This Rabbinical Assembly Pesah guide is a brief outline of the policies and procedures relevant to the preparation of a kosher for Pesah home.

This guide is intended to help families maintain a kosher for Pesah home in accordance with the principles of Conservative Judaism and its understanding of Jewish Law.

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By Alan Lucas
Adapted from The Observant Life

This one-page sheet includes text, instructions, and transliteration for the ritual of searching for hameitz (בדיקת חמץ) and the destruction of hameitz (בעור חמץ).

Download the Search for Hameitz Sheet

The text recited at a siyum, including Kaddish D'ithad'ta.

It is traditional to hold a siyum on the day before Passover so as to circumvent the fast of the firstborn. Since the fast of the firstborn is not biblically mandated, participation in a joyous feast, like one marking the completion of a tractate of Talmud, overrides the fast.

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