Pesach FAQs 2020

MESSAGES FROM RABBI WEINBERG:

• Please see the schedule of Pre-Pesach Zoom classes here. Click here for a recording of Rabbi Weinberg's "Never Made Pesach Before? Halachic & Practical Tips."
• Click here for Rabbi Weinberg’s Pesach Guide or here for the OU Guide or here for the Vaad’s Pesach Bulletin. There are also hard copies of the OU Guide outside KMS.
• The Keilim Mikvah is currently closed due to concerns related to COVID-19. Please see the Psak of Rav Hershel Schachter on page 16 of Rabbi Weinberg’s Pesach Guide regarding how to handle new utensils
• Thursday, April 2, 8:00 pm: I will give a shortened and modified version of my Shabbat Hagadol Drasha on Zoom.
• There will be a joint KMS/YISE communal dumpster located at YISE, 1132 Arcola Ave, for disposal of chametz you amass after the final home garbage pickup and before Pesach. Please use this dumpster for CHAMETZ ONLY. Details to follow. Monday & Tuesday before Pesach
• We will have a Zoom Siyum on Erev Pesach and anyone who participates by phone or video and then has a seudah afterwards will be exempt from fasting. At 7:45 am and 9:30 am (Youth).
• There will be no Communal Chametz Burning this year. Don’t make a fire in your backyard. Burn the chametz on a grill, or, if you don’t have one, you may flush the 10 small pieces of Chametz from Bedikas Chametz down the toilet to destroy them.

If anyone has a financial need or concern, please contact Rabbi Weinberg. Gift cards are also available for Pesach food purchases.

• Click here to download the 2-page version of Likutei Torah. OR click here for the full version.
• Click here to download the Hamizrachi Pesach Publication.
• Click here for the OU Pesach Guide.
• Click here for the Vaad of Greater Washington Pesach Bulletin.
• Click here for YU Pesach-To-Go.
• Click here for the Pesach Fun Packet, created by youth directors from around the country, and compiled by Rabbi Levitt.