attending many times the seder of the Rebbe, so there are certain things that are not even written, but I've seen the Rebbe do, so it's, you know, I might mention that, too. See, it used to be that the Rebbe had a seder with about 10, 12 people by the table, that's all. This was only till 1971. And other people would have the seder themselves, but the bochurim would finish the seder very fast, and then they would run to the Rebbe's place where the Rebbe had the seder, to watch what the Rebbe is doing. So I even had a chance many times to finish my seder so fast that I came before the Rebbe started. Upstairs, 770, upstairs. Where he used to eat, right, right. So this is used to be the Frierdiker Rebbe's apartment, where the Frierdiker Rebbe used to have his Yom Tov סעודות and his seder. After the הסתלקות, the Frierdiker Rebbe passed away, it continued that Yom Tov and Pesach, not Shabbos, but every Yom Tov the סעודה used to be that the Rebbe used to eat there. And this went on till the previous Rebbe's Rebbetzin passed away. When she passed away, that stopped. And she passed away in 1971. So from then on the Rebbe made the seder at home. But till then, we were able to see the Rebbe's seder. So anyway, we will start from the beginning of the Haggadah, and I'm not discussing the the the paragraphs of the Haggadah, that's going to be next week's shiur, just to discuss the order of what we're supposed to do. So since we're going to start at the order of Haggadah, the Haggadah actually starts a little bit from before the seder. The Haggadah starts from the night before the seder, which is the night of

בדיקת חמץ. So we will start with the minhagim of בדיקת חמץ. The inyan of בדיקת חמץ is a מצוה דרבנן, something that the רבנן said in order to make sure that we find any little bit of chametz that we have, and we destroy it. Now I want to explain it a little bit. The way it is originally mid'oraita, that means the way the mitzvah is from the Torah, before the chachamim added more laws, with the authority, obviously, of the Torah. But originally it was that in order to get rid of chametz, there were two choices. You could do one of the two: or to look for the chametz, find it, and whatever you found, destroy before Pesach. There was a next a second choice that you nullify the chametz. That's all you have to do, just to nullify the chametz. You have to be מבטל חמץ. If a person within his mind decide that any chametz that I have is worthless, it's like dust, it's nothing to me, that itself is enough. And if you would do that, you could have all the chametz around your house, and it could be there, as long as you don't eat it, but as far as having it, owning it, there is no problem, because it is really worthless, it's ownerless. Like I mentioned last week, when it comes to Pesach, there are two things: you can't eat chametz, and that's very strict, and you can't own chametz, you got to get rid of your chametz. So the way to get rid of the chametz was, or to destroy all the chametz, and how do you destroy it, you got to find it first, so you got to look for all the chametz, find it, destroy it, or nullify it in your mind and then say it. The chachamim, years later, said that they feel, to be sure, you should do both. It's not enough to do one. So you have to do both, you have to find the chametz, look for it, find it, destroy it, and also nullify the chametz. And the Gemara goes into all the reasons why we have to have both. It is

since the last 200 years that a third thing was instituted, and that is selling the chametz. That we sell the chametz to a goy, so just in case there was chametz that was found, and we didn't think about it or we didn't have it in mind when we nullified the chametz, at least it's not ours, because it's sold, and it's a legal document that we make with the goy. When you go to the rabbi to sell your chametz, and you sign your name, and you tell him where your chametz is, or you tell him your address, it's not the pshat you're selling the chametz to the rabbi. I always make this joke, but it's a true joke: the rabbi is not the goy. The rabbi is just your agent to sell it to the goy. And on Erev Pesach we sell the chametz to the goy. And it's a legal document, and the goy gives a down payment for the chametz that he is going to buy, and we make up that after Pesach he will pay the rest. And what happens is that after Pesach, we come to the goy and we say, \"Well, time to pay up!\" \"Oh, how much is it?\" \"Well, if you want to buy pay for all the chametz of all the residents of Miami, could be 3 and a half million dollars.\" \"Okay,\" so the goy says, \"I'm sorry, I don't have the money.\" So we tell him, \"Well, what do we do? You can't say, 'Well, I back out from the deal.' It's too bad, the deal is a deal. You want to sell it back?\" \"Yeah, okay, you want to sell it back, so we buy it back.\" And that's done right after Pesach, that's why you always have to wait like a half-hour to an hour after Pesach till you start using your things, because Pesach is over, there's no problem with chametz, but there's a problem with stealing. Everything belongs to the goy! And as long as it's not bought back, you're stealing from the goy. But that's a third way. We're not dealing with that now. That is done anytime from now till Pesach, and like Dr. Stein announced before, I'm available if you want to sell through me, Wednesday night tonight or next week Wednesday, Sunday and I think the last Sunday before Pesach I will specially come up to daven here with a minyan, so I'll be available for anybody who wants to come sell the chametz. Anyway, that's one way. But the other two ways is to destroy the chametz and nullifying. That's what we do the night of ערב פסח. So after we come home from Maariv, and it should be done right away, the mitzvah of of of bedikat chametz, searching for the chametz is has a time. The time is right after צאת הכוכבים, as soon as the stars come out. Sometimes when people are for some reason not ready to be bodek chametz, the house isn't clean yet or whatever, there is no choice. You can't search for chametz when the house is not clean yet. But we should try to have everything ready that the time, the set time of צאת הכוכבים when the stars come out, which is now about I would say sheki'ah about 6:40, this should be about 7:25, 7:30, around that time, you should start the bedikah. Now to

