Erev Pesach

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Davening

  1. The Ashkenazi minhag is not to say Mizmor LeTodah on Erev Pesach. [1]

Time to stop eating Chametz

  1. From the beginning of the fifth hour (halachic hours) Chametz is forbidden to eat.[2]

Time to stop owning Chametz

  1. From the beginning of the sixth hour Chametz is also forbidden to derive benefit from. [3]

Eating Matzah before Pesach

  1. One shouldn’t eat Matzah on Erev Pesach [4] including the nighttime. [5]
  2. One should be strict not to have baked goods which include matzah meal such as Pesach cakes. [6]
  3. Some have the minhag not to eat Matzah from 30 days before Pesach [7], some have the minhag not to eat Matzah from the beginning of the month [8]and some have the minhag to eat it until Erev Pesach. [9]
  4. One shouldn’t eat Matzah before Pesach which was made without intent for the mitzvah of eating Matzah. [10]

Forbidden work on Erev Pesach

After Midday

  1. It is forbidden to do melacha on erev pesach after mid-day (Chatzot). [11]
  2. It is also forbidden to get a haircut or a shave unless by a non-Jew [12], to sew new clothing [13], and to do laundry except by a non-jew after mid-day. [14] Preferably one should cut his nails [15] and polish his shoes before mid-day. [16] All of the leniencies that apply to chol hamoed in these cases apply to erev pesach also. [17]
  3. It is permissible to iron clothes,[18] sew buttons, or perform minor mending even in a skilled manner. [19]

Before Chatzot

  1. If the custom in the community is not to work before chatzot, then one should follow that custom. If the custom is to work, then one is permitted to work. [20] Nowadays, the minhag is to work before chatzot. [21]

Sources

  1. ↑ Rama 429:2
  2. ↑ S”A 443:1
  3. ↑ S”A 443:1
  4. ↑ Rama 471:2
  5. ↑ Magan Avraham 471:6. The Chok Yaakov 471:7 quotes the Shiyarei Knesset Hagedola that some have the custom to refrain from eating matza from rosh chodesh nissan.
  6. ↑ Sh”t Shevet HaLevi 8:117, Piskei Teshuvot 471:3. See Halichot Shlomo 8:4 who writes that it’s permissible if in the kneading the dough lost its form as bread.
  7. ↑ Mishna Brurah 471:12, Sh”t Igrot Moshe 1:155
  8. ↑ Sh”t Igrot Moshe 1:155 says that such is the minhag of individuals
  9. ↑ Orchot Chaim Safinka 471:5
  10. ↑ Halichot Shlomo 8:3, Rabbi Mansour on dailyhalacha.com
  11. ↑ Shulchan Aruch 468:1. Mishna Berura 468:1 says based on a Yerushalmi quoted by Tosafot Pesachim 50a "makom shenahagu" that the reason for this is that it is when we brought korban pesach and the day which you bring a korban is a yom tov and work is forbidden midirabanan, and this prohibition applies nowadays even though we don't have the korban. Rashi there gives a different reason that we want people to be free to prepare for the seder and get rid of their chametz. Pnei Yehoshua there explains that it is because the rabbis gave erev pesach the status of chol hamoed. Biur Halacha "mechatzot u'limala" says that according to Tosafot's reason if Pesach falls out on erev shabbat, melacha is not prohibited until mincha. But he adds that for Rashi the prohibition would still apply even when Pesach falls out on erev shabbat it would still be forbidden after mid-day, but concludes that most poskim hold like tosafot so one doesn't need to be machmir.
  12. ↑ Mishna Berura 468:5
  13. ↑ Rama 468:2
  14. ↑ Mishna Berura 468:7. Piskei Teshuvot 468:6 says that even for a Jew to use a washing machine is forbidden but says it is permitted to turn on the machine before mid-day even if it will do the washing afterwards.
  15. ↑ Mishna Berura 468:5. Orchot Rabbeinu vol. 2 page 56 says this can be done without restrictions.
  16. ↑ Yabia Omer 1:32, Shearim HaMitzuyanim BiHalacha 133:6, Shemirat Shabbat Kihilchita 42 note 173, Piskei Teshuvos 468:4. Piskei Teshuvot 468:18 says polishing shoes is not allowed after chatzot, as does the Kitzur HaShl"a quoted in Teshuvot Vihanhagot 1:301.
  17. ↑ Mishna Berura 468:7. Rambam Hilchot Yom Tov 8:18 says that on erev pesach after chatzot it is asur to do melacha midirabanan like chol hamoed and it is more lenient than chol hamoed.
  18. ↑ Orchot Rabbeinu vol. 2 page 56. Shemirat Shabbat Kihilchita 42 note 139 says ironing is also allowed on chol hamoed.
  19. ↑ Rama 468:2. Mishna Berura 468:8 writes that you can also do these things for others without pay.
  20. ↑ Shulchan Aruch 468:3, Mishna Berura 468:12.
  21. ↑ Chayei Adam 129:4, Aruch Hashulchan 468:5.
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