General Introduction
Basic Ideas
Historical Background
Laws and Customs
Sources
Activities
Educational Aims
Slaughtering the Pesach sacrifice:
Exodus chapter 12;
Deuteronomy 16:1-6.
Talmud Pesachim pg. 6 'The laws of Pesach are studied and taught thirty days before the Festival.'
Mishnah Berurah (commentary on Shulkhan Arukh):
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431-447 hamets
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451-452 koshering utensils
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453-462 matsah
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468-471 day before Pesach
Kitsur Shulkhan Arukh
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108-110 baking matsahs
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111 searching for and burning hamets
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113-115 the day before Pesach