Shalom. Keeping cost for Passover is a challenge. So, I am going to do a series of videos to help people do it and explain it simply.
First of all, the thing that is the forbidden and Passover is hamits. In October says you can not have comets in your house, you can not benefit from it, and you can not eat it. So, we have all this steps to get rid of it. First thing we do, is we stop by hamits and then we go through all our covers and shells or refrigerator and get rid of all our hamits anything that you can donate, please do it. It is a great Mishna. To a food shelf, do not throw it away if you can not donate it or you can segregate it. And you can segregate it in to a place and you should sell it. And we have forms online to help you decide your hamits or go to your rabbi if you have one. It is just a temporary sale for the holy Passover, so you fulfill the biblical idea of not having it in your possessions. Okay, then we actually has a cute little kid oriented activity where we do video Bidi Kakamas. Checking for the hamits, we turn off the lights, we light a little candle, take of a feather and a spoon although today, you would probably use a little vacuum cleaner and you will not go around the house and you pre plant in little bags of hamits, so your kids can find it. If you have kids, it really fun activity called Bidi Kakamas. And, Miki Kakamas is just the selling of the hamits.
And then, the day before Passover in the morning, you burn the hamits. Now, this is not on Saturday because it should you not burn, it is called bureau camades. And now, what is hamits? Hamits is any of the grains which are allowed to level and grow. So, that is defined as many times that these grains, the five grains which include wheat, oats, dry barley or spell come in contact with water after being cut off in the ground. It will become fermented or hamits.
And so, Mishna is basically from wheat but the time it hits the water until it comes out the evident in less than 18 minutes, which is defined by the ageist as not having fermented or yeast or hamits. And the teller says, they did this to remember the haze to put our ancestor left Egypt.
Now, in addition, so that basically if you have much of them, you can make anything out of it. That is how you can have cakes and cereal and different things or of course if you use a food as permeated by it self like potatoes. You have all this products now that look like their normal products, you can make much of cakes and much of deserts and things like that.
Okay, now in addition to that Ashkenazim juice who are come from Eastern Europe. They have additional probations called kitniot. Now, what are kitniot? Beans, and here Russian juice eat green beans generally, German juice do not, rice, corn or peas. Now why not? Well, it is not that these things can only come from hamits, they, the rabbi, the Ashkenazim is bread they use because flour is made from them. And Ashkenazim rabbi said you can not use them at all as part of juice do not absorbed these restrictions. So, for example you go to Israel and you see bakeries, there is load of bakeries that it says caution repasa for sardine.
Now, peanuts I believe orthodox do not use peanuts. None orthodox juice, conservative rabbi do permits peanuts but again if you are gong to buy peanut butter as for example has to be completely 100% peanut butter that kind of it goes in the refrigerator, no mixtures because even if you buy something before peasa and in contest with small amount, less than 160th of hamits in the products that makes it hamits , so you have to be very careful. Alright, I have already explained why we prepare our houses for hamits thoroughly.
Now, what foods may not be use by Passover to all, any of the following that is not cause by Passover, 11 bread, cake, biscuits, crackers, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rice beans, dry beans and liquids which contain granular alcohol. Now, there are certain foods which require direct supervision for Passover. Now, there are some differences between conservative rabbi and the orthodox. Conservative rabbis knowing how expensive Passover food is compared to regular food or regular cautious food, try to limit those things, to things that absolutely have to have precautious certification. But, you can go to cautious grocery store and find all kinds of food which we think do not need direct supervision like the orthodox do and pay a lot more form. So, if the orthodox, you probably want to talk your orthodox rabbi about what they think, this cautious Passover.
So, here are the foods that we say need direct supervision for Passover matza, noodles, candies, cakes, beverages, canned and process foods, jam, hard cheese, jelly relish, wines, liquors, salads oil, vegetable gelatin, shortening and vinegar. Culture peasa label has to have a rabbi signature. This applies to all products made in America, Europe or Israel.
Now, what things require no certification, pure natural coffee, sugar, but not confectionery or powdered that needs certification, brown sugar, sucurine tea, salt and pepper, vegetables, dry beans and peas are forbidden, sucurine, I am sorry, string beans are permitted, pure garlic and onion powder, dry fruit, honey, Hershey’s cocoa, pure natural coffee and set flour, Soya bean oil, natural peanut butter, dish detergent scouring powder. Now, all of these should be bought before Passover and left unopened until Passover begins, because the traditions of a little more lenient about the things you buy before Passover versus the things you buy after Passover. Okay, so that is enough to digest for a one video, keep it close for Passover number one.
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