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# Everyone should make his or her own Bitul Chametz. <Ref> Rav Schachter on [http://www.ou.org/community_services/media/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5770 OU Kosher Pre-Pesach Webcast 5770] between minutes 4:30 and 5:00 explaining that nowadays it’s common that children, wives, and husbands all have their own money and their own Chametz. </ref> | # Everyone should make his or her own Bitul Chametz. <Ref> Rav Schachter on [http://www.ou.org/community_services/media/oukosher_pre-pesach_webcast_5770 OU Kosher Pre-Pesach Webcast 5770] between minutes 4:30 and 5:00 explaining that nowadays it’s common that children, wives, and husbands all have their own money and their own Chametz. </ref> | ||
# If one recites the bitul, but doesn't understand what he is saying, that chametz has not been nullified. Rather, he should say it in a language that he understands. <ref> Rama 434:2, Mishna Berura 434:9. Rama in Darchei Moshe 434:2 explains that this is why the kol chamira was written in aramaic and not hebrew, because aramaic was the spoken language of that time. Chazon Ovadyah (vol 1, pg 54) agrees. Magen Avraham 434:5 and Baer Heitev 434:5 write that preferably one should use use Aramaic so that other people and angels will not understand, because the bitul involves somewhat of degradation towards the bread. </ref> | # If one recites the bitul, but doesn't understand what he is saying, that chametz has not been nullified. Rather, he should say it in a language that he understands. <ref> Rama 434:2, Mishna Berura 434:9. Rama in Darchei Moshe 434:2 explains that this is why the kol chamira was written in aramaic and not hebrew, because aramaic was the spoken language of that time. Chazon Ovadyah (vol 1, pg 54) agrees. Magen Avraham 434:5 and Baer Heitev 434:5 write that preferably one should use use Aramaic so that other people and angels will not understand, because the bitul involves somewhat of degradation towards the bread. </ref> | ||
# One should speak out the bitul and not just think it. <ref> shulchan aruch 434:2. The tur 436 says that thinking is enough but the beit Yosef 431 quotes the ran that it is not enough. </ref> | |||
# A good custom is to say the Bitul Chametz three times to strengthen the point.<ref>Chazon Ovadyah (vol 1, pg 54), Nitai Gavriel (vol 1, 34:8) </ref> | # A good custom is to say the Bitul Chametz three times to strengthen the point.<ref>Chazon Ovadyah (vol 1, pg 54), Nitai Gavriel (vol 1, 34:8) </ref> | ||
