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==Bedikat Chametz== | [[Image:Bedikat-chametz.jpg|250px|right]] | ||
==Texts for Bedikat Chametz== | |||
# Before one begins the Bedika one should say the following bracha: ברוך אתה ה' אלוקינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו על בעור חמץ Baruch Atta Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam Asher Kideshanu BeMitzvotav VeTzivanu Al [[Biur Chametz]].<ref>Tur and S"A 432:1, Kitzur S"A 111:7. See Rosh (Pesachim 1:10) as to why the bracha is with "Al Biur" and not "Leva'er".</ref>The reason that the text is [[Biur Chametz]] and not Bedikat Chametz is because Biur is the beginning of the Biur and if one does Bedika without doing Biur on whatever he finds one hasn't accomplished anything. <ref>Bet Yosef 432:1</ref> | # Before one begins the Bedika one should say the following bracha: ברוך אתה ה' אלוקינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו על בעור חמץ Baruch Atta Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam Asher Kideshanu BeMitzvotav VeTzivanu Al [[Biur Chametz]].<ref>Tur and S"A 432:1, Kitzur S"A 111:7. See Rosh (Pesachim 1:10) as to why the bracha is with "Al Biur" and not "Leva'er".</ref>The reason that the text is [[Biur Chametz]] and not Bedikat Chametz is because Biur is the beginning of the Biur and if one does Bedika without doing Biur on whatever he finds one hasn't accomplished anything. <ref>Bet Yosef 432:1</ref> | ||
# After the Bedika one should recite the following form of [[bitul chametz]]: "כל חמירא וחמיעא דאיכא ברשותי, דלא חזיתיה ודלא בערתיה, לבטיל ולהוי הפקר כעפרא דארעא" meaning "All chametz or leaven in my possession that I have not seen, and have not destroyed, shall be nullified and become ownerless, like the dust of the earth."<ref>S"A 434:2, Mishna Brurah 434:8</ref> For more information, see the [[Bitul Chametz]] page. | |||
==When== | ==When== | ||
# One should perform bedikat chametz in the beginning of the night on the fourteenth of Nisan. <ref>Shulchan Arukh 431:1. Mishnah Berurah (431:1) writes that according to the Shulchan Arukh one should check after tzeit ha-kochavim. The Gr”a (431:1) cites the opinion of the Ra’avad who says that one should begin while there is still light outside. See Maaseh Rav (#178) who says that the Gra would begin Bedika slightly before [[Tzet HaKochavim]]. Nonetheless, Rabbi Eliyahu Spira in Eliyah Rabbah (431:5) explains that even the Gr”a agrees that one shouldn’t begin until tzeit ha-kochavim, however, at that time there still is a little bit of light outside.</ref> | # One should perform bedikat chametz in the beginning of the night on the fourteenth of Nisan. <ref>Shulchan Arukh 431:1. Mishnah Berurah (431:1) writes that according to the Shulchan Arukh one should check after tzeit ha-kochavim. The Gr”a (431:1) cites the opinion of the Ra’avad who says that one should begin while there is still light outside. See Maaseh Rav (#178) who says that the Gra would begin Bedika slightly before [[Tzet HaKochavim]]. Nonetheless, Rabbi Eliyahu Spira in Eliyah Rabbah (431:5) explains that even the Gr”a agrees that one shouldn’t begin until tzeit ha-kochavim, however, at that time there still is a little bit of light outside.</ref> | ||
