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The full guide for Pesach 2025
Please note: 5785 (2025) is one of the relatively rare years when the day before Passover falls on Shabbat. Please pay close attention to the following schedule, because many details are different than other years.
Thursday – April 10 – 12 Nissan
Fast of the Firstborn. Since one is prohibited to fast on Shabbat (this year, the day before Passover), the fast is held on Thursday. All firstborn males are required to fast. To be exempt from fasting, one can participate in a meal marking the fulfillment of a mitzvah; such a meal is generally held in the synagogue after morning prayers on this day.
Sell your chametz. Your local Rabbi can help, or complete an online “Authorization for the Sale of Chametz” form from your favorite and trusted website.
Search for the chametz after dark. (click here for the exact time). Recite the blessing prior to the search, and the nullification of the chametz (Kol Chamira) following the search. Click here for more information on the search and removal of chametz.
Friday – April 11 – 13 Nissan
Burn your remaining (unsold) chametz before the beginning of the sixth seasonal hour (click here for the exact time). Leave behind challah loaves or rolls to be eaten during tonight’s and tomorrow morning’s Shabbat meals. Though it isn’t forbidden to eat chametz until the end of the fourth seasonal hour tomorrow morning, since it is impossible to destroy chametz on Shabbat – the chametz must be destroyed today.
This year, when burning the chametz, we do not recite the passage wherein we declare all chametz in our possession to be null and void. Instead this passage is recited tomorrow morning. (The Yehi Ratzon, however, is recited while burning the chametz.)
The Seder plate items and the Seder dinner food should be prepared today, the food can be warmed up after Shabbat has ended, using a flame that has been lit from the onset of the holiday. We suggest lighting a 24 or 48 hour yahrtzeit candle before Shabbat candle lighting to be used to light candles or a gas flame on the holiday.
Both Shabbat meals should be completely kosher for Passover with the exception of two ounces of bread per person per meal. (It is forbidden to eat matzah on the day before Passover.)
Light Shabbat candles, reciting blessing
The challah is carefully consumed over a paper napkin or tissue. Afterwards, the paper, together with any remaining chametz crumbs, is flushed down the toilet. Extra care should be taken that no chametz crumbs should fall on the floor.
Shabbat – April 12 – 14 Nissan – Day before Passover, Shabbat Hagadol
Services are recited early in the morning in order to allow enough time to start the Shabbat meal and eat the challah before the end of the fourth seasonal hour (click here for the exact time).
Festive lunch meal. Once again, the challah is carefully consumed over a paper napkin or tissue. Afterwards, the paper, together with any remaining chametz crumbs, is flushed down the toilet. Extra care should be taken that no chametz crumbs should fall on the floor. After the fourth seasonal hour, it is forbidden to consume any chametz.
During the fifth seasonal hour of the morning (click here for the exact time) the nullification of the chametz (Kol Chamira) — the one normally recited while burning the chametz — is recited.
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Secret power on Pesach
Preparation for Pesach
The Blessing of Flowering Fruit Trees
A once in a year opportunity – The Blessing of Flowering Fruit Trees in the Spring Season. When the spring (Aviv) season arrives, a blessing is traditionally said when one is in view of at least two flowering fruit trees.
Usually this prayer is best said on Rosh Chodesh, but since this year Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbat the Ben Ish Chai says one should not recite this blessing on Shabbat although according to Halacha (Jewish code of law) you can.
This year Rabbi Anava will be reciting the blessing on the 12th day of Nissan at the resting place of Rambam and the Holy Shela. Click below for more info
in the mean time, please take the time to watch the following video and learn all about this amazing Mitzvah.
Rabbi Anava’s wine for Passover
We are happy to present Rabbi Anava’s own wine from Israel available to the public!
Hurry to get your bottles of wine for Pesach as we have LIMIT amount of bottles!
Watch the short video about the wine and everything about it and why it is SO special for Pessach!
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