108.1) You are commissioned to see that moisture does not get into wheat used for matzah (unleavened bread).
108.2) If some wheat is split or sprouted, you may separate it and use the fit part.
108.3) Mills should be maintained and inspected regularly.
108.4) Do not use moist flour.
108.5) Do not use flour ground on the same day.
108.6) Make new bags for flour.
108.7) Put leather between a bag of flour and an animal carrying it.
116.1) Purify your oven. Earthen vessels will not be pure by simply rinsing in hot water or by glowing. 116.2) Vessels of wood, metal, stone or bone can be made fit by rinsing them with hot water. 116.3) Purify vessels of all rust. 116.4) Glow utensils which are used over fire. 116.5) Purify a vessel…
109.1) Use only water that has stayed overnight. 109.2) Draw water between sunset and twilight. 109.3) Try to draw fresh water daily. 109.4) Draw the water from a river preferably. 109.5) Water for baking matzah (unleavened bread) should be drawn by a non-Jew. 109.6) Rinse a vessel that has had honey or fruit in it…
104.1) On Hol Hammoed (intermediate days of Pesach (Passover) and Sukkot (one of Judaism’s three central harvest festivals)) you may perform some work. (See source for details, or consult a rabbi.) 104.2) Do not slight the festival. 104.3) You may do work which would result in loss if you did not do it. 104.4) The…
119.1) Eat the matzah (unleavened bread) and say kiddush at night on Pesach. 119.2) Have cups filled by a servant or a household person. 119.3) The person conducting the ceremony should wash his hands without saying the benediction, dry them, and cut the karpas and serve it. 119.4) Cups are refilled and a child asks,…
107.1) During the month of Nisan (first month of the Jewish year), do not say Tahanun (petition for Grace), do not hold funeral services, or say Tzidkateha tzedek (Thy righteousness) at the Minhah (prayers offered in the afternoon) service on the Sabbath. 107.2) You may not fast unless you have an evil dream. 107.3) On…
122.1) It is customary to observe some rules of mourning from the beginning of the seventeenth of Tammuz (fourth month of the Jewish year) until the ninth of Av (fifth month of the Jewish year). 122.2) Do not say the benediction Sheheheyanu (Who hath kept us in life) during these days. 122.3) Do not have…