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Your Guide to Passover 5784

Dear KI Family,

We are pleased to share our Passover 5784 guide with you.

All KI services and programs will be at 384 Harvard St. in Brookline. If you plan on joining us virtually, please use this link for services except midday mincha. Please use this link for midday mincha. If you have any questions, please email us!

Preparation for Passover: Getting Rid of Hametz
We prepare for Passover by eliminating hametz from our homes, cars, desks, and anywhere we might spend time over the holiday. We render our surroundings completely hametz-free, sealing off and selling any items that remain in our dwellings, but may not remain in our possession. You may sell your hametz online here, or the button below, until April 22 at 10:50 am.

Bedikat Hametz (Searching for Hametz)
Sunday evening, April 21 after 8:15 pm

After cleaning out and selling our hametz, we do bedikat hametz (the ritual search for small pieces of leavened food) at home at nightfall.  Place 10 morsels of hametz around a room.  Search for and collect them using a candle, a wooden spoon, and a feather.  Before beginning the search, recite the blessing al biyur hametz. After the search is completed – with the sack of hametz carefully set aside for burning in the morning – recite a declaration nullifying any remaining traces of hametz of which we may not be aware.  You can find these blessings and declarations at the beginning of many Haggadot or in a siddur.

Fast of the Firstborn and Siyyum
Monday morning, April 22

  • Shacharit services, 7:00 am.
  • Siyyum, 7:45 am.

Those who are firstborn in their families fast the day before Passover to acknowledge the suffering of the firstborn in Egypt. You may exempt yourself from fasting by participating in a meal following a siyyum (the completion of a significant piece of Jewish learning), which will be led this year by Rabbi Hamilton from 7:45 am to 8:10 am and available online.

Biyur Hametz (Burning Hametz)
Monday, April 22

  • Shacharit services,  7:00 am
  • Biyur hametz, KI courtyard, 8:15 am.
  • The sale of hametz may be completed by 10:50 am.
  • The final time for burning of hametz is 11:26 am, and the final time to eat hametz is 10:31 am.
  • Mincha (online only) service 12:20 pm.
  • Light Festival Candles no later than 7:16 pm. (L’hadlik Ner Shel Yom Tov and Sheheheyanu)
  • Mincha following by Maariv; begins at 7:00 pm

Second Night of Passover
Tuesday, April 23

  • Festival Shacharit services, 9:00 am.
  • Sarah Kraft Prize: For the twenty-third year, we honor a college student on the first day of Passover, in memory of Sarah Kraft. Emmy Radin, this year’s awardee, will deliver the sermon.
  • Tal – Prayer for Dew: During Musaf services, the leader, Ariel Wyner, will don a kittel and chant tal. We begin to include the prayer for dew in our daily tefillot, setting aside our prayers for winter rain.

Passover Day 1
Tuesday, April 23

  • Festival Mincha at 7:00 pm followed by Maariv.
  • Light festival candles at home with two blessings (Ner Shel Yom Tov and Sheheheyanu), no earlier than 8:18 pm. Be sure to begin Sefirat Ha-Omer, counting the Omer, which appears in the Haggadah​​.

Passover Day 2
Wednesday, April 24

  • Festival Shacharit services, 9:00 am.
  • Mincha followed by Maariv begins at 7:15 pm
  • Havdallah (from Festival to Hol HaMoed at 8:19 pm. Count the Omer)

Passover Days 3 and 4
Hol HaMoed Passover (Intermediate Days of the Festival)
Thursday, April 25 and Friday, April 26

Friday Evening, April 26 – Shabbat Hol Hamoed Passover

  • Mincha and KICKS, 6:00 pm
  • Candle Lighting 7:20 pm. Count the Omer
  • All are welcome at our Friday night Got Shabbat Passover meal. Please register in advance!

Saturday, April 27 -Shabbat Hol HaMoed

Sunday, April 28 – Hol HaMoed Passover (Intermediate Day of the Festival)

Monday, April 29

  • Shacharit services begin at 9:00 am
  • Mincha followed by Maariv at 7:15 pm
  • Light Festival candles 8:25 pm. Count the Omer.

Tuesday, April 30

  • Festival Shacharit services, 9:00 am
  • We look forward to honoring Alina Marincean with this year’s Aliya L’Regel Kavod for encouraging daily support for our Minyan.
  • Yizkor: the memorial service takes place at approximately 10:45 am, prior to Musaf.
  • Mincha begins at 7:25 pm.
  • Learning with Rabbi Hamilton is followed by Maariv at 8:15 pm
  • Havdallah at 8:25 pm at the conclusion of the Festival. Count the Omer.
  • Rabbi Hamilton will purchase back the hametz sold on your behalf by 8:45 pm, after which you may resume possession of your hametz.

KI wishes you sweet, safe, and meaningful Passover 5784.

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