PeSach Halachot When It Begins Motzei Shabbat 2025/5785

I want to cover cover a little bit uh of uh alot today uh because I don't know what the schedule is going to be especially as things are getting really really busy right now uh the days are getting longer uh and the uh the burden is getting bigger and I don't know what the schedule is going to be before pes and so on so because this year's pes is different than it typically is uh If a person does not learn of pes uh for sure they are uh almost guaranteed that they'll going to be eating on this pes coming up and the reason why is by is because unlike other years where pesover is uh usually during a weekday uh this year pes is on m shabbat uh which creates a lot of confusion for people as far as uh burning the KTS uh but at the same time eating and so on and so forth. So we'll go briefly into a few things. Uh I'll try to be as quick as possible but again I highly recommend you take notes and if you're not able to catch up then just simply watch this again tomorrow and take down the notes. Uh because again it's a a person that eats a Jew that eats on it's okay. It's it's a it's a it's it's the worst thing in the world. So, you have to be careful of what uh what you do. It's not a uh pes is not a suggestion. It's not a uh you know custom. It's an obligation from form to preserve it. And uh there's a few major mitzvot. First and foremost, a lot of the things that I'm going to say I learned with my RAV uh a lot of it is based on uh the from Rava uh from the uh uh but of course if you are uh uh have a different scheme if you're orish and so on then you have to check with your own post scheme on some slight changes that may be from time to time but generally speaking most of what I'm talking to you is almost certainly uh for uh okay but uh for sure for all sphartic Jews. Okay. So typically there is before pes which is the fast of the firstborn uh but be uh but because which is the uh uh something that's we do every year and uh but this year because pes is on Shabbat on Saturday night uh we cannot fast on Shabbat we cannot fast on Friday. So, some uh say that you could you fast on Thursday on Thursday night even though the actual uh the holiday this year starts on Saturday. Uh they say you fast on Thursday, but the says that since the the fast was moved, it's not typically uh uh this way. uh then technically you don't even need to fast but writes that you uh if you don't want to fast and simply go listen to someone uh complete a and uh like most people do every year and that will uh not only uh uh be a mitzvah that you're a part of but also absolve you from the uh scheme that ruled that you should fast even though they was moved. So the point being is so that would be on Thursday. Thursday. Okay. So you can hear uh and uh be absolved from it. But again for anyone that is sick, for anyone that's pregnant or just gave birth or anything like that, you don't need to fast at all. Uh next thing is in regards to the checking of the kits. Checking is typically done on the 14th of Nissan, but this year it will be done on the 13th, which is the Thursday. Thursday night is when there will be the checking for the Kamet, which means that the fast is actually done this year before the checking of the KT. So, it's not that's usually that's the opposite. Uh, so this year the checking the KT is done on Thursday night. uh where uh you um uh you put uh the custom is uh to to put some you know some one of your family members to put 10 pieces uh that are small than kazite uh uh small pieces of kt in different parts of the house and then you uh go look for it with a uh candle or if it's dangerous then you could do with a flashlight even uh and uh uh Some say it's uh very good to use also a um a feather uh to look at different creases and look for the KTS some uh from a few hundred years ago uh uh actually frowned upon this uh custom of hiding in case a person uh doesn't find it. But nonetheless, the person that hides it should, if you have a big house, you should write it on a piece of paper where you hid every single one in case uh the uh the family members that are looking for the cannot find it. But is part of the of you have to make a specific blessing on the you will find that in the peso which is you specific prayer book for the time of pes. So there's a special prayer that you do now. Now since the actual holiday itself doesn't begin until Saturday, what what happens there? That's really where the confusion is because even though you're looking for, you're still technically allowed to eat throughout all of Thursday night, all of Friday, and until uh Pesak officially begins somewhere around 10 to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday afternoon. Uh so a uh the reality is is that you're looking for kts, but you're still going to have some kits left. So what do you do with this ktz? This ktz that you're going to be using to eat Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday morning, you put it in a one part of your house, whether it's going to be a certain section of your kitchen or or or wherever you want to put it, but it should be all of it in one place. The rest of the house should be clean already for pes ready for pes. But just the uh uh utensils, pots and pans, and food that's still that you're going to be using for those next uh uh uh day and a half uh should be in one section in the uh