What Are Your Family’s Hidurim & Chumros on Pesach?
Question of the week: Many families faithfully keep hidurim and chumros (stringencies) with regard to what they eat on the yomtov of Pesach - especially among Lubavitcher families. What are your family's minhagim? Comments
Question of the week: Many families faithfully keep hidurim and chumros (stringencies) with regard to what they eat on the yomtov of Pesach - especially among Lubavitcher families. What are your family's minhagim? Comments
No milchigs
Obviously, there is Halacha.
But one of our top priorities is to make pesach a joyous and memorable Yom tov.
We always play music while working and make sure to have special treats for the kids.
We also try and have an interactive Seder that the kids look forward to!
We don’t eat matza at the regular table, only at the “matza table”.
I always found other peoples minhagim so beautiful!
We sing the entire Maggid together and these tunes have been with us since before the war!
It feels so special and this is something I try to pass onto my kids!
Is there a recording of how this is done?
Hashem should bless yiddishe mames everywhere coach to pull through the next 24 hours!
We can do it!
we put Air Purifiers in every room, so there’s no chometz in the air
That a joke?
Yes
Yes
no
Wow I love this minhag!
we make everyone brush their teeth and blow torch their mouths so there is no chometz to be found there!
We make everything at home, from the coffee to the matzah
We used to boil our sugar, now we realized it’s better not to “boil” another Jew’s blood erev pesach by stressing everyone out and getting them angry than to boil the sugar.
My rabbi told me already 30 years ago that I don’t have to boil the sugar. He said, “It’s something that was done in Europe out of necessity, and you don’t need to do it.” Wow, was I grateful!!
You can do it the day before, it doesn’t take that long
We also used to boil sugar. Now we realized that instead of creating more stress by boiling sugar, we can last 8 days without sugar. You might want to try that instead especially if you are slightly more lenient with kids, so the only people missing out on sugar are the adults.
We don’t use oil, only shmaltz and the food is the best!
The rebbe wrote in a ksav yad koidesh that in chabad we dont use oil only chiken fat
No hate but if you wanna call yourself chabad you cant use oil
I’m sorry, that is entirely incorrect.
source please??????
most if the bigest chasidim used oil
Who are the biggest chassidim?
Wow please give a source i never saw that.
While it may be true that to identify as Chabad you must follow the traditions of Chabad, your comment is divisive in this context and flies in the face of Ahavat Yisroel.
The Rebbe clearly writes that Anash used processed oil.
Pesach food is my favorite and we don’t use oil or anything else processed. The food is so raw and just good. All the work is worth it in the end.
Every year we come up with new recipes and it’s always exciting.
i do it all year long
Raw food rules
Srsly, I don’t get the hate on it
I use schmaltz year round it tastes so good!
Schamltz is the way 2 go! No products!
So you have some CHUMRAS which you keep in your house like only using shmaltz, or boiling suger, or not using ANY Factory processed foods (although you use wine which came from a factory but whatever) Or perhaps you dust off the sealing because you never know where you might find chametz! Perhaps these chumras where past down from your parents, or maybe you just heard from a guy who heard from a guy about some chumras, GOOD FOR YOU, enjoy your chumras but don’t make everyone else in your family crazy about them! It’s not worth your sholom bayis… Read more »
Take a Xanax my good person.
You got it wrong bro free does not mean free from toireh ch”v
The meaning of pesach is the chumrois thats what kept us alive in mitsraim
in the mitzvos of Ahavas Yisroel and Shalom Bayis.
We also make it a point to be extra-machmir in the biblical prohibition against speaking Loshon Hora.
Machmir in hoyzin.
Aderabah Shilshul.
Chag Same’ach to all.
Just use paper towels
Obviously tested for starch
Dust isn’t chometz, and the kids aren’t the karban Pesach
I avoid reading news sites before pesach
We can see
We don’t use any sort of food processor because we try not to eat any processed foods
you deserve a Nobel Prize for this comment
So we don’t use shmaltz but that’s Abt it
.. we use oil and wine 😉
Other than that we make everything ourself
If your family minhag causes you to feel superior than the next guy, or gives you bragging rights, you may as well not do it at all. Remember matzah is bitul and chametz is gaavah.
