Question:
Someone who has a large house and many objects and it is difficult for him to check for the chametz on ‘erev pesach’ in all the places that must be checked, what should he do?
Answer:
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The most appropriate is to check everything on erev pesach night with the help of the rest of his household.
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And if he does not have large household members who can help him, it seems that he can trust the opinions that say it is useful to check the house a few nights before the ‘chag’, if he can lock and keep these places excellent guarding and not use them until after the checking of ‘erev pesach’, but still you should leave a little to check on erev pesach night.
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And if he does not have large household members and cannot check at the nights before erev pasach, you can count on the “sale of the chametz”, that means to sell the chametz in the sale of chametz on the 13th day before the obligation of cheking chametz occurred. and even though the some sages wrote that the customary sale is not so good because you are not selling something that is not specific, it seems that for the purpose of checking the chametz, which is a mitzva ‘derabanon’, one can rely on the ‘maykilim’ with the custom, And if he finds chametz on Passover, he will close it in a closet or put up a partition. and still you should leave a little chametz that will not sell and will check that chametz and you will be makayim the mitzva of bedekat chametz.