order to start the bedikah, what you have to do is we have to first put out in different parts of the house 10 pieces of chametz. And it should be hard pieces. This is our custom, to be hard pieces of chametz, and the pieces should be wrapped in paper, not chas veshalom to put out pieces like this. What's going to happen? It'll crumble and then you'll be stuck. Go check for them and look for them. In pieces of paper, put them all over. And then you take a candle and the best is to have a wax wax candle. If you have If you buy a bedikat chametz set, then automatically, well, the truth it's not automatic. Sometimes they're not wax candles. So you try to buy a set that has a wax candle, and a feather, and a bag. That's the tools that you need: the candle, the feather, and the bag. And? Huh? Spoon. And a spoon. Yeah, where's the spoon? I forget the spoon. The wooden spoon! And a spoon, right. And a spoon. And you make the berachah that we make: אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו על ביעור חמץ. And you start searching for it. This searching of the chametz is not a game. Some people think, well, it's a nice, you know, tradition. It's not a game. You actually have to search. Even though you cleaned the house and you know there is no chametz there, but the din is you have to go around in every corner, in every place that's possible, you have to look for the chametz. Any place that's possible that chametz was left there, not was left, sorry, even if it's a place you know for sure chametz wasn't left, any place that chametz could have been brought in throughout the year, you have to search. Especially when you small children, you have never know where the chametz was. Like this you can say, well, the bathroom definitely has no chametz. You never know what you find with kids. Anyway, you

have to search the bathroom and you have to search everything. You have to search even your car. There's a din of bedikat chametz if you want to use your car, so the car has to be cleaned, and the night of ערב פסח with this candle you have to go into the car and search the car, because it's a place, it's מקום שמכניסים בו חמץ, and you have to search. And you have to go from room to room, you have to start the closest place to where you are standing when you make the berachah, because the berachah should go directly into the mitzvah. It's a mitzvah you do right away. Can you do it at intervals, because some people have big, humongous houses and it might take them 6 hours to do like such a thorough inspection, they're going everywhere? So it takes 6 hours if that's what it's going to take. I don't know why it should take so long, I mean. See, we have big houses, Baruch Hashem, but it's not so hard to check. When you have one small house and it's full, cluttered up with things, then it's very hard. Then it could take you many hours. But when you have a rechavot'dike house and you've got you walk around, I mean that's it. You have to look all over, but what's For instance, here what's there so hard to look? I mean you look behind, you look It's not, but I don't think it should take 6 hours. Alter Rebbe, the first year he came from Mezeritch, he lived in one room and it took him a whole night to search for chametz. Whole night. Says in the Beit Mashiach that just came out, did you read what Halberstam wrote? Wrote how the Alter Rebbe was בודק חמץ. Because he was there, and it was a long took a long time. It took him hours, hours. He looked at everything, and he started in the kitchen, and he ended in the kitchen, and he said, every candle that candle Well, the Alter Rebbe also had a very big house. Three floors. Right. He went through many candles, he said. Really? I didn't see that. That was very interesting. Because you really have to search for it, it's not a By By the tzadikim,

