern should burn for two hours yeah we do we do it every year we do it every year leave the draw open a little bit and that's perfectly fine I take no responsibility liability disclaimer but that's it yes do you have to line with no it's kosher just like your oven ready to go your microwave it's all good to go all good to go anything else about the kitchen what refrigerator we use paper towels okay paper towels and I will say this again it's symbolic strictly speaking your refrigerator is cold by definition it can't absorb a taste you've cleaned it well you've sprayed everything down with a CTIC spray but there is a tradition that we have that we line it nonetheless it shouldn't sit on the same tray but you don't have to start do arts and crafts of taping paper towel together and you missed a millimeter in the corner and you just put a piece of paper towel down shine you're good to go okay that is the referer to the kitchen yes what kind of things can you leave refrigerator get I think one time you said you could like leave so you could leave a shelf of the refrigerator we do this we have a second refrigerator also a very Jewish thing are there any non-jews who have a second refrigerator like that even happen I don't even know only Jews need the second refrigerator because we have shabas and Y I'm not talking about our eating habits alone but shabas once a year for once a year they they rent the refrigerator so uh you can we do this we put all the items let's say the open ketchups and mustards and all those things on a shelf and then we take you know a garbage bag or or whatever else plastic you want to use and we tape we covered that refrigerator so if you tape it and you cover it and you sell it now you're good to go one yeah you could do it in the same fridge designate a Shelf with your's things tape it and cover it so you won't have access to it and you it's selling it with your KET theet that's in there you're selling it could beetz ketchup has vinegar vinegar haset it could have shelf yeah when you fill out you write my kitchen my you don't even have to say w shelf just in the refrigerator in the kitchen there's and it's included yes that's a good question I don't think so also because it it the the aluminum foil conducts heat so I don't know if that's going to help you for taste transferring between so I'm not sure how many layers of heavy duty would have to qualify to be a separation but I think generally we try to stay away from tinf foil as the cover of the counter yeah yeah put it away no again you can but you don't have to say all my all my my appliances that have I'm you don't want to sell your appliances or your dishes why because to P have to bring them all to the Mikvah again if you sold actually your silverware your dishes your appliances and an NRE owned it when you reacquire them after P you gonna have to bring them to the mikah so you're selling the in them you're not selling them very important you're selling the in them you're not selling them yeah the in the closet in the closet yes that items in the re that you should not have in possession at all besides bread anything else again you could designate a shelf of it and cover it as long as it's covered and inaccessible it's okay yes can I go back to the self scene on the oven there a certain amount of time that we know it reached um the highest temperature if you really don't want to run it the entire period you should try to run it the whole time if it doesn't run because it's broken or it quit or it hit a temperature that has some automatic shut off but it hit that highest temperature I'm not sure what that minimum amount of time is an hour I'd say certainly an hour you're you're you're good okay that is the uh kitchen what could be caser not you didn't ask me about towels and tablecloths vinyl tablecloths you can't caser for p you should have a PES vinyl if you're into the whole vinyl thing with the Charger and the plate and the magic flowers and whatever if you're using a regular old fashion tablecloth you can run it through the washing machine washing machine casers if you ran towels or or tablecloths through a washing machine they are Kosher for PES and they are good to go no I think if it's clean and with the laundry the it makes anything that were in it being niell would be it would be possible it's good to go okay covered should be covered just one one cover it should be preferably with two cover we we take plastic over the dining room table and kitchen table and then use a tablecloth on top of that the way You' ORD and have milk or fles or place mat but the but the covering is there yeah table the pads are okay you don't have to replace the pad yeah the pads are okay you don't need yeah I don't think so I think you're okay yeah but it's a year MIT oven mits you should have different ones for p yeah yeah the year round pad is okay it's okay yeah okay kitchen we've covered you shouldn't sell the dishes you're selling the that is in those dishes or in those possessions but not the dishes yes all right def frosting the freezer is that an absolute necessary it's uh it should be done it should be done there exceptions if someone didn't do it what would the be no there some people still have a freezer a little freezer and a lot of frost builds up and the that that one piz that you saved from one time that you think you're still going to ever use which is the most disgusting thing of all time is now Frozen to the side of your backup little freezer and you can't peel it off so you should defrost it okay um there there I'm really going to refer I don't want to spend any time I really think we could wrap up I'm going to refer you to the CRC Shopping Guide we could talk about milk and egg should be bought before pesak try to buy everything that you're gonna need for pesak before pesak there's a couple reasons that we do that I'm not going to get into now if you run out of milk or eggs go to a Kosher Supermarket and buy it there because you know that they have it from before pesak so B has applied to it but you can go to Publix or Windixie or any or Target or Walmart I'm not trying to favor to anybody you could buy milk or eggs anywhere before PES but for before PES on PES only buy from a Kosher Supermarket because that you have to have from before PES in terms of other things you want to know about uh baby carrots and ant acids and and carway seeds and uh everything else CRC Shopping Guide if you have a big shopping later today take your phone with the app and have your CRC Shopping Guide is your best friend CRC Shopping Guide the CRC Shopping Guide has three three symbols a check mark means you're good to go with no pay certification so water water is all good to go unflavored Seltzer it's seriously is actually strict on this but you could be