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==Scattering Ten Pieces of Chametz== | ==Scattering Ten Pieces of Chametz== | ||
#The minhag is to scatter | #The minhag is to scatter ten<ref>Mishna Brurah 432:13 quotes that Arizal held that specifically ten pieces should be scattered before bedika. [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&pgnum=79 Nitai Gavriel (v. 1 8:4)] quotes this as well.</ref> pieces of Chametz to be found during the Bedika.<ref>Rama O.C. 432:2, Mishna Brurah 432:13, [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&pgnum=78 Nitai Gavriel (v. 1 8:1)]. Rama (432:2) quotes one opinion who says that the minhag to leave pieces of bread around the house is to ensure that one finds chametz to prevent a berakhah of biur chametz being said in vain. However, the Rama concludes, that it is not necessary since one’s intent in the berakhah is to destroy the chametz that one finds. Taz (432:4) discourages this minhag because one may misplace one of the placed pieces. On the other hand, Rabbi Yaakov Reischer in Chok Yaakov (432:13) defends the minhag and argues that putting out pieces encourages one to do a thorough check and not abandon the job if chametz is not found immediately. </ref> | ||
#These pieces should be hard Chametz that doesn’t cause crumbs and it should be placed in an area that’s protected from children or mice.<ref>Mishna Brurah 432:12 </ref> Additionally, it may be advisable to wrap it so that it doesn’t make crumbs.<ref>Halachos of | # Nowadays, when people clean the house of Chametz in advance, some poskim maintain that it is an absolute obligation to put out pieces of chametz, while others hold it is still just a minhag.<ref>Shaar HaTziyun 432:12 quotes the Emek Halacha who maintains that nowadays when people clean the house in advance one must put out these 10 pieces of Chametz so that the Bracha on Bedika isn’t a Bracha Levatala. Rav Ovadia Yosef (Chazon Ovadia Pesach p. 36, Yabia Omer 9:88:12, 9:92:2, Yachava Daat 5:31) and [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&pgnum=78 Nitai Gavriel (v. 1 8:2)] agree with the Emek Halacha. However, Halichot Shlomo 5:12 argues that one can still make the Bracha without putting out these pieces because the Bedika includes checking that the areas have been cleaned properly, nonetheless it’s still the minhag to do so. </ref> | ||
#One should be careful not to | #These pieces should be hard Chametz that doesn’t cause crumbs and it should be placed in an area that’s protected from children or mice.<ref>Mishna Brurah 432:12 </ref> Additionally, it may be advisable to wrap it so that it doesn’t make crumbs.<ref>Halachos of Pesach (pg 80) </ref> | ||
#One should be careful not to lose any of the pieces.<ref>Mishna Brurah 432:13 </ref>Therefore, it is a wise practice to write down where the pieces were hidden so that they're not accidentally forgotten.<ref>[https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&pgnum=80 Nitai Gavriel (v. 1 8:8)]</ref> | |||
#Each of the pieces of chametz should be less than a kezayit so that in case one is lost there will be no question that bitul chametz suffices to nullify it.<ref>Chazon Ovadia p. 36, [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&pgnum=80 Nitai Gavriel (v. 1 8:7)]</ref> | |||
# The minhag is that some family member hides the pieces and someone else finds them. If he is doing bedika by himself he should nonetheless hide the pieces and find them himself.<ref>[https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&pgnum=79 Nitai Gavriel (v. 1 8:5)]. He writes that this was the practice of the Steipler.</ref> | |||
==How much is Enough?== | ==How much is Enough?== | ||
