How Do You Prepare The Home For Passover?
Before you can hold a Passover seder in your home, you must thoroughly clean your home and prepare for the holiday. Most preparations concentrate on completely removing all leavened-bread products from your home as well as anything that may have touched such products. To prepare your home for Passover, there can be no leavened-bread products in your home or even in your ownership. Step 1 Remove all leavened-bread products from your home, including anything made from wheat, rye, barley, oats and spelt that was not completely cooked within 18 minutes of coming in contact with water. Step 2 Remove rice, corn, peanuts and legumes if you follow Ashkenazic traditions. Step 3 Dispose of all utensils used to cook leavened-bread products. Many synagogues arrange for symbolic sales of such utensils during Passover and allow participants to buy back their utensils at the end of the holiday. This sale can extend to the bread products as well. Step 4 Clean your home thoroughly. Scrub all surfaces,