PASSOVER 2025
Thursday April 10th HAMETZ – Search for Leaven (after dark)
Saturday Evening April 12th
First Day of Passover Begins
FIRST SEDER AT HOME AFTER DARK Candle Lighting 8:15 p.m.
Sunday April 1 3 th Zoom Service —————————–9:30 a.m.
Sunday Evening April 13th
Second Day of Passover_Begins
SECOND SEDER AT HOME AFTER DARK Candle Lighting 8:16 p.m.
Monday April 14th ———————–Zoom Service —————————9:30 a.m.
HOL HAMOED SERVICES
Thursday Apr. 17th——Zoom Service 7:15 a.m.
Friday Evening April 18th Seventh Day of Passover Begins Candle Lighting-7:21 p.m.
Zoom Service ———-7:30 p.m.
Saturday April 19th Shabbat In Person Service 9:30a.m.
Saturday Evening April 19th
Eighth Day of Passover Begins Candle Lighting 8:23 p.m.
Zoom Service • – — —– — – 7.30 – • p.m.
Sunday April 20thIn Person Services——————–9:30 a.m.
YIZKOR – Please remember your YIZKOR pledge.
Please bring nonperishable Kosher food for the City Harvest Passover Food Drive.
A Happy and Festive Passover to all.
Dear Madison Jewish Center Family,
As Pesach (Passover) approaches many preparations are to be made. One of these preparations is the selling of the Hametz (Leaven). Enclosed you will find information and directions as to how to sell your Hametz.
Wishing you and your family a Chag Kasher V’sameach (a kosher and happy Passover).
Johanan Bickhardt, Rabbi
Shtar Harsha ‘ah
(Document of Permission)
We, the undersigned, fully empower and pennit Rabbi Johanan Bickhardt to act in our place and stead, and in our behalf to write a Shtar Mkhirah and sell our hametz possessed by us (knowingly or unknowingly) as defined by Torah and Rabbinic Law. We understand that any hametz in our house will not be ours for use from Shabbat Morning 10:00 am, April 12, 2025 until Sunday Night, April 20, 2025 at 10:00pm.
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THIS DOCUMENT MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN FRIDAY APRIL 1 1, 2025
Passover: M’khirat Hametz
(Selling Hametz)
One must not have any hametz (leaven) in his or her legal possession during Pesah.
After doing a complete and thorough cleaning of your house/apartment/dorm room, you should throw away any opened packages of hametz, thereby beginning Pesah in a hametz-free environment.
Consider donating all new and closed hametz items to the City Harvest collection boxes in Madison Jewish Center. Because of the complexities of our economy, it may be far too costly to get rid of all of your sealed and unopened hametz. For this reason a ceremony was developed which in effect “sells” your hametz to a non-Jew for the duration of the holiday.
Shtar Harsha ‘ah
This symbolic sale is carried out by a rabbi whom you authorize by filling out a shtar harsha’ah, or document of permission. The rabbi then sells your hametz by writing a shtar m’khirah, or document of sale.
If you’d like to learn more about the origin of these practices, you can find the sources in the Shulhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law, 1554 CE) of Rabbi Yosef Karo, in the volume Orah Hayyim, sections 445, 446 and 448:3. Other books like Isaac Klein’s A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice and Michael Strassfeld’s The Jewish Holidays are good resources as well.
For up-to-date information on prohibited and permitted foods, as well as the laws regarding Pesah beginning Motzaei Shabbat (Saturday night), check out the Rabbinical Assembly’s website, www.rabassembly.org
You should sell your hametz even if you will be away for the duration of the holiday. On Thursday night, April 10th, or the night before you leave (whichever is comes first), don’t forget to do the b’dikat hametz (search for hametz) which you can find at the beginning of most haggadot.
On Friday morning April I l, remove and burn all hametz by the fifth hour after sunrise (see a haggadah for the text).
Your home/room should be completely kosher for Pesah at this time
