Sefer Shemot · Parashat Bo

Mitzvah 9: The commandment of disposing of chamets

Sefer HaChinukh 9Exodus 12:15

The mitzvah in Sefer HaChinukh

The commandment of disposing of chamets: To remove all leavened bread from our dwellings on the fourteenth day of Nissan, as it is stated (Exodus 12:15), “but on the first day, you shall dispose of leaven from your homes” - and the understanding of “first” is before Pesach.

Torah source

Sefer HaChinukh cites Exodus 12:15.

but on the first day, you shall dispose of leaven from your homes

The reason given by Sefer HaChinukh

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Details noted by Sefer HaChinukh

The laws of this commandment - for example what time of the day is its destruction; what is its disposal (Pesachim 21a); in which place one needs to search for it (Pesachim 5a) and in which place one does not need; from when the commandment is incumbent upon him if he goes on the road (Pesachim 6a); how is its law if the fourteenth of Nissan falls out on Shabbat (Pesachim 49a); the oral negation that he needs to do in addition to the destruction (Pesachim 6b); and the rest of its details - are [all] elucidated in [the] first [section of] Pesach[im]. (See Tur, Orach Chaim 431-440.)

Applicability in Sefer HaChinukh

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Related sources

Source edition: Sefer HaChinukh, translated by R. Francis Nataf, Sefaria 2018. License: CC0. These source excerpts are provided for study and are not a practical halachic ruling.