there's something else involved, too, because there is a spiritual bedikat chametz that you have to look into yourself. So therefore, when they're בודק חמץ the house, they're בודק חמץ themselves, their own chametz, which is the יצר הרע. Now to tell you the truth, with them it's very hard to hard to find that chametz. We don't have to work hard! If we give one look at ourselves, then we find chametz, we find our יצר הרע! But the the Rebbe, to find chametz in himself, he had to search very, very hard. Anyway, you have to go through the whole house and you have to make sure that these 10 pieces that you put out should be found, because if you don't find one of the pieces, we're up the creek. If you finished bedikat chametz and you didn't find you look you have 9 pieces of 10, you have to go through the whole house again. Every little crack you have to go through to make sure you find that piece. Yes? If you're moving into a hotel, you have to check the hotel room, too? Yeah. Yes, yes. If you move into a hotel room and you're going to stay there for Pesach, you have to, the night before Pesach, search for chametz. If you didn't move in the night before Pesach, and you move in Erev Pesach, you have to search Erev Pesach. So take a candle, during the day on Erev Pesach, and search the house, and make a bracha. Yes, you cannot live in a house or in a room that was not searched for chametz. Do you have to check the old house? Well, the old house you have to check if you didn't sell it. If you plan to sell your whole house to the goy, you should at least leave one room to clean out and to check, and the rest you will sell on the שטר מכירה, and then that's it, and you lock it up, and you can't be there. But if you plan to be in the house, you have to have that house checked. Anyway, let's continue with the seder here. So you find all the 10 pieces, you put them into the bag, and then you put the spoon into the bag and the leftover candle, and you take the bag with everything in it, with the spoon and the handle is sticking out, and you put that into another bag. In other words, you have a bag that everything is put in, and the handle sticks out, and then you tie the top with a rope. It sounds very, you know, what's the big deal how you do it, but everything has a reason, whether it's על פי הלכה or a reason על פי קבלה. This is the מנהג חב\"ד. And you will take it and put it up someplace high that no one could reach. The way it's written originally, that the children shouldn't reach and להבדיל להבדיל, the mice shouldn't get to. Baruch Hashem, we don't have that problem. But you have to make sure that it's put away, that you should But

before you do that, right after you finish the bedikah, there is a piece here called כל חמירא that you have to say. Now, כל חמירא, this is when we do the second part. The searching was in order to find it and to destroy it. This is the ביטול חמץ, that you have to nullify it. And therefore, if a person will say this כל חמירא not knowing what he's saying, it's worthless. It's not like when you daven in shul, only if you don't understand, at least you davend in Hebrew. This is meaningless, cuz this is all all it is is an expression of your feeling, that I feel that any chametz is worthless. So if you don't understand what you're saying, there's no expression of your feelings, so then you have to say it in English. And then there's another יהי רצון that you that you have. Then, that you put away. The next day, you could in the morning you eat chametz, you're allowed to eat chametz, and it's even kedai, it says it's good to eat chametz. Now, somebody will say, \"I don't want to eat chametz.\" You don't have to, that is not a halacha, but it says, in sefarim it says that you should eat chametz in order to feel the change, to appreciate the mitzvah of not eating chametz, so eat chametz in the morning. And just by the way to mention that anybody who is a bechor, firstborn, is not allowed to eat, you have to fast on Erev Pesach. But there is a way out. The way out is that if you hear a siyum, then you're allowed to eat. So any bechor must go to shul or anywhere to hear a siyum, and eat from the food that is brought for the siyum. Till you get to shul and eat this, you can't eat. So this bechor can't have coffee in the morning, on the morning of Erev Pesach, because, or eat pesachdike coffee, whatever, because you're not allowed to eat, you're a bechor, so you can't eat till you have a siyum. Then the zmanim of eating this year, I believe, is, I think till

