{"id":5511,"date":"2011-03-04T04:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T02:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2021-03-21T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T07:11:11","slug":"04-04-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/04-04-04\/","title":{"rendered":"04.\u00a0Places That Must Be Searched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any property owned by a Jew that might contain a <strong>kezayit<\/strong> of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> must be searched. Therefore, the kitchen and the dining room where people eat must be searched, and any room, storage space, or porch where people sometimes bring <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> must also be searched (SA 433:3-4).<\/p>\n<p>Clothing closets that are not generally used during the course of a meal need not be searched. However, if there are children in the house, closets must be searched, because the children may have played in them while holding <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> or may have even hidden <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> in them. Closets that are too high for children to reach need not be searched.<\/p>\n<p>One must search cars and carrying cases into which he sometimes places food. Adults who generally do not put food in their pockets need not search them. However, the pockets of children must be searched. Garments that were washed and had their pockets emptied out beforehand need not be searched on the night of the 14th (see below, section 8). One who does not have a home does not recite the <strong>berakha<\/strong> when searching his car or pockets, for the Sages instituted saying a <strong>berakha<\/strong> only when searching a house (<strong>Kaf Ha-\u1e25ayim<\/strong> 433:91).<\/p>\n<p>The stairwell of an apartment building or condominium is shared by all of the building\u2019s occupants, and therefore they have a collective obligation to search it. In such a case, one of the occupants should be given the responsibility of performing <strong>bedikat \u1e25ametz<\/strong>. Open yards need not be searched because we can reasonably assume that animals ate any <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> that might have been there. However, if there are alcoves in the yard that might contain <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong>, they must be searched, because animals may not have crawled into them to eat the <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong>. Likewise, if one knows for certain that there was <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> in his yard on the night of the 14th, he must search it, because he cannot be certain that animals will eat it by midday of the 14th (MB 433:27, citing <strong>Mekor \u1e24ayim<\/strong>). An enclosed porch, even if it opens into a yard, must be searched.<\/p>\n<p>Ownerless public domains need not be searched, for even if they contain <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong>, no violation has been committed. This is because such <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is not in the possession of any particular Jew, and the <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> prohibition only applies where <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is in the possession of a Jew, and not in an ownerless domain (SA 445:3; MB <strong>ad loc. <\/strong>18; garbage bins are discussed below, 5:5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any property owned by a Jew that might contain a kezayit of \u1e25ametz must be searched. Therefore, the kitchen and the dining room where people eat must be searched, and any room, storage space, or porch where people sometimes bring \u1e25ametz must also be searched (SA 433:3-4). 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