the house. Uh now uh until again uh Saturday uh which again over here for example the uh the last time to eat is going to be the morning meal morning meal of Shabbat which has to end uh here in Florida in Cooper City has to end at 11:20 a.m. Okay. In Israel on the other hand where Rab Fry is it's around 10:00 a.m. 10 10:15 something like that. You have to check uh with uh the uh uh uh apps that you have or websites based on your zip code when is the last time to eat on Saturday. For all of us, it's Saturday, but just different times depending on where you are in the world. So, which means that again, you're checking for that's not the one that you're going to be eating during the the next day or a half or so. Okay. Uh after that you have to on Friday on Friday you have to burn the KTS burn the KT that you're not going to be eating burn the KTS and the uh this is going to be on Friday morning and even though you're still allowed again you're allowed to eat KTS for Friday night and actually need to eat technically uh for Shabbat and and and for Saturday morning uh the uh you still have that uh you're not you know you're not going eat. Now if it is uh uh you know closed packaging of things uh you want to keep them then you can sell that ktz it's completely closed untouched and so on you can sell that kt there are different websites or your local rabbi in the community uh I'm sure have some type of an arrangement with a non-Jew that would buy the kits for the duration of the holiday uh so you could sell the kits that's only closed but if you have that's uh that's opened uh unless it's expensive liquor uh you have to throw it out. Don't uh play games with this. And also if it's a uh uh things that uh are uh are not going to uh keep, you know, because they're going to expire and things like that. Again, this is part of the stuff that you uh uh you burn as part of the burning of the KTS. Some communities, most communities, Jewish communities have a uh fire and usually in a some type of a uh barrel that everybody throws their kits in there on Friday morning. And the time to do it is like it would be done in a typical year. Uh morning morning uh morning time somewhere around uh a little bit before noon before noon. uh selling the kits that you want to keep for to use it after after pes uh is to be done ideally on Thursday on Thursday but it's okay to even sell the kits this year on Friday because again you're technically allowed to eat it until Saturday morning until Shabbat morning uh but uh ideally to sell it on Thursday uh but uh you can sell it even on Friday I wouldn't recommend uh uh waiting for the uh last minute when you're burning the uh remember to do the uh the blessing. Uh but when you're when you're selling the KT that you do without blessing, there's no uh uh the blessing that you're doing as far as the uh the cancellation of the KT that's left you do on Shabbat afternoon. Shabbat afternoon is when you do that uh particular blessing. Uh so now uh on uh Friday you're allowed to do meot uh because it's not yum. So you're allowed to do uh you know with cook, clean, whatever it is that you need to do. But again remember it's you're preparing for the uh you know a long holiday uh and it's an important holiday. This is a uh uh one of the foundations of of Judaism. It's not one of those holidays where it's like a custom. Uh it's you have to uh be prepared for this. [Music] Um now uh as far as uh a little bit of a reminder for Shabbat that uh when you are uh you know let's say eating on Friday night and after you finish eating if you you know you you want to wash the dishes with you know with a uh uh you know something that's a uh not a sponge. You're not allowed to wash with a sponge. But if you have something that has holes in it, like a net and you want to put soap on it, you're allowed. But that's only if you're going to use these utensils and uh and different plates and so on on Shabbat. But if you're not going to use them on Shabbat, you're not allowed to wash them on Shabbat. So, for example, if you want to wash things on Friday night, no problem. But after on a typical Shabbat, you're not allowed to wash the dishes because Shabbat's over. So, you're not going to be able to uh you know, an hour later or two hours later. So, you're not going to be able to use those pots and pans and different things later on. So, if you're washing dishes, even if it's in a kosher way on Shabbat, it's a uh you know, after you're violating Shabbat. Uh but here you have to remember that uh you know the uh the dishes that you're using on uh Friday night unless they are uh uh dishes that are uh you throw out in the garbage, you know, the uh the uh uh plastic dishes and things like that that you throw out. These dishes you could only wash on Friday, you know, to use them on Saturday morning. Uh but after the uh Saturday morning meal, you're not allowed to wash those dishes or the pots and pans that you had the food in because you're no longer going to be able to use them after that morning meal because they're all full of kits. Okay. So that's why it is highly recommended not to make dishes like uh chulant and other types of dishes that stick to the pots and pans uh because you're not going to be able to wash them, you know, for for the duration of the uh of the holiday because they're kits. You have to after the meal on a uh on uh Saturday morning, you have to put away