In preparation for Passover each year we spend countless hours cleaning, switching pots and pans and then cooking for meal after meal. Removing hametz, leavened foods from our diets, our homes and our souls in both a physical and spiritual way helps us prepare for the holiday. The rituals of Bedikat (search for) and Biyur (destroying of) Hametz create a very powerful physical and spiritual separation between Passover and the rest of the year. At the end of our search for hametz, we declare that any hametz we may have overlooked is now inedible like the dust of the earth. We recognize that logically, no matter how deeply we clean, there will always be hametz in our lives.
Any hametz that is not destroyed during the week of Passover should be symbolically sold-mekhirat hametz. The deadline to sell your hametz is Friday, April 11 at 10AM.
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