The closest food to chometz is matza (it is made from flour and water). Therefore we eat the minimum requirements of matza at the seder and at lechem mishneh – but no more!
We don’t use our car on pessach. The gasoline has 15% ethanol which is GRAIN ALCOHOL! One is prohibited from getting benefit/pleaaure from chometz. Therefore we don’t drive our car the entire 8 days of pessach (and from mid-day on erev pessach). I am shocked that others are lenient in this!!!
Research what that means
Get educated
נפל מאכילת כלב does not apply if it csn be reconstitued to edible food by seperation and refinement. People make this common mistake.
Is this a thing??
In the U.S. is mostly made of corn which is Kitnoyos
Can you rely that “most” ethanol alcohol comes from corn?! If yes, can you rely on that for Deodorant that has ethanol alcohol, or are we worried the grain alcohol MIGHT be from wheat? If you prohibit it for Deodorant sprays, then why is car gasoline permitted????
If a dog won’t eat it then it’s not assur!
but don’t drive your ar cuz, “why not”.
Can I borrow your car please?
The most important Chumra you can have…. As the saying goes “A Kosherin Purim Un A Freilichin Pesach” There is so much work. Backbreaking preparations. On going things to do. The Chumra : be polite thoughtful and kind. Remember dust is not Chometz and your wife is not a Shmateh. Help out as much as you can. Take the kids out of the way Make your wife feel like a Queen. Your kids should feel important. Lastly. Don’t forget to your wife a precious gift before Hadlakas Neiros tomorrow. Buy a gift small or big for each child. Don’t overthink… Read more »
I feel like this was written by an אשת חיל
We sing manishtana in many languages: Russians, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish or what other languages guest speak.
We have a minhag that all the girls in the family go to get their fingers and toes cleaned and polished for pasach
It might take time to process-haha process, but it’s very funny
Q) what’s faster new york or by train?
A) pizza because ice cream doesn’t have bones.
We break a glass the 1st day of chol hamoed zecher lechorban.
Our minhag is to enjoy all the new kosher for pesach products that come out each year. Every year we have new items we try and it always enhances our pesach
We don’t use sink water: (a) it’s a processed product with additives; (b) the water pipes connect to places that have chometz; (c) the reserve of city water could have chometz dropped into it and sitting longer than 24 hrs כבוש כמבושל. Therefore, for drinking, cooking and dish washing we only use water saved from before pessach (we fill our bathtubs).
No water! I gotta buy bottled water. Oh no – is that called proccessed foods? What do others do?
This is a common custom by certain polish and hungarian chassidic communities.
my family has a chumra to rip out all the adds from the magazines before pesach so we can read one article without turning a thousand pages
We boil our tap water and then put it in the fridge….
Our Family Minhag (going back many generations) is that we sit for at least 2-3 hours on every day of Chol Hamoed discussing what to do, and then just go bowling.
We use a streits chocolate cover matzah for the afikomen , it may seem silly but when my great great grandfather was a solider In the war it was the only matzah the army was able to provide to his battalion and since then as a remembrance for his courage in the face of adversity we use a chocolate covered matzah
Chicken eat grain which is chometz. Before yom tov we kasher the chickens in boiling water.
Avacado spread on a matza is NOT gebrokts. We eat it all pessach long.
Chabad rabbis told me it’s ok to do so!!! Ask your local chabad rabbi!!!
We make sure to be careful that everything that touches the avocados are completely dry. We also do this with other dips on Pesach.
But unfortunately it seems as though some people have a hard time discussing differences in a mature and curious fashion…
We check our salt to make sure there are no bits and pieces of anything but salt. You’d be surprised what you find No hot water to wash dishes, nor dish soap (lemon and salt do the job (or not)) Anything that falls on the floor can’t be used that year Brush your teeth with lemon juice No veggies that have visible seeds – cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. No pineapple, avocado or mango because they didn’t have that in Russia G fish made at home with only carp No sugar, oil, or milchigs in any form – you’re fleishig from 8… Read more »
We use the leftover, but only the leftover, lettuce from the sedarim. Behashgacha pratis some years we have quite a lot of lettuce that we checked before pesach leftover 😉