all of the kits. whatever uh uh bread you still have left, you have to crumble it into little tiny crumbs that are all little tiny crumbs and then throw it out. Uh whatever food you have that's come, you throw everything out. Uh you uh the pots and pans, forks, knives, that's uh not plastic, you're not throwing that out. All that stuff, you have to put it away in a section of your house that you're not going to enter and not going to use for the whole duration of the holiday. Uh so again, you cannot wash your on Saturday on Shabbat because again, you're not allowed to have it uh after that morning meal. And you have to make sure that you remember that uh you need to find out the exact time that uh you're no longer allowed to eat and have because you have to not only finish the meal, you have to put all this stuff away before that time. So if you like in for example in uh in uh Israel 10:00 in the morning uh then that means that you have to pray morning nets you know 6:00 in the morning prayer get home uh usually there's no kdus whatsoever in the synagogues this year on on uh on on pes because everybody has to hurry home and have the meal uh before the the time's up and then clean up everything you know any that's left throw it in the garbage any uh uh pots, pans, whatever, put them away. If the if you uh disregarded my advice and uh you can, you know, you had you made yourself chulant or one of these dishes that the food sticks to the pots and pans, whatever, you're not able to throw out because it's stuck to the pan. You have to leave it as is and uh put it in something a garbage bag or so on so there's no bugs in your house. But the reality is it was a a lot of people what they do uh in this time type of time is usually they make uh either dishes that are not sticky uh easily washable and uh easily uh uh you can empty it out and it's not going to uh stick to anything or they make meonote like pizza and other types of mezzonote for that Saturday morning uh meal. Uh now uh as far as the um uh the rest is to make sure that uh you know that uh the all the are allowed on Friday but not on Saturday because it's still Shabbat. So the uh preparation for the as far as the washing of the you can't do it on Saturday. Okay? you have to, you know, clean the mar and the uh the uh the uh the leaves and so on from bugs and and so on. You have to do that on Friday. You can't do it on Shabbat because then it would be a Shabbat called. So, you can't clean the on uh on Shabbat. You have to do it on Friday. also recommended for you to uh weigh the matsot uh because the matzah it's not just eating matzah and you know when however you feel like whenever there's an obligation to eat matzah on the sedel for people that live in Israel only on the first night for people that live in the exa like us it's two nights and you have to eat kazite a kazite amount four times which is a uh you know the what we go by is 30 grams Okay. So, you have to, you know, you're not going to know how much 30 grams is because people think, "Oh, yeah, you know, 30 grams is a small little piece." No, it depends what kind of matzah you have. If you have one of these machine matzas that are square, it's almost 3/4 of the matzah. You're going to have to eat that four times. Okay? If you have, let's say, one of these mats, the round matzahas, then it depends how thick that matzah is, and you have to break off a piece and weigh it. Get a scale and weigh. But you have to do that on Friday. On Friday, you can't do it on Shabbat. It'll be Shabbat. Uh you have to do on Friday. If you have something called which is the uh uh matzah that's similar to pa, but it's kosher uh that's made then usually it's a uh little less than a quarter of the uh of the uh of the pa because it's a very heavy uh uh in weight. So point is you have to do this this stuff you know before pes and you have however many members of your family and people that are attending your really what it should be is each person should have his uh uh kasa is and his matzah all in different uh uh uh in bags like uh you know these ziplockc bags where they know okay this is my four servings of the matzah to fulfill the obligation of eating matzah on the sedel this is the uh that I'm going to eat for the and each person should have his own little thing where you know of course usually the mom is the one that does the job or or or the father if the father's doing it but the point being is don't leave it up to oh yeah we'll just figure it out as we go because what ends up happening is people sed they eat like horses but they end up not fulfilling the mitzvah because they don't know how much to eat. Uh also you have to know that to eat the matzah uh you have to eat it within 4 minutes. Uh unless it's a child that's uh before bar mitzvah or it's someone sick then you have up to 9 minutes. These seem difficult at first. It seems burdensome. It seems ridiculous. Why do they care? How this how that? But that's the reality. This is what wants from us. And anyone that's a live that's a has a wise heart will simply just take notes follow what it says and move on with it and just do what Hashem says and that's it. And not just make all types of excuses of why he doesn't or he doesn't want and all that types of stuff. Just simply do it. It's not that difficult especially when you want to do it. Uh so preparation as far as the as far as the matzah on Friday not on