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# A person shouldn’t start a job or start eating (a KeBeitzah of bread) from a half hour before [[Tzet HaKochavim]], until one has done Bedika.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 431:2, Mishna Brurah 432:5-6, [https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?v=106099 Rav Shmuel Fuerst (min 3)] </ref> However, one may continue to eat fruit a half hour before [[Tzet HaKochavim]], but not after [[Tzet HaKochavim]]. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 432:6 </ref> | # A person shouldn’t start a job or start eating (a KeBeitzah of bread) from a half hour before [[Tzet HaKochavim]], until one has done Bedika.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 431:2, Mishna Brurah 432:5-6, [https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?v=106099 Rav Shmuel Fuerst (min 3)]. Gemara Pesachim 4a forbids learning once it is the time for bedika and the Ritva writes that if learning is forbidden, certainly other activities. Meor Yisrael Pesachim 4a shows that most rishonim think that the prohibition indeed only starts at Tzet Hakochavim, however, the Magen Avraham has a nuance that it begins from a half hour beforehand and one shouldn't veer from that ruling unless there is a great need. </ref> However, one may continue to eat fruit a half hour before [[Tzet HaKochavim]], but not after [[Tzet HaKochavim]].<Ref>Mishna Brurah 432:6 </ref> | ||
# A person shouldn’t start learning from [[Tzet HaKochavim]] until one has done Bedika. Some add that one may not learn from a half hour before [[Tzet HaKochavim]] and some permit until [[Tzet HaKochavim]]. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 431:7 </ref> | # A person shouldn’t start learning from [[Tzet HaKochavim]] until one has done Bedika. Some add that one may not learn from a half hour before [[Tzet HaKochavim]] and some permit until [[Tzet HaKochavim]].<Ref>Gemara Pesachim 4a, Mishna Brurah 431:7. Rav Ovadia Yosef in Meor Yisrael Pesachim 4a is lenient for learning within the half hour of Tzet until it is actually Tzet. </ref> | ||
# If one began to learn, work, or eat during the day and continued into the night, according to Sephardim one doesn’t have to stop to do Bedika, and according to Ashkenazim one must stop at [[Tzet HaKochavim]] in order to perform Bedika. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch and Rama 431:2, Mishna Brurah 431:12 </ref> | # If one began to learn, work, or eat during the day and continued into the night, according to Sephardim one doesn’t have to stop to do Bedika, and according to Ashkenazim one must stop at [[Tzet HaKochavim]] in order to perform Bedika.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch and Rama 431:2, Mishna Brurah 431:12 </ref> | ||
# Even someone who is doing bedika the night before he leaves shouldn't eat or do activities beforehand after nightfall.<ref>Pri Megadim E”A 436:1 writes that one who does Bedika the night before leaving his house, shouldn’t eat, work, or learn just like one who performs Bedika on the 14th. Kaf HaChaim 436:7 and Nitei Gavriel 28:4 agree.</ref> | # Even someone who is doing bedika the night before he leaves shouldn't eat or do activities beforehand after nightfall.<ref>Pri Megadim E”A 436:1 writes that one who does Bedika the night before leaving his house, shouldn’t eat, work, or learn just like one who performs Bedika on the 14th. Kaf HaChaim Orach Chaim 436:7 and Nitei Gavriel 28:4 agree.</ref> | ||
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