Pesach Made Easy: Pre-Pesach Workshop 2026/5786

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good morning, good Shabbos, welcome to our pre-Pesach workshop. Sorry I'm starting a couple of minutes late, I apologize for that. Uncharacteristic of us. We're going to go through as we always do all of your Pesach shailos. We're going to walk through the kitchen, we're going to walk through the cleaning process, we're going to walk through the koshering process. We'll walk through whatever products you want to talk about and walk through. I'm far from an expert, but I will do my best to answer your questions and if not, be able to get back to you and guide you to the best places to go. But I want to begin as we often do, as we always do each as we often do, as we always do each year at this um by talking not yet about the details and the minusha, not about the preparation, not about the work, but zooming out the lens to talk about this period of the year and what we're trying to do. Because unfortunately and sadly, I see too many people who are so fixated on the details and the work, which is enormous, and the preparation, which I don't want to minimize whatsoever, but do so at the expense of their own happiness, their own joy, their own simcha. And there's a huge mitzvah of simcha on Pesach, like every Yom Tov we have, every rego, we have to enter it be

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1. 0:00Good morning, good Shabbos, welcome to our pre-Pesach workshop. Sorry I'm starting a couple of minutes…
2. 6:16the foundation of positivity and of joy and of love and of gratitude and of feeling…
3. 12:28we have to get rid of uh all the leaven. Lecho matzah, we have a positive…
4. 18:30to hot or salted water. Chametz is assur b'mashehu. It's assur b'mashehu on Pesach. Um How…
5. 24:39happier than ever. Put on music, a skip in your step. Do what you need to…
6. 30:45to go. Any appliance, food processor, sandwich maker, mixer, bread machine that will not be used…
7. 36:53Leave out three toys instead of 3,000 and they'll have the best Pesach playing with them.…
8. 42:57refrigerator. That is the refrigerator. Um cabinets, any cabinets you're going to use for Pesach, which…
9. 49:05pour the water on the on the counter. And again, if you want to know whether…
10. 55:09chametz, and we can't uh we can't effectively kosher What about the kitchen the sink? Just…

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