What is Obligatory to Clean for Passover? - Rabbi Ilan Meirov

[Music] cleaning the house for p could be one of the more stressful parts of this very beautiful holiday and unfortunately uh with all the work that men and women especially the women put into it it could lead to a lot of frustrations and a lot of unnecessary arguments in the home because everyone's trying to do uh uh things that maybe are not an obligation and they don't even realize it's not an obligation so today will try to go through some of the basic rules of cleaning for p what is an obligation what's a nice thing to do what is a must do and we'll go through this very quickly and hopefully you'll have a better understanding and appreciate these in a better fashion first things first is what we're looking for and is what we're trying to destroy everything else that we do in the house is nice it makes the house look beautiful for the but it's not a must so when women want to come and clean out the windows inside out and they take the chandeliers and they're making nice and shiny and they're taking all the curtains and putting in the laundry beautiful you're beautifying the house for the beautiful of P amazing not an obligation however a person is obligated to get rid of K is what we are searching for and looking to destroy with that being said we got to make sure that is the primary objective and everything else is going to be the secondary objective otherwise people come into the holiday they're very very famished and tired and exhausted and they cannot enjoy it because they were very very into it for the past two three four weeks so the first rule is no what you looking for where your obligations are now that you know your obligation is what kind of are we looking for you see some you may have that's behind the heater system and people want to open up the heaters and they start breaking it apart and they start taking toothpicks and trying to clean it up what are we concerned about you going to eat the the in the heaters do you ever open up the heaters you're not going to open it up leave it as it is it's not edible it's not visible it's not reachable these are not things you're obligated in you want to get rid of in areas you could potentially shom come to eat or come into contact with P the kitchen area is something you must be careful even of crumbs but when we say kitchen area we're talking about the mfim the cabinets we're talking about the refrigerators we're talking about the areas around the counter but you don't necessarily have to move the stove the stove is not something you move the stove is sitting there all year round you don't have to start inching it out back and forth and back and forth taking it out then you see nothing but dust and and and and some maybe crumbs over there that's not an obligation you want to do that you want to make sure there's no accessible and areas where you may come into contact with it with that being said one area which is very very important to take care of is children's clothing children's nap saacks and even adults clothing you know what if a person has 20 suits or he has many shirts and pants and dresses does he have to actually take each and every suit and turn the pockets inside out to clean it for P or can you do a simple tap search the Pim discussed this topic very depth going back and forth and the following is the proper approach any clothes you plan on wearing for p you set it aside clothes you don't want to wear for p you put it on the other side the ones you don't want to wear for p all you have to do is tap the clothing to make sure there's no tangible over there we're not concerned about crumbs we're not concerned about the crumbs you check to make sure there's nothing there no candies or cakes that you have left over or cookies that you have in wrappers make sure everything is clear of K you take that suit you put it aside you take those pants put it aside clothes that you do want to wear in PES however you got to actually take the shirts and the pockets and Theo and you got to turn it upside out meaning Inside Out excuse me you got to take the pockets of the suit and the pants and the dress inside out to make sure not even Crumbs are there why what are we concerned about cuz maybe on P you'll be eating with your friends and family and as you're eating you stick your hands in the pocket to take something out out and some of the crumbs that get stuck and then you're eating it with your even a small amount of so therefore clothes that you want to wear you got to make sure it is absolutely free of any of crumbs of anything clothes you don't plan on working P you got to make sure there's nothing there tangible but we're not concerned about little specs of now if you put those clothes in the laundry you take your clothes you put them in the laundry that's a different ball game why because now the laundry detergent usually takes the that may be in your pocket and it makes it it's not something that even a dog could eat it totally destroys the taste of this so this really only applies with open Goods like if you have a cookie in your pocket that's that in a wrapping but if it's wrapped up in it's original seal or candies that have a plastic wrapping obviously that won't help out but in terms of any K maybe in your pocket that's not wrapped then the logy takes care of it and you will not have to check those clothes at all so again as a quick review we're trying to get rid of if you want to beautify the house and you want to clean up and scrub the walls and all the different uh ceilings and all the lightings and all the windows God bless you you're making the house like royalty it looks beautiful for the that's not an obligation the is to search for and when we're searching for you're fulfilling theah but we must keep in mind that besides searching foret and cleaning the KET in our house we must do an internal search look for a little inside of us maybe anger maybe we have some jealousy maybe we have issues with home Shalom B let's try to see if we could get rid of that within us so we come into P clean both physically and clean spiritually as well [Music]