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# If one is praying with a minyan one should pray first and then perform Bedika. However, if one is praying at home, preferably one should appoint someone else to do Bedika while one prays, otherwise, pray first, unless one usually prays at home in which case some say one should check first and some say one should pray first. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 431:8 </ref> | # If one is praying with a minyan one should pray first and then perform Bedika. However, if one is praying at home, preferably one should appoint someone else to do Bedika while one prays, otherwise, pray first, unless one usually prays at home in which case some say one should check first and some say one should pray first. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 431:8 </ref> | ||
# If one is going to come home after [[Tzet HaKochavim]] one should appoint someone a שליח so that it can be done at the proper time. However, if the man is working at night and wants to fulfill the mitzvah himself, he may appoint his wife to do Bedika (with a Bracha) on the whole house except for one room and then do Bedika (with a Bracha) in that room when he returns. <Ref>Sh”t Teshuvot VeHanhagot 2:114. Listen to “Bedikas Chametz part 1” (min 3:30) by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz who asks on this. [Personally, (Ike Sultan) don’t think there’s any question on the Teshuvot VeHanhagot, just see Mishna Brurah 431:8.] </ref> | # If one is going to come home after [[Tzet HaKochavim]] one should appoint someone a שליח so that it can be done at the proper time. However, if the man is working at night and wants to fulfill the mitzvah himself, he may appoint his wife to do Bedika (with a Bracha) on the whole house except for one room and then do Bedika (with a Bracha) in that room when he returns. <Ref>Sh”t Teshuvot VeHanhagot 2:114. Listen to “Bedikas Chametz part 1” (min 3:30) by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz who asks on this. [Personally, (Ike Sultan) don’t think there’s any question on the Teshuvot VeHanhagot, just see Mishna Brurah 431:8.] </ref> | ||
# Before one begins the Bedika one should say the following bracha: Baruch Atta Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam Asher Kideshanu BeMitzvotav VeTzivanu Al Biur Chametz ברוך אתה ה' אלוקינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו על בעור חמץ. <ref>Tur and S"A 432:1, Kitzur S"A 111:7. See Rosh (Pesachim 1:10) as to why the bracha is with "Al Biur" and not "Leva'er".</ref>The reason that the text is Biur Chametz and not Bedikat Chametz is because Biur is the beginning of the Biur and if one does Bedika without doing Biur on whatever he finds one hasn't accomplished anything. <ref>Bet Yosef 432:1</ref> | |||
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# | # Some say that one must remove all Chametz even crumbs. <Ref> Chazon Ish 116:18. See, however, Rosh Pesachim 1:9. </ref> | ||
# Chametz that’s buried in the cracks in the floor or between the back of a cabinet and the wall and people can’t reach one doesn’t have to do Bedika there. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 433:4 </ref> | # Chametz that’s buried in the cracks in the floor or between the back of a cabinet and the wall and people can’t reach one doesn’t have to do Bedika there. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 433:4 </ref> | ||
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