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# If the owner/landlord has the keys at the time of the Bedika, then the owner is obligated in Bedika. <Ref> | # If the owner/landlord has the keys at the time of the Bedika, then the owner is obligated in Bedika.<Ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 437:1, Mishna Brurah 437:2, Halachos of [[Pesach]] (pg 98) </ref> | ||
# If the renter has the key to the house at the time of Bedika (14th at [[Tzet HaKochavim]]) and he has made a halachic [[acquisition]] (paying with cash), then he’s obligated to do Bedika. <Ref> | # If the renter has the key to the house at the time of Bedika (14th at [[Tzet HaKochavim]]) and he has made a halachic [[acquisition]] (paying with cash), then he’s obligated to do Bedika. <Ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 437:1, Mishna Brurah 437:2, Halachos of [[Pesach]] (pg 98) </ref> | ||
# However, if the renter has the key to the house but didn’t do a halachic [[acquisition]], many say that the owner is obligated and some say that the renter is obligated. <Ref> | # However, if the renter has the key to the house but didn’t do a halachic [[acquisition]], many say that the owner is obligated and some say that the renter is obligated.<Ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 437:1, Mishna Brurah 437:2, Halachos of [[Pesach]] (pg 98) </ref> Certainly the owner or renter can be appointed a שליח by the other and fulfill the obligation of Bedika. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 437:2, Halachos of [[Pesach]] (pg 99) </ref> | ||
# A person who rents a house for [[Pesach]], the areas which one will put one’s food utensils and actual food should be checked perfectly well. The rest of the house should be checked well, however, the areas which are private areas and the renters are not supposed to open (explicitly mentioned or implicitly understood) the renters do not have to Bedika on those areas. <Ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [https://oukosher.org/passover/webcast/pre-pesach/ou-kosher-pre-pesach-webcast-5771-2011/ OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 16:45 and 19:15 explaining that we assume that the children didn’t put Chametz there and they are even renting those private areas </ref> | # A person who rents a house for [[Pesach]], the areas which one will put one’s food utensils and actual food should be checked perfectly well. The rest of the house should be checked well, however, the areas which are private areas and the renters are not supposed to open (explicitly mentioned or implicitly understood) the renters do not have to Bedika on those areas.<Ref> Rav Yisrael Belsky on [https://oukosher.org/passover/webcast/pre-pesach/ou-kosher-pre-pesach-webcast-5771-2011/ OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5771] between minutes 16:45 and 19:15 explaining that we assume that the children didn’t put Chametz there and they are even renting those private areas </ref> | ||
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