Important Pre-Pesach Times
Bedikat Chametz (check for Chametz around your house): Thursday, April 10 after 7:59 PM
Burn and sell Chametz: Friday, April 11 before 12:57 PM
Finish eating Chametz: Shabbat morning, April 12, before 10:43 AM
Nullify and flush away any remaining crumbs of Chametz: Shabbat morning, April 12, before 11:50 AM
Pesach Times and Schedule
With special instructions for this year when Pesach starts immediately after Shabbat.
Note: Because Erev (the eve of) Pesach occurs this year on Shabbat, a number of Mitzvahs that are normally done on Erev Pesach are done earlier. These include the fast of the first born, bedikat (checking for) Chametz and burning the Chametz.
Thursday, April 10
Fast of the firstborn
Dawn (first born begin fasting): 4:54 AM
Shacharit: 8:00 AM - at the Chabad Annex, 676 Amsterdam Ave at 93rd St
Followed by a Siyum - celebrating the completion of a tractate of the Talmud.
Bedikat Chametz (check for the Chametz): after 7:59 PM
Kol Chamirah, declaring unknown Chametz to be null and ownerless, is recited for the first time.
See here for details.
Friday, April 11 - Erev Shabbat
Burn Chametz: before 12:57 PM (The second Kol Chamirah, declaring all Chametz to be null and ownerless, is NOT recited until Shabbat morning)
Shabbat Candle Lighting: 7:14 PM
Minchah: 7:20 PM
Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:50 PM
Shabbat, April 12 - Erev Pesach
Early Shacharit: 7:30 AM
Finish eating Chametz: before 10:43 AM
Flush away any remaining crumbs of Chametz: before 11:50 AM
Recite the second Kol Chamirah statement, declaring any remaining Chametz, known or unknown, to be null and ownerless. (printed in the beginning of most Hagadahs): before 11:50 AM
Minchah: 7:00 PM
Ma'ariv: 8:15 PM
Yom Tov Candle Lighting (from a pre-existing flame): after 8:15 PM
Begin preparing for Yom Tov (setting table, warming food from a pre-existing flame etc) after: 8:15 PM
Earliest time to begin the first Seder: 8:15 PM
Midnight: 12:56 AM
Sunday, April 13 - First day of Pesach
Shacharit: 9:45 AM
Rambam Shiur: 6:15 PM
Minchah: 7:15 PM
Ma'ariv: 8:16 PM
Yom Tov Candle Lighting (from a pre-existing flame): after 8:16 PM
Begin preparing for second day of Yom Tov (setting table, warming food from a pre-existing flame etc) after: 8:16 PM
Earliest time to start the second Seder: after 8:16 PM
Monday, April 14 Pesach Second Day
Shacharit: 9:45 AM
Rambam Shiur: 6:15 PM
Minchah: 7:15 PM
Ma'ariv & Havdallah: 8:17 PM
Friday, April 18 Erev Shabbat Shevi'i Shel Pesach
Shabbat & Yom Tov candle lighting: 7:21 PM
Minchah: 7:30 PM
Kabalat Shabbat: 7:55 PM
Dawn: 4:37 AM
Shabbat, April 19 - Shabbat Shevi'i Shel Pesach
Shacharit: 9:45 AM
Rambam: 6:25 PM
Minchah: 7:20 PM
Yom Tov Candle Lighting (from a pre-existing flame): after 8:23 PM
Begin preparing for last day of Yom Tov (setting table, warming food from a pre-existing flame etc) after: 8:23 PM
Ma'ariv: 8:23 PM
Sunday, April 20 Acharon Shel Pesach
Shacharit: 9:45 AM
Yizkor (aprox.) 11:30 AM
Early Minchah: 6:30 PM
Followed by Moshiach Seudah beginning at 6:45 PM
Sponsored by Yigal and Jacqueline Dakar
L'iluy Nishmas Jacqueline's parents, Alan and Nancy Saturn; Aharon Leib ben Shmuel and Fruma Sarah bat Asher Yaakov. May their memory be a blessing.
Ma'ariv & Havdallah: 8:24 PM
Yom Tov ends: 8:24 PM
Please allow the rabbi about an hour to buy back the chametz.
We wish everyone a Kosher and Happy Pesach and may we celebrate this Yom Tov together with Moshiach in the Third Temple !