Shabbat. Okay. on uh um on Saturday morning the uh the prayer at the synagogue or if you're praying by yourself at home uh because your synagogue and your community is closed or for whatever other reason you have to pray early morning uh because you need to make sure to make the time to have the suda for Shabbat uh before that midday which again midday right now in Florida is somewhere around 11 11:20 in Israel it's somewhere around uh 10 10:20 again you have to check with your own uh community where it starts uh you end eating on uh again at that time at that time it's not just end eating it but also have to move everything already before that time uh put in a specific section in your house that you're not going to use or in a garbage that's why a lot of people usually for for this type of Shabbat for this that comes uh before pes many people use everything uh as a disposable, you know, disposable spoons and knives, disposable plates, and in certain places that have it available to them, disposable pots and pans. Uh uh so I mean, there is a uh there's disposable everything these days. So, uh it's it's best to have one of these disposable pots and pans and so on that you're making food in because that way you don't have to worry about cleaning anything or bugs. Everything goes in the garbage. That's it. Finished. Uh that's the ideal situation if you have it available to you. Now the um the Sudan on Friday night, Sudan on Friday night, you have to have mozzi. You have to have uh something that will do mozzar. Now you're allowed to eat matzah on Friday. Uh but you're not allowed to eat matzah on Saturday this because you're not allowed to eat. We'll go into that in a moment. But on Saturday, you can eat matzah if you want, but you still have to do mozzi. And a lot of puskims say that you're not allowed to do mozzi on matzah during the year. It's a and therefore you have to eat bread. You have to eat bread to do the mozzy on the bread. Uh so uh and your meal is uh uh but point is it's either way you have to have the mozzy on Friday night. Um now on the uh after the uh meal of Saturday morning you do the kit which is cancellation of the one that you know of that's you go throwing in the garbage. the one that you uh don't know don't know of that uh you haven't found perhaps or you you didn't realize you had there's a certain blessing that you say that's okay now you're not allowed to eat matzah on the day of pes the section 10 number one says anyone that eats matzah on the day of pes Eve is like a person who was intimate with his fiance inside his father-in-laws or future father-in-law's house. Okay, it's to that extent. It's frowned upon and forbidden to that extent. Again, says anyone that eats matzah on the day of pes, meaning before the is like someone that was intimate with his future wife, not his current wife, in his father-in-law's house. That's how much disrespectful it is. Why? You you went too uh too early. You went too early. You're not supposed to eat matzah before the uh now some uh don't eat matzah the whole month the whole month to make sure that they you know are going to really celebrate eating the matzah when the time comes and it's really special. Some don't eat it the whole week before pes army and the the general custom among most people is simply not to eat matzah just that day but for sure not to eat matzah that day. You're allowed to eat matzah on Friday. Okay. But Saturday, no matzah until the itself. Until the sed itself. Now the uh um now this creates a issue. The fact that we're not allowed to eat matzah creates an issue. What's the issue? What do you do for the third meal of Shabbat? You have the first meal of Shabbat on Friday night. The second meal of Shabbat is on Saturday morning. And the third meal of Shabbat is usually about an hour and a half, two hours before the end of Shabbat. Now, since this year, Pes already starts at around 10 to 11:00 in the morning and you're no longer allowed to eat. Okay? That means you can't have forashit. At the same token, you're also not allowed to eat matzah. You're not allowed to eat matzah on sudashit either. So, what do you do? So, some people will eat what's called a rich matzah, which is a uh uh matzah that's made with wine and flour and sugar. So, it's say it lost in essence its matzah taste. Or they eat uh fried matzah or cooked matzah. This obviously always cooked or fried before Shabbat. Uh, and they're allowed to eat that because these types of matzas have lost their real matzah taste. Uh, but I love a shalom would not eat at all sudashit would not eat sudashit at all. uh and instead would share secrets of the Torah during that time because he said that you cannot eat kala because it's and you cannot eat matzah because as we just said it's forbidden. So he says what do we do? Let's just eat more and prepare ourselves for the sed that's coming up in several hours and make sure to arrive at that very hungry. Now that's also another thing that even if you eat other things, you want to eat fruits, you want to eat vegetables, you want to eat other stuff, that's fine. But make sure that or if let's say you're eating the uh the rich matzah or the fried matzah, all these other things that are allowed to eat, it's fine. But make sure you don't stuff your face to the point where you know a few hours later when you have to do the sedil, you're uh still full and you don't because you have