According to the Alter Rebbe, which is our minhag, so you can eat you can eat chametz till 10:18. You could still eat chametz. After 10:18, can't eat anymore chametz. For one more hour, you could sell chametz, you could have use of chametz, but then an hour later, which doesn't mean an actual hour, but it's an hour plus two minutes, it's 10:2- it's 11:20, you're That's when you have to get finished with chametz. So if you have all your cabinets that you want to close up because you sold it in the שטר, so you have to close it up at least by 11: 11:20. You have to make sure that it's closed up. By then you have to have burned the chametz. So what you do is you take the chametz that you had kept from the night before, and you make a fire, and you'll throw it in. And it's kedai not They write, kedai not to, like sometimes to make the fire burn, they they put in oil, no, kerosene. Don't put kerosene on the bag of chametz. Why? Because the moment you put the kerosene on the chametz, it's not fit for a dog to eat anymore. So now you're not you won't fulfill the mitzvah of burning the chametz, because now it's not chametz anymore. You want it to be chametz and you burn it. If you have anything Rubbing alcohol or something? Well, alcohol is still chametz. Right. Doesn't ruin it, I mean alcohol is good. No, you could you could you could put it a few minutes later, after it's burning already, then, but before it starts burning, don't do it. Put the matches inside the bag? Yeah, no problem. Yeah, yeah, you could do that. Burn with the wooden spoon? With the spoon, make sure you burn it with the wooden spoon, right. And there's a special יהי רצון that we say. If you have any special, like if you have food leftover food that you don't want to set aside to sell, open boxes of cereal, it's a good time to to burn it here. There is one thing to keep in mind, which is not noge'a to the burning, but it comes to my mind because I always worry about it at that time:

What do we do with our garbage? When we clean the house before Pesach, we throw our garbage into the garbage can. The the garbage has chametz in it. Then you put it outside into the garbage can. When is the collection of garbage this year? I mean, when is it? Monday. Thursday. Monday, Thursday. Monday. Monday. Monday is the last. Monday is the last, you got a big problem, because any garbage that's put into your garbage from Monday on is going to stay in the garbage, and it will stay there till Thursday, which means until Pesach. They said North Bay Village is not our garbage cans, they belong to North Bay Village. Oh, really? That's only North Bay Well, we checked this out before. Isn't all garbage cans have I mean But it's your garbage can. Your garbage can is not hefker. You don't want anyone to take it. On your property. Now, some say it's no problem. What you could do is you take you have to take the garbage out of your רשות. In other words, you have canisters at some places. You can dump dump it there, or you take it to the part of the street which belongs to the city. What if you put a plastic bag of garbage and put it on that side Put on the side, it's the same thing. all the way when it's not your רשות. No, it on the sidewalk and then get near the gutter. The front I don't know how it's here, but on the other side of the sidewalk next to the gutter belongs to the city. It's not your property. So, if you put it in a bag I don't know if you're allowed to do it. I think legally you're not allowed to put keep it there. But I don't know what you're What if you sell the goy the garbage cans just Well, some people do. They write down in all the chametz, the garbage. Yeah. Okay. But what happens when they collect the garbage? So, they collect the goy's. Let the goy worry about it. Some of the guys garbage who want to put a bag out, the problem with putting a bag out is the cat Cats get into the bag, and you will walk out with chametz all over. All over. Okay. So, try something else. Well, I remember there was certain years that I took my garbage bags and I drove it I drove it to the garbage pile someplace that we had someplace in South Beach, cuz I had a lot of chametz. Yes. Speaking about speaking about selling your chametz, what is our minhag regarding keeping flour or actual chametz? There is no clear מנהג חב״ד. There are many people who leave real chametz. Some people are afraid to leave real chametz, because they feel that the whole שטר מכירה is just a hoax, it's just like a joke, because you're selling In truth, it's not. It's a real sale. It's a document an an indicator document that says that this stands up in court. And if the goy wants, he could come after Pesach and say, \"Yeah, it's mine,\" and we have nothing we could do about it. Always tell the story, once it happened that there is a goy who There was a city where a lot of Yidden had mills, and had breweries, a lot of good businesses. And every year this goy used to buy. So, once his friends advised him, \"This year when they want to buy it back, don't sell it back. You'll have to pay for it. You won't get it for free, but at least we'll have we'll support you with supply you with the money, and we'll have bought out all the Jewish businesses, which were profitable businesses.\" And after Pesach the Beis Din came to him, \"You're ready to buy the chametz?\" \"Yes.\" \"Well, you know you'll have to pay a lot of money for it?\" \"Yes.\" What are they going

