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How much cleaning to do when one is going away?

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daisy

Wed, Mar 30 2005, 9:35 am

We are going away for Pesach Iy"H. Just wondering how much cleaning, if any I am required to do? I am in my 1st trimester and am having trouble just getting through the day, so this a big issue for me. For those of you in my situation who have to make Pesach, I'm sending you big hugs!

ForeverYoung
Guest

Wed, Mar 30 2005, 9:58 am

ask your Rav Wink

Didi

Wed, Mar 30 2005, 6:47 pm

I asked my rav every year for the past 9 and every year he tells me to clean one room perfectly that I know contained chametz. I always cleaned one of the kids rooms as it was always the easiest and how much chametz was really in it.

I picked the easiest room in the house. But call your RAV

Yael

Wed, Mar 30 2005, 8:22 pm

you need someplace to do bedikas chometz, so at least one room has to be clean.

technic

Fri, Apr 01 2005, 4:11 am

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Chanie

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 10:55 am

my husband spoke to our Rav this week and he said that if we will be away the whole pesach we should just put away our chumetz so that it's not in plainvieww and that we do not have to clean anything since we will be by our pesach place by Thursday night and we should do the beddika there. We jus have to pay the person we are staying by to rent the room and then it is ours to do beddika in.

gryp

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 1:39 pm

Chanie, im so glad to hear that because we do the same thing, and I was wondering why people do a bedikas chametz in their own house when theyre leaving for pesach.
we also "rent" our room and do bedikas chametz there.

proudmom

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 1:47 pm

if you go to your parents - inlaws house do you still have to pay them?

gryp

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 2:02 pm

yeah, I think we give them a dollar or something like that...

proudmom

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 3:09 pm

is it a minhag or a halacha? Because I never heard of it.

gryp

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 3:15 pm

well a Rav told me to do it so im pretty sure its halacha Smile

Sunshine

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 5:17 pm

I did the same thing last year.

Chanie

Wed, Apr 06 2005, 9:35 pm

proudmom wrote:

if you go to your parents - inlaws house do you still have to pay them?

Last year I went to my parents and I was told to do that, and this year I was told the same (not at my parents) last year we gave my father $1.

supermom

Sun, Apr 10 2005, 3:20 pm

boy, he must have been thrilled with your rent! Wink

smile

Thu, Apr 14 2005, 11:16 am

We were once told by a Rav that if you leave before Purim then you don't have to clean the house but if you leave later then you do. Since you never know if you do have to stay at home for Pesach for any last minute reason.

Chanie

Thu, Apr 14 2005, 1:51 pm

SLB wrote:

if you leave before Purim

I have a tiny 2 bedroom apt. I do not think even if I was home I'd start cleaning that early.

proudmom

Thu, Apr 14 2005, 7:36 pm

http://www.shmais.com/img/pdf/.....h.pdf

Check out the minhagim for pesach. I found it on shmais

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