to arrive at the sed hungry. Hungry because you have that's that's that's the way you're supposed to eat matzah. Okay. So uh it's it's important for a person to know now if somebody is going to eat fried matzah or cooked matzah or rich matzah uh then uh if they eat just a small piece uh then they do a ending blessing on it uh but if they eat 216 grams which is pretty decent it's a lot but nonetheless if they eat 216 grams of the uh of this matzah Then they have to do actual birkamon. Uh but again don't eat too much so you still stay hungry for the sedil. Now u when it comes to matash mua matash muah these are the round matzas that are uh typically used for the sedil. It's not recommended to use those machine matzahas for the sedil. Uh because there's a whole of even if it's considered matzah or not. Point being is you're going to have to cough up some money on buying the round matas if you want to uh celebrate the holiday uh the uh in a in a better way. Uh it's uh if anyone that uh wants to uh get it and uh doesn't have it available locally to them or they want something that's extra special uh can contact me and I'll connect you with uh one of my uh dear friends that is uh selling that matzah. Uh it's uh it's it's not cheap. Don't ask for discounts. This is not the time to save money. Pesak is expensive. Uh but nonetheless, it's a uh one of the biggest expenses is matzah. One of the biggest expenses is matzah. So you can get these matash maha uh from anywhere from, you know, 30 bucks to of a box of one pound to 700. There's even some as much as $500. Uh I think it's a little crazy but nonetheless they are they exist they exist in the world. Uh everyone has their own and so on and so forth. The point being is it's a uh you have to make sure that you have uh solid good matzah. If you don't know you know all these stores sell different matzas. Uh I wouldn't necessarily say always buy the most expensive because the most expensive doesn't necessarily mean uh it's a it's a uh it's the best. I wouldn't necessarily buy the cheapest just because you know sometimes things are cheap for a reason. uh but you know try to look at who's the who actually did the on this uh and uh you know it's more wellnown uh and accepted among the better it is like if it's let's say for example a specific type of that's only accepted among let's say their own but let's say the and don't accept it while you have another choice of matzah where everybody accepts their and which is almost you know unrealistic but nonetheless if there's one that has that everybody accepts get that one versus the one that's only accepted among others. This is sometimes common among for example uh meat uh there are many people that do not uh uh eat meat from let's say dash of certain people or certain organizations uh for for all their own reasons. So uh you know have uh to have a bet uh but at the same token if bet is not available uh you know some will go to other uh other but they won't eat they won't eat why that's the they have their own reasons but in other places some people no they won't eat the this one but they'll eat another one. It's not racism or or or prejudice. Everybody has their own reasons for doing it. And I know that's one of the things that's making this uh uh distribution this that we're doing distributing food to poor that's actually one of the dilemmas that we're dealing with because we because we've distributed so much food and money in over the last few years. We've now made contact for the first time ever with the actual distributor itself, meaning the the company that supplies the supermarket rather than buying everything from supermarkets. We're uh trying to actually buy everything from the actual wholesaler. So that way each family will get practically double the food that we would typically get them because we buy them from supermarket. So let's say a thousand uh a thousand that's going to uh uh shekels that's let's say going to get uh I don't know let's say 10 chickens and uh this piece of meat and that piece of this all these different now that's when you buy from a supermarket but when you buy it from the wholesaler it's now 20 20 chickens and so it's a that because obviously everybody has a markup so we prefer to obviously give the families much more food we're not looking to save money we're still going to give the same amount of uh it's just that we're going to have the ability to give more food to these families which will last them the whole holiday not just the so that's one of the things that we're having a tough time with is when it comes to meat okay because when it comes to chicken there is a uh a kash or chicken that most people accept in is but when it comes to meat it's virtually impossible to find uh two communities that eat the same type of of meat. He wants he wants bad, he wants, everybody has their own thing. So, it's impossible to supply this to so many hundreds of families uh and cater it to each and every single person and so on. So, most likely we're not going to do meat at all. We're just going to do a lot of chicken and obviously other fish, salmon. Each one is going to get a salmon that uh is a little bit bigger than a baby. It's so we're working on the point I'm trying to make is that when it comes to is very important. You can't just eat anything that has a K on it. You have to look at things and sometimes it's less important. Sometimes it's more