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===One's car===
===One's car===
# It’s proper to check one’s car(s) for Chametz on the night of the 14th using a flashlight, otherwise, one should check it during the day. No Bracha is required for performing Bedika in a car. <Ref> Halichot Shlomo (vol 1, 5:5) writes that one should check the cars on the night of the 14th and if not then it should be cjecked on the day. Halichot Shlomo and Halachos of [[Pesach]] (pg 71) in name of Rav Moshe Feinstein hold that no Bracha is made on this Bedika. </ref>  
# It’s proper to check one’s car(s) for Chametz on the night of the 14th using a flashlight. Otherwise, one should check it during the day. No Bracha is required for performing Bedika in a car. <ref> Yechave Daat 1:5 and Halichot Shlomo (vol 1, 5:5) write that one should check the cars on the night of the 14th and if not then it should be checked on the day. Halichot Shlomo and Halachos of [[Pesach]] (pg 71) in name of Rav Moshe Feinstein hold that no Bracha is made on this Bedika. Yechave Daat 1:5 also agrees. </ref>
# Public bus companies or airplane companies that are Jewish must check for Chametz before Pesach. <ref> Yechave Daat 1:5 </ref>
 
===The Shul===
===The Shul===
# A gabbai or other appointed individual should perform Bedika in the Shul or Bet Midrash. Some say that one should make a Bracha on this Bedika <ref>Mishna Brurah 433:10, S”A HaRav 433, Sh”t Teshuvot Vehanhagot 1:287 </ref>, and some say that one shouldn’t make a Bracha <ref> Sh”t Maharsham 5:49, Aruch HaShulchan 433:12 </ref> and it’s preferable to have the one doing the Bedika to make a Bracha for Bedika of his home and then do Bedika in the Shul (without making an interruption not relevant to the Bedika). <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 433:6 </ref>
# A gabbai or other appointed individual should perform Bedika in the Shul or Bet Midrash. Some say that one should make a Bracha on this Bedika <ref>Mishna Brurah 433:10, S”A HaRav 433, Sh”t Teshuvot Vehanhagot 1:287 </ref>, and some say that one shouldn’t make a Bracha <ref> Sh”t Maharsham 5:49, Aruch HaShulchan 433:12 </ref> and it’s preferable to have the one doing the Bedika to make a Bracha for Bedika of his home and then do Bedika in the Shul (without making an interruption not relevant to the Bedika). <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 433:6 </ref>