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# If one is unable to use a candle, one should use a flashlight. <Ref> Halichot Shlomo (vol 1, 5:11), Piskei Teshuvot 431:2 </ref> Some say that one can fulfill the obligation with a flashlight but the minhag is to use a candle or to begin with a candle. <Ref> Halachos of Pesach (pg 86) quoting Rav Aharon Kotler and Rav Moshe Feinstein that the flashlight sufficies. </ref> | # If one is unable to use a candle, one should use a flashlight. <Ref> Halichot Shlomo (vol 1, 5:11), Piskei Teshuvot 431:2 </ref> Some say that one can fulfill the obligation with a flashlight but the minhag is to use a candle or to begin with a candle. <Ref> Halachos of Pesach (pg 86) quoting Rav Aharon Kotler and Rav Moshe Feinstein that the flashlight sufficies. </ref> | ||
# One doesn’t have to turn off the electric lights while performing the Bedika. <Ref>Halachos of Pesach (pg 86) quoting Rav Moshe Feinstein, Piskei Teshuvot 431:2 saying that such is the minhag </ref> | # One doesn’t have to turn off the electric lights while performing the Bedika. <Ref>Halachos of Pesach (pg 86) quoting Rav Moshe Feinstein, Piskei Teshuvot 431:2 saying that such is the minhag </ref> | ||
# See also [[Flashlight for bedikat hcametz]] | |||
==If one didn’t do Bedika== | ==If one didn’t do Bedika== | ||
# If one didn’t do Bedika at night one should do so during the day before the sixth hour (halachic hours) and if one forgot to do it before the sixth hour one should still do it on Erev Pesach with a Bracha. <ref>S”A 435:1, Mishna Brurah 435:5 </ref> One can only do Bitul Chametz after the Bedika until the sixth hour of Erev Pesach. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 435:1 </ref> | # If one didn’t do Bedika at night one should do so during the day before the sixth hour (halachic hours) and if one forgot to do it before the sixth hour one should still do it on Erev Pesach with a Bracha. <ref>S”A 435:1, Mishna Brurah 435:5 </ref> One can only do Bitul Chametz after the Bedika until the sixth hour of Erev Pesach. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 435:1 </ref> | ||