important, you know. So, for example, when it comes to meat, the most important part of the meat is who actually uh supervised this uh this kashoot. That's the most important part of any meat. It's not if this is a uh uh this or that or it's who who supervised it. Why? Because if the supervisor is one of these reform mentality supervisors, it's might not even be kosher. Might not even be kosher. Uh and on the other hand, when it comes to things that are parv, then there's less of an issue because again, it's less things can go wrong. But when it comes to mats, when it comes to mats, most people are not going to know all of because there's a lot of uh uh um seasonal operations of different rabbis and that only uh function once a year to make the mats. Uh so you're not going to see their stamp on other food throughout the rest of the year. But if it is possible for you to get some type of word of mouth or or or some type of recommendation of one over another, uh not just because of price, it is recommended to uh uh uh to uh to get those. Again, like I said, I have a friend that deals with it. Anyone that wants to deal with it, uh uh we could uh help. But again, don't break my head and give me work to do. That's also as a side note, there's a few of you that God bless you. I you know I try to do everything but you guys are sending me homework like hey rabbi why don't you read this article let me know what you think you know they send me like a five-page article they want me to read it go find go read it yourself you know don't give me homework you know it's it's a lot of people are sending me this like you know missions oh rabbi can you look into this bedin and tell me what you think of them you know how long that stuff takes you can't give pe you have to ask specific questions so again it's a I I appreciate that everybody cares about my opinion so much and what I think of certain things. But, you know, you have to realize that I have literally tens of thousands of people that I deal with regularly, hundreds of emails and messages every single day. It's simply not possible for me to address some of these projects that people send me on. Uh, and the same thing goes with these mats. You want me to help you? I'll give you the contact information. You do everything from that point. We could uh uh uh uh help you by simply uh making the transaction for you. You send the the money, we'll send them the the address and they'll ship you the matas and that's it. Don't ask, oh yeah, I don't like it. Return policies. No returns. It's just simply doing a service. You want it, get it. You don't want it. Go buy it from your local store. And but this is again only if you are domestic in the United States. Don't ask me for any shipments into uh different countries. It's not the time. Um anyway, back to the mat again. This is the mat you're going to be using. This is the mat that you're going to be using for the and for for for the pes. Now, you could eat those square mats if you want during the holiday. But for the it should be a mat. Uh or if you have if you like the which is the soft matas. Uh but again those you have to be very very careful with the uh I know that Moshe uh he's the head of the Jerusalem he is he has a recipe from uh from hundreds and hundreds of years that he uh makes those every year. Sometimes we get them uh that's actually going to be part of the things we give out to the families in Isl that are uh needy uh and but even those again not everybody uh wants them. and say I'm only going to get those fill out from a rabbi that I know. So if they don't know Rabbi Gdon, which is unusual, but nonetheless, some people won't know him, they won't accept it. So you have to be careful with people care about even more so in Israel than they do here in America. But the point being is is that that matah that matah that you're going to eat, you're not allowed to carry it on Shabbat. What? Why? It's considered muk. Considered muk. Why? Because you're not allowed to eat it. You're not allowed to eat it. And therefore, you're not allowed to touch it. So, don't like uh uh set up anything during the day of Shabbat. Don't set up anything during the day of Shabbat. In fact, in regards to setting up for the for the you're not allowed to do that on Shabbat because you're not allowed to prepare for Shabbat on Shabbat and you're not allowed to prepare for a holiday on Shabbat. You're only allowed to do things on Shabbat that are relevant to Shabbat. So, when can you prepare for the S, especially if you're expecting a lot of guests? The earliest time. The earliest time that you're allowed to start setting up the table for the earliest time is 13 and a half minutes after sunset. If you start setting up the table for the start setting up the everything for the before that you start doing it in the afternoon, you start doing it even 15 minutes before sunset you are a Shabbat. You're violating Shabbat. Okay. Not allowed to do it. You have to take this this is people could literally lose their for minute because they they have anxiety problems. So you have to know 13 and a half minutes before sunset is the earliest. Personally, I recommend you wait a little bit. Wait a little bit. Start doing everything already uh after. But again, if you want to do it 13, you know, at that time, that's perfectly fine. Some women have a lot of guests and a lot of anxiety to go with it. Uh they