leaning like the SAR I looked into it the reasons why unflavored Seltzer is okay there you have a Shopping Guide there's a check mark things that don't need to be Kos there's a little triangle that doesn't mean you could buy triangle K the Little Triangle means it needs to be P things that have to beos and X means not good for PES ever so for example CBD oil is kidney never good for PES don't know why I gave that as the example but that was the example that was an example what's another example K am I pronouncing that properly cumin cumin is kidos Dill seeds or kitos leaves are okay C cumin cumin is kitos CRC says cumin is kitos on their Shopping Guide years ago it wasn't they never said years ago if I have an old bottle from years ago I can still use it if they if it's from a yeah I'll look into it I'll ask them I'll ask them Listerine pocket packs are kitos would require PES certification mustard is kitos that's GNA always be an x a triangle might be PE can pieces nuts has to be other nuts including chopped are acceptable without certification are free of BHA and BHT and are not blanched roasted or ground again I don't want to take our time CRC Shopping Guide is your best friend I will highlight I asked RAB Fel stock or wonderful wonderful with the orb to give me a list of what might be I should mention that resource too but some of the things this year that people don't know so here they are cocoa powder is acceptable of 100% pure and not processed in Europe all Hershey's cocoa powder are acceptable except special dark so cocoa powder um kinoa needs to be kosher for PES it's not Kos kin is okay but has to be kosher for PES chosen avocado oil is okay for pesak extra virgin olive oil is okay for PES without being Kos p c even if it's sold in Costco what' you say extra virgin olive oil Costco shur sheld pean pieces require Passover certification uh the raw ones I just told you there's a couple links here that are worthwhile to share um SE CES how do you pronounce that juice Sarah's juice even with kosher PES is not okay for PES yeah I don't know why that yeah sorry we don't like South Africa right now they're not good to Israel so I'm not sure what that's about so but if you stay tuned the last thing I'll tell you the last resource is that um Rabbi fock runs the orb has an incredible WhatsApp all year round people ask questions and it's incredible he answers right away and it's likely questions you'll have and you can search on it so maybe someone asked a question that you have already and you could go back to it and it's really incredible I'll just end with cosmetics and medicines every year the CRC has a letter that's signed by Dian first Rabbi Reese major post and Chicago but applies everywhere anything that's inedible is not K so that's like 99% of your Cosmetics it's not edible doesn't have to be Kos I know there was a big Rabbi who put out a thick book and people went crazy every year but that's not the the strict and that we follow is that Cosmetics are by definition inedible and they don't have to be Kosh PES the one exception might be denatured alcohol if you remember Kitty Dukakis was an alcoholic and used to drink the perfume bottle I don't remember why that stands out an alcoholic and desperate might even drink denat alcohol so it might be edible so maybe perfumes need to be checked but generally speaking Cosmetics are all permissible medicines any medicine in a pill form is permissible liquid and chewable might have kidos ask a question but a person should never stop medicines they need without asking the question certainly they should not stop a medicine menu without asking the question all this is in the CRC guide as well I highly highly recommend it pets you can't feed you could feed kitney to a pet you can't feed KET to a pet so you need to start changing your pet's diet or sell your pet now you can't sell your pet but keep your pet in your that's not a real sale that's a harama if you sell your pet you need to give your pet to somebody else who you sold it to if you have a housekeeper you have a non-jewish friend or neighbor you could sell your pet give your pet their responsibility to to feed the pet and and so on okay any questions myy non cooked tra meat in it it says chicken but there's other things I've read in it can I sell my dog or the no if it's just kidney and you could even feed that to the dog yourself it's only if you were feeding that would be a problem the CRC also guide also has a great section about pet food and pets and many more details and lists of different foods here as well Foods available at zoos or so if you are Jewish and go on a trip to the zoo then don't buy those little food in the dispenser in your hand and feed it because they likely have as well in them cats dogs ferrets hedgehogs Birds fish reptiles amphibians some I wonder who at the CRC got this job small mammals to go investigate all their foods and diets and what best advice there is for them but it's all included in the outstanding guide here as well so mlus about mouthwash and topace CRC is strict there are lists most of our col Gates and so on are on them but check them against the list the star k has a great medicine list I highly recommend if you go to that kut.org Passover it has all the lists and you could check a list most of the classic toothpaste and M mouthwashes are on it yeah the car should be cleaned car should be cleaned for pay if you're going away and no one's using your car then you don't have to clean your car but if you're using a car on PES it should be cleaned for PES vacuum been cleaned absolutely what did you say got the triangle K vintage Selzer no triangle K is okay on some things but despite the triangle K meaning as a heer we don't rely on the triangle okay but some things are okay yeah then it's okay that's okay yes going back to the playroom a second toys can you not rely on the crumbs the H crumbs let's say you generally don't allow food in the it depends if it's edible to a dog and bigger than a kazas it could be a problem so if there was a piece of a bagel of a donut of a of an timate hole of a pretzel it could it could be a problem it be a problem so it should be cleaned but if you want to not have to go through the toys tremendously then you can package them tape them and put them away tape is your very best friend most importantly don't forget the pus of P that it should be a it should be AER should be a happy p and a beautiful Leed p and a p of that brings the Redemption yeah or put it away tape it up tape the now put it in a cabin and put it tape it it doesn't need a box put it away put it away tape it up in a way that will not be accessible thank you for coming for this ride look forward to doing it again together next year in Y where we'll say all the same things yet again