What are they going to do? So, he called a meeting of all the people in the city, and he said to them, \"This is what happened, and it's all his, and we have to give it to him. But I have an advice: we should all everything that we own, all our pots and pans and all the broken dishes and towels, all belongs to the goy. Let's all bring it to him. Let's start a line of people bringing all the the broken keilim and their all every\" So, for hours and hours, people they didn't bring the good stuff. The goy got so nervous, he said, \"I'm sorry, I don't want it,\" and he sold it back. But that But, otherwise, he could have it. Cuz I heard two opinions. One opinion was that really it's a good idea to sell chametz, because if you're starting something, you should have chametz that you're So, you could sell a drop. They say the Tzemach Tzedek used to bedavka leave over a little bit of whiskey and sell it. And And whiskey is חמץ גמור. Whiskey is not like חשש or afraid, it's real chametz, it's like bread. משקה is like bread, because משקה is wheat soaked in water. That's ממש חמץ גמור. And he used to sell a drop to show that the שטר מכירה is 100%. It's not a joke. Right. But what about other things like noodles That's not chametz? That's חמץ גמור. careful not to No, I didn't say noodles. Some people are careful not to do it, I'm telling you. Uh-huh. And some people, not. Some people say bedavka they want to sell it, why? Because if they're not going to sell, where are they going to buy chametz after Pesach? They're going to go to the store and buy chametz that the storekeeper sold. Or he didn't. No, if he didn't sell, then you're not allowed to buy. So, you buy if the storekeeper that sold. So, he has sold, so anyway, it's chametz that was sold. And the second thing, we don't know where he's going to sell it. I mean here we probably know, because the in the sale, the שטר מכירה, there is the way Lubavitch makes it, a little bit different than what everybody makes. Now, used to be that all the rabbanim of Miami, Miami and Miami Beach and North Miami Beach, used to get together in one place and sell, and we always sold with a תנאי כפול like Lubavitch does. Last few years, because it's bigger, so North Miami Beach makes it separate, and Miami Beach makes it separate. Now in Miami Beach, we're all involved, so we make sure I'm the one that supplies the שטר מכירה, the real מכירה, and it's our שטר מכירה with the תנאי כפול and everything is done 100% the way we Lubavitch wants. What's done in North Miami Beach here, I really don't know. I don't know whether they do it this way or not. So, if you sell at some place here, you should know that could be I don't know, I'm not saying. Maybe they do it the way we want, because many people even non-Lubavitch do it. But definitely some people don't. So, I don't know exactly what's here, so. Yes?

burned in the lulav? What? burning the lulav? That's another minhag. לולב, שריפת הדס, yeah. No, no, it's not bedavka not, not bedavka yeah, but it's it's definitely, I think the Rebbe once did it also, not every year. So you put it after the thing starts burning, or together with it? No, no, no, you throw it in. You throw the whole thing. Okay, this is all before the seder. Let's get to the seder. On Erev Pesach we're not allowed to eat chametz from the time you're not allowed, obviously. You're not allowed to eat matzah either. So what you could eat is other stuff. You could eat chicken and potatoes and things. Anyway, the main thing is to be hungry when it comes to the seder, that when we eat matzah we should eat it with appetite because it's a mitzvah that we want to do to show that we're really happy with the mitzvah. Anyway, one of the things we do is that after Minchah we say the סדר קרבן פסח, which is written in the in the siddur in the Haggadah. It's the seder itself of the קרבן פסח. And it says that if you say that, it's mamash as if you brought a קרבן פסח. And since we don't have the קרבן פסח now, we don't have בית המקדש, just like a קרבן פסח. Some people have a minhag that they prepare the קערה, the seder plate before they come home from before they leave the shul. That is not our minhag. Our minhag is that when we come home from shul we try to start the seder as soon as possible because the children are tired and they're going to fall asleep. So the main thing of the seder is for the children. What we do is we come home, we set up the seder plate. Now the seder