want to get every minute that they can. That's no problem. But again, don't do it u too early because if you do it too early, it's a very very serious problem. Uh now um during the uh prayer uh that uh before the actual itself instead of which usually you do in on you actually add a prayer called uh is what you're adding to the prayer at that point. It's similar to but it's not the same. This you'll see also in now when it comes to Abdalah Abdalah is on Shabbat Abdullah is part of the it's not separate like it is every single week. It's actually part of the okay part of the part of everything. Trying from the beginning you're going from into the it's not like two separate things. Okay. So you have to dodah this year is only with uh wine and the fire. No besame. No besame because the besame is usually to make the feel bad feel better because the extra left. But since we're going from kesh to kesh from holiness of Shabbat to the holiness of yumto of pes then the extra stays doesn't leave. Okay. So uh there's no needed uh so you do it on wine you say the prayer is instead of from holiness to the mundane we say. Okay. Okay. So you have to pay attention to that. That is again usually in a beginning of your uh weem will be coming out as an organization again this year with an agada in Hebrew Hebrew only with newim by uh we're going to be printing uh a thousand copies in uh hard copy. It's going to be beautiful beautiful. I just got the uh uh messages today with the uh the stuff. will have a online digital version available. But I personally myself like uh hard copy. So if you uh uh have a hard copy available to you uh then you should definitely get that. But if you have a uh um uh you don't have it then then obviously you could download it from our website dada uh you'll have um we have a English version from last year but that hasn't been updated and also there's a few uh errors that need to be fixed which I don't think we'll have the time to do before pes it's not like the worst mistakes in the world or anything but it's just a few errors if you compare the Hebrew to the English is a few minor errors. I personally would recommend somebody getting it from a uh store. Uh if you need the English version, getting something from a store to buy something. Uh personally, I like a uh uh the the cats. Uh cats is uh uh uh uh a has beautiful drawings. The kids love it. And drawings are not just beautiful drawings, but the actual drawings that are based on the midrash. Uh so each drawing has significance to it. Point being is uh this is what I would recommend. But of course there are countless agot if you have one or you want to buy one. There's plenty of them available on different websites on uh art scroll on Felheim on uh Safarim Center on Mnim and uh countless other Judeica stores and so on. Get yourself an agada but make sure you get it for your custom. Don't buy a Ashkanazi agada if you're sphartic. Don't buy a if you're unless you know there's a specific difference. Like for example, the cat's agada is actually but I know the difference between the two and I know where to make the certain changes. I like it for my kids. I like it for my kids because it's the most visually appealing agada that I've seen. So I I give it to them and they're babies, you know, five year four four years old, five, six years old. It's a little kid, so it's not they don't necessarily need to know every single word. So whenever I need to make a change, I make a change. But uh you know someone that's getting it for themselves if you're reading it for everybody and you're you know either know the difference and ahead of time and know where to uh make the changes which the biggest difference usually is in the uh and the uh but there are some other minor differences between uh but if you don't know the differences then get your traditions uh your customs a uh it's a it is it is what is uh as far as the again like I said it's part of the uh on the uh you do first you do gein uh then you do uh the uh uh kush then you do a uh the fire okay which uh that will we'll elaborate and finish at that point which is again the fire which is the abd fire uh when you say go kesh kesh Now the fire is a problem. Why is the fire a problem? Because the you know the you can't light a new fire at this moment because it's even though you just finished Shabbat it's Shabbat but it's Yum. You not can't light a new fire. Okay. You can't light a new fire. So, uh, what you have to do is have a long lasting candle, at least 48 hours lit before Shabbat. Before Shabbat, I personally recommend lighting two, just in case one goes out. a 48 hour 72-hour candle that you can light before Shabbat because if you want to cook on the Yum to which is one major difference that you're allowed to do on Yum to uh versus Shabbat you're allowed to cook but you're only allowed to cook with fire to fire meaning it has to be a existing fire lighting uh uh the uh new fire versus a uh uh a new fire creating. So you have to have an existing fire. So you have to have a candle already lit from before Shabbat. Okay? So you have a 48 hour candle or 72-hour candle that you're using and but that candle you can't use it for. You can't use that. Why? Because the candle over those 25 hours that Shabbat exists that candle goes down. Okay? And as soon as that candle goes down now it starts to be covered by the glass or or whatever is covering the candle