Here are a few PDF Passover product guides that you can download and print for your Passover preparation needs.

• Beth Israel Malden Passover Supplement 5772
• KVH Passover Approved Product Guide
• KVH Passover Dairy List

Pesach is right around the corner! Any chametz owned by a Jew during Passover week is forbidden for actual use forever. If there is chametz that you do not want to dispose of (e.g. bottle of shnapps), you must arrange for a formal sale of chametz to a non-Jew that will go into effect before Passover. Rabbi Rabinowitz is available to arrange for this important contract following weekday morning and evening services, or by appointment. You can call him at (781) 322-5686 or (781) 322-5191, or use the form below.

The deadline for selling your chametz through the Rabbi is 8:00 a.m. on Friday, April 6. If you miss this deadline please call the rabbi at (781) 322-5191 and leave a message.

All chametz that you are selling sold should be stored away in one or more designated areas and sealed off.

Please specify if your contribution for the sale of chametz is designated to the shul or to the rabbi.

Today I recieved the following question.

“I am selling my Frozen pizza over Pesach with the rest of my Chometz. Is there a way that I can leave it in my freezer and still use that freezer over Pesach?

The Torah prohibits us from possessing Chometz over Pesach. If a Gentile asks you if he can store his Chometz on your property over Pesach, are you permitted to let him?

If the Chometz does not belong to you, there is no Torah prohibition. However, the Sages ruled that to be allowed to do so one must create a separation for the Chometz lest you come to eat it. This is why the Chometz that we sell to a Gentile is stored away and people also put on the cabinet that it is stored away in some kind of a sign that this area is off limits because of the Chometz that is there.

What you can do with the pizza is separate the area where it is in the freezer by putting up a cardboard wall around it or covering it in a way that you realize to stay away from this area of the freezer. You could also put it in a bag and write “CHOMETZ” on it.

You may then continue to use the freezer over Pesach.

Chag kasher v’samayach- A kosher and joyous Pesach! 

Each one of the four cups of wine that we drink at the Seder must hold a halachik liquid measure known as a revi’is. When converting that to ounces we follow the view  that a revi’is is 3 fl. oz.

However for Kiddush that we recite on Friday night the cup should hold 4.4 fl. oz. This is because the recital of Kiddush that we make every Friday night is the fulfillment of a Torah obligation to declare Shabbat as a holy day. In this case we follow the view that the revi’is should be larger.

Therefore this year when the Seder night is Friday night we should make sure that the first cup should hold 4.4 fl.oz. (the other three could be smaller and hold 3 fl. oz.).

Regarding how much wine to drink, the order of preference is:

1) Drink the entire cup even if it is larger than a revi’is .

2) Drink the majority of the cup even if it is larger than a revi’is.

3) Drink a revi’is.

4) Drink the majority of a revi’is.

For this year, calculate the revi’is for the first cup as 4.4 fl. oz.

Chag kasher v’samayach- a kosher and joyous Passover!