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The deadline to purchase shmurah matzah is fast approaching!
1) Rabbi Botnick is collecting ma'os chittim for individuals and for mivtzoim to ensure people can perform the mitzva of matzo properly. This year's need has increased exponentially. Your participation is greatly appreciated! Click here to participate.
2) Rabbi Botnick is available at +1 (613) 688-2025,1 Sunday-Thursday 1:30-4:00 pm and in the mornings on Friday for Pesach shailos until the Erev Shabbos before Pesach.
3) If you are aware of anyone who does not have and who would use shmura matzo for the mitzvah, please contact Rabbi Botnick or have that person do so.
3a) If you need to take any medications on Pesach, please send Rabbi Botnick the brand name from the label of your prescription, what form it is in, and its potency- as soon as possible. We are in contact with a pharmacist who can confirm that it doesn’t contain chometz. (If it does, he will either suggest the equivalent medication made by a different company that does not, or we can discuss other solutions for taking necessary medications.)
4) To sell chometz:
a. Start by downloading the shtar here. If you need help understanding it, please contact Rabbi Botnick. (For an English but less comprehensive form, click here. The Hebrew one is preferable. The less comprehensive one is designed for mivtzoim). When filling out the shtar, please:
i. Remember to isolate one room or area cordoned off by a mechitza among the places you list to sell your chometz.
ii. If you make a mistakeon the shtar, don’t cross it out. Start a new shtar.
iii. Indicate specific areas within each address where chometz will be in the notes column.
iv. If you will not be at the location on Pesach include access information in the notes column or attach a key. (If you will be in a different time zone, discuss it with Rabbi Botnick first.)
v. One line underneath your list of addresses and specific areas within the address, draw a line across the page. Leave enough space under your details to sign (but don't sign yet) after making a kinyan with Rabbi Botnick as per the next step.
b. When completed, arrange to meet with Rabbi Botnick to make a kinyan. He will, then, take the shtar from you.
If you are unable to meet, please call Rabbi Botnick at +16136882025,1 to make other arrangements.
5) Bedikas Chometz is on Tuesday evening (March 31) this year. All chometz that is to be eaten on Monday morning must be isolated, henceforth, as well as the chometz that is to be burned. The first bittul is recited.
6) Ta’anis B’choros-is on April 1, this year. We plan to make a siyum in shul. If anyone who needs to attend the siyum is unable to, please be sure to contact Rabbi Botnick in advance to make alternative arrangements.
7) Chometz may be eaten until 10:55 am on Wednesday (April 1) morning.
8) The area that you have designated to lease to the non-Jew to sell your chometz inside of should be sealed before the time of the burning of the chometz, which is before 11:59 am, Monday morning. The second bittul is recited.
9) Braces or the like must be dealt with on Wednesday morning. If unsure what to do, please contact Rabbi Botnick.
10) Items needed for the sedorim should be prepared on Wednesday, this year.
11) Remember to make an eiruv tavshillin!
12) Candles, on Wednesday evening, for the first day of Yom Tov should be lit (with a shehechiyonu) before 7:12 pm.
13) Chatzos is 1:07 am, the afikomen should be finished before this time at the first seder.
14) On Thursday, the first day of Yom Tov in mussaf, we will switch to saying morid hatol.
15) Candles, on Thursday evening, for the second day of Yom Tov should be lit (with a shehechiyonu) after 8:17 pm.
16) On Thursday evening, we begin to count sefiras ha’omer.
17) Candles, on Friday evening (April 3), for Shabbos should be lit before 7:15 pm.
18) Shabbos, the first day of chol hamoeid, hallel switches to “half hallel“, each morning. We begin to learn meseches Sotah.
19) Motzo'ei Shabbos, we add ato chonontono, and we also begin to say v’sen brocha in shmone esrei.
20) Feel free to bring what you will need for Moshiach's Seuda to shul before Shvi'i Shel Pesach.
21) Candles, on Tuesday evening (April 7), for Shvi’i Shel Pesach should be lit before 7:20 pm. No Shehechiyonu on the second days of Yom Tov of Pesach when lighting candles or at kiddush!
22) On Tuesday night, Shvi’i Shel Pesach, it is our custom to stay up all night learning. We learn this ma’amar, among other things.
23) Candles, on Wednesday evening (April 8), for Acharon Shel Pesach should be lit after 8:25 pm. No Shehechiyonu is said!
24) Moshiach’s Seudah is Thursday evening, the last day of Pesach, following mincha, which will be at 6:30 pm.
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