itself. Okay? And now according to you can no longer use that candle for abdah because even though it's fire the fire that you're seeing uh against your fingernails when you're when you're doing the abdah is not the actual fire itself but a reflection of the fire and it's not permissible fordah. This also actually is a kush uh for many of us simply because you have a big candle uh that's beautiful and everything but that candle after a while after a few times you've used it for abdah starts sinking in and you know if you didn't realize what the is you're still using that candle but the says that you have to have a raised fire you have to have a fire that's high that's why a lot of people use that uh candle that's very long because the uh the the wicks are at the top of it so it doesn't matter how much of it you've used, the fire is always on top. Okay? So, you what you want to do is that you don't want to have a uh a really long candle for this specific because what are you going to do with it after you can't, you know, you can't turn it off. So what some people do is they either they either take that long candle and just cut a small piece of it and you know connect it to a holder where even uh after you light it burns off eventually and it's like a small candle but it's still at the top or you use like one of those like Shabbat candles uh that eventually uh uh burn off. You don't want this whole candle long candle uh you know burning for so long. It could become uh a little dangerous because again it's not like the ones that are in a glass. Point being is is that it has to be fired to fire uh and uh so use the existing fire that you lit on Friday to light the havdala candle and make sure the havdala candle is short uh but yet the fire is at the top of it not sinking in is short. So the fire eventually goes out that night and not something that lasts, you know, multiple uh days. Uh okay. So don't light like another uh uh 72-hour candle with that uh uh with that, you know, for Adala. Um that's a about sums it up for for the of the section. Uh, last thing I would say is in regards to the rest of the holiday, obviously for the exile, we have two sedals. Every Jew that lives in the exile has to do two sedals. You cannot just do one. You have to do two and they're exactly the same. There's no difference. Two, you have to drink four glasses of wine or grape juice. Uh, you have to eat the matzah, four servings. Uh, the read the entire agada. Uh, enjoy. Make sure not to fight, have a good time. The main part of the sed is to teach the children of the house about that's the main part. So even if you have the uh the most important uh rabbi in the world, most important person in the world as a guest in your house, as a guest in your house, you have to make them secondary to your children. Why? The main thing is to tell your children about until everybody's tired and they go to sleep. But that's the main thing. The the main thing of PES is not to host guests. The main thing of PES is to actually teach your children about the uh uh the Exodus. Uh and that's the most important part. And if you don't have kids, then tell the story to your wife. And if you don't have a wife, then tell the story to yourself. Point is, you have to do as much as possible on the uh on both nights. on both nights. The more you say, the more uh praiseworthy you are. Then after the second night, you have a lot of people think that is just a day off, you go back to work. Wrong. People that desecrate and treat it like a regular day and they just go back to work uh unnecessarily can lose their okay you're only allowed to work on if not working will create a loss. Meaning, if let's say you go to work, you make money, and you don't go to work, you don't make money. That's not considered a loss. That's just considered, you know, you're not making a a profit. But if your boss tells you if you don't work on you're going to get fired, then you're allowed to work on that's only on not on Yum. On Yum, there's no working. On Shabbat, there's no working. Doesn't matter what your boss says. But on there's only permission to work. And uh if it's going to uh uh if not working would create a loss. Uh if not working create a loss. Same thing with uh investments. Uh you know, you're only allowed to deal with the investments if the uh not doing something would create a loss. Like you can't buy anything new, but you can sell, you can exit positions or you close out positions. Uh unless again what you're buying is a hedge. Point being is you have to know that is a still a holiday. It's still a holiday. It's not a time to just go back as if there's no holiday. Uh you have to make sure that you honor the holiday. So with that being said, uh that's in essence sums it up of this year's uh pes. If you have any other questions, you could ask them privately if I need to look up stuff or anything that I didn't cover. But that's in essence pretty much it. [Music] Israel. [Music] for the color of the [Music] arms. for the game forchech. [Music] Hi everyone, just wanted to remind you that we're having our annual campaign every year. We do a campaign for PES and also all the other holidays to distribute food and money to Torah scholars in we continue to reach bigger and bigger milestones and this year is no different. We not only want to help them, we want to help you. 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