plate is like this: there are different minhagim. Our minhag is like this: we have a plate, a regular plate, a big plate on the table. On top of that plate we put three matzot. Now some people ask, what about if you could use the מצות טאס? Not the מצות טאס, the you know the metal things that have three layers. I'm not saying you can't use it, yeah you can use it, but they didn't use it in Russia like years ago so we don't use it now, I don't know, but whatever, the Rebbe definitely didn't use it. The Rebbe used to use a silver, what's it called not טאס, a silver tray, a silver tray, he puts the matzah on it. The people sitting at the Rebbe's table would not have anything under the matzot, the matzot would be on the table. But not at the Rebbe's table, the Rebbe writes we should all have that. Why? Because if you make a cheshbon you'll see that altogether there are nine items that we have on a Seder plate. The plate on the bottom is the tenth, and it goes according to the ספירות. The six on the top are the six ספירות, then you have the three מצות, כהן לוי ישראל, and then you have the bottom is ספירת המלכות. And the מלכות it says is like a קערה, like a plate, whatever, so you have to have a plate. So we put a plate down. On top of the plate we put three matzot. We try to find matzot that have a like a קוויבל that are a little bit rounded. And it's a little bit hard to put the stuff on when you have the matzot rounded. It's found only on the other side, not at the top, you know what I mean? Yeah, whichever way you're going to do it it's going to fall off, it's just hard to, look whatever. Yeah. Our minhag is that we put something in between the three each matzah. Either a napkin or something we put in between the matzah. On top of the matzah we put a cloth and on top of that we put the different items. Not like some people that have the three matzot separately and on the side they have the קערה. We have the plate, the Seder plate, on top of the matzot. We don't have another plate on top of the matzot. It'll break. Well, you wouldn't want to, yeah, it'll break it obviously, but it's not only because of that reason. I know some people have a minhag that they have the plate on top. They don't have a plate on the bottom, they have a plate on top. And we don't. You have that cloth on top and on top of the cloth, that's where you put the six items. Now some people always ask, can we put the different items into cups? Now I didn't see anywhere that it says you shouldn't, but I'm just imagining that since על פי קבלה everything is exact and each item represents a different ספירה, by putting כלים we're adding כלים that we shouldn't. If you put a napkin or you put that's that's like טפל, בטל, that's not, that's. But something that's substantial, so I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, I'm just saying my own idea. Do you have to put charoset in something? Well, so you would put, I'll tell you so you, yeah okay so we'll get to the charoset, I'll explain what to do. So what you do is like this: first of all, I would say with the Rebbe when he used to prepare the קערה he used to do it standing. Now I can't say it was בכוונה, maybe it was more convenient, I don't know, but he did it while he was standing. And what he did, what he used to do, he used to look into the Haggadah like I'm looking now. And he didn't, I'm sure he remembered what to do, but he used to look in and what it said here, that's what he used to do. So it says here the

first thing you do on top of the matzah is on the right side you put the zeroa. Now the zeroa, some people have a minhag to have a chicken wing. Our minhag is not to have a chicken wing, it is to have the what is it called, the the גארגל. And the minhag is some people have a minhag that they take the zeroa and they roast it. Our minhag is not to roast it. Our minhag is also to take the meat off the the גארגל, which doesn't mean completely, but to take off meat off the גארגל. All this is to keep it away from sounding like the קרבן פסח. The whole purpose of this is to be a zecher to the קרבן פסח. But we don't want it to look like the קרבן פסח, because קרבן פסח is a קרבן, it's קדשים. You're not allowed to have it outside of Yerushalayim, without a בית המקדש. So we don't want it to look like that, so that's why we do that. So on top you have the zeroa. There's no shiur of how big, you got a little piece from the zeroa, a little piece of the גארגל, and you put on the right side. Then on the left side, you have a hard-boiled egg. Some people have a minhag that they roast the egg also over the fire. We don't do that. It's a hard-boiled It should be hard. You put it on top. And it's going to roll off, obviously. So, you can you know, crack it a little bit, so you try to put it, you try your best, you put it there. Then in middle, it's like a סגול, two, and then in the middle, under it in the middle, we have the maror. Now, maror,

