A chant inspired by the beloved custom of bedikat hametzLit. Leavening Any food made of grain and water which has fermented and risen and is thus prohibited to be eaten during Passover.', searching for hametz by candlelight on the night before Pesakh (or this year, 2021, because of ShabbatShabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work. Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends., on Thursday night). The Hebrew text, from the opening to MishnahThe first layer of Jewish oral law, written down in Palestine around 200 CE. The Mishna consists of six books or sedarim (orders), each of which contains seven to twelve tractates or masechtot (singular masechet). The books are Zeraim (Seeds), Moed (Festival), Nashim (Women), Nezikin (Damages), Kodashim (Holy Things), and Tehorot (Purities). Pesachim, translates as: “On the evening [lit., light] of the fourteenth of Nisan, one searches for hametz by the light of a candle.”
אוֹר לְאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר בּוֹדְקִין אֶת הֶחָמֵץ
לְאוֹר הַנֵּר
or l’arba’ah asar bodkin et he’hametz
l’or haner
searching, searching with the light
searching in the dark
searching, searching with the light
searching in the heart
l’or haner