there are five kinds of things you're allowed to use for maror. The most two accepted ones is the romaine lettuce and the חריין, the horseradish. Horseradish doesn't mean you go to the store and buy the the bottled horseradishes, the red ones you know with the beets in it or anywhere, because they put in other ingredients. You have to get regular horseradish, and you have to, you know, grind it, and you have that's horseradish. על פי דין, you don't have to have horseradish, you could eat this romaine lettuce and use that. Our minhag is that we use both. It's for it's for the maror, and therefore, we put them both on the plate. Some people have a minhag that they for the plate, the ke'arah, they only put a little bit. They put a little piece of lettuce, a little bit just as a zecher, and a little bit of חריין or whatever. Our minhag is not like that. We put on top of the plate whatever we plan to eat by the maror. So since we have to eat a kezayit, and the way the Rebbe used to do, we would see that he would eat a kezayit of each, of both, because the din is you could combine both. You could have half a kezayit of the horseradish, half a kezayit of the romaine lettuce. But the Rebbe, you'd see the kezayit of both, each one, which a kezayit is pretty much. A kezayit is an ounce. An ounce of solid is a kezayis. But he would put on the Seder plate the lettuce and take the horseradish from a plate, would squeeze it to make sure, make into a ball, and put the ball on top of the lettuce, and that's in the middle. So that's the second That's the first סגול. And then you have under under it the זרוע on the right side you have the חרוסת. Now what's the חרוסת made of? חרוסת is made of apples and and nuts, and and pears, says here, I don't know if you get pears. Other things we don't put in. It says really that you should put in cinnamon and thing like that. Wine. Ginger. Ginger. Ginger we don't put in. So just apples, nuts and and pears? And pears. Now, the wine The wine is not so pashut. It's that it should have wine. What the Rebbe used to do, well you can't know how it was done before, that the wine he would he would mix it with wine right before it was used later on. It was now it was without wine. It's still wet because apples are wet. So what you would do is when you put it down, you try, you put a napkin, a folded napkin, another napkin under it. You could even I would assume even a piece of silver foil if you really want, because silver foil I'm just saying my own idea. It doesn't sound like it's a keli or anything, just to hold the the from not getting wet, because we're careful that it shouldn't get wet, the matzos. The truth is the lettuce is also a problem, because the lettuce is washed during the day to make sure that there are no insects, so it's wet, so, but you put it down and you dry it. You have to dry, pat the lettuce, you have to dry, make sure it's dry before before during the day or at least before the Seder. Anyway, but the חרוסת you put down, there is no shiur how much חרוסת you have to put down. On the other side, which is under the egg, you put down the karpas. Now, karpas could be or an onion or a potato. The Rebbe used to use an onion. Now, some people do potatoes. When it comes to eat it, we'll see, you shouldn't eat too much of it, so anyway makes no difference. Anyway, that is Then under that, you have another Cooked onion or raw? Raw, raw, raw. Raw onion, raw onion. Cooked. Raw onion. Raw onion. Yeah. Yuck. And then under it, you have another time like a סגול, you have again we call This is the חזרת. This is what you're going to use by the sandwich, by כורך. But it's the same thing, we put here lettuce and horseradish and both a kezayis, and you put it on top. And then, you can imagine what the plate looks like. The חזרת and your maror are identical. Yeah, identical. Some people put one lettuce for one and maror to make it look different, but yes, it's exact Don't we have one is grated horseradish, and the חזרת is just the top of the of the root? And you will eat it? No. Oh, no. But that's the thing. We eat from the plate. But when we come to eat later, we use the the plate. That's why some people this is just for show. When it comes to eat, they take from the other thing, but for a siman. And by us, this is what we're going to use, so if you plan to eat the other horseradish The Rebbe, when he used to eat maror, took a little bit of the unground horseradish. Make a berachah this evening. Later you will see. First of all, can your wife prepare it or should it be the man does it? The man. No offense to the women, but the man should do it. And also, should he put enough on the plate for his wife and family or just No, you can't do that. You can't do You going to put whole No, just for yourself. And then they can put And then he will get from, yeah, you So then, I can prepare a plate for everybody else? What? So that I can prepare a plate for the The קערה? No, just Oh, sure is, that doesn't have to stand there. You could bring it in when you need it. It's in the kitchen. Yeah, that you don't have to. Now who makes the קערה? So the minhag is in most Lubavitcher homes is that a child from over bar mitzvah on has his own קערה. Under bar mitzvah, not, and over bar mitzvah has his own קערה. Okay, so then after the קערה is prepared, so now we continue. And you have a chair and you have next to you a second chair, or not a second chair, you have to have a hasibah, because you have to the men have to lean when they're going to eat, and the matzah, maror and to drink the wine. What could these be, these cupcake, you know, you have these cupcake holders, you know what I mean? For the It could be. Wouldn't suit, yeah? You know what I mean? What about that? Actually, I don't know. Looks like a base keli, you know. Yeah, but yeah could be it looks more like if it's a keli or something, which I I wouldn't feel comfortable adding a keli. Something that's just to hold the food, but maybe it's not, if it's a piece of paper, I don't know. Anyway, after this you pour the cup of wine. Now, the

cup of wine has to be the size of a a revi'it. A revi'it is 3 and 1/2 oz, 3.6, I mean, that shiur. It's not so big. And when we drink, the best way to do it is to drink the full cup.