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title: Siman 434 – After the Bedika
description: הChelek 5 1. During the search, any chometz that you want to keep until tomorrow must be contained. Either flip a wide container over the chometz, hang it, or put it in a box in a place inaccessible to mice…
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updated: "2026-07-27"
category: Laws of Pesach – Chometz
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# Siman 434 – After the Bedika

הChelek 5

1. During the search, any chometz that you want to keep until tomorrow must be contained. Either flip a wide container over the chometz, hang it, or put it in a box in a place inaccessible to mice or children. (ShA  — MB , , )

1. Immediately after the search, declare hefker any unknown chometz like the dust of the ground. (ShA )

1. Any known chometz is either eaten or burned before the 6th hour of erev Pesach. After it is burned, declare another bittul also before the 6th hour. (ShA  — Rama )

1. The bittul should be said in an understandable language. If you do not understand the traditional Kol Chamira, but you know that you are doing a bittul, it works bedieved. (Rama  — MB )

1. At the daytime bittul say: '...that I have seen and that I have not seen — that I have destroyed and that I have not destroyed...' (ShA )

## Key

**ShA**
 : Shulchan Aruch

**MB**
 : Mishna Berura

**ShaH**
 : Shaar Hatsiun

**ShaT**
 : Shaaray Teshuva

**BeH**
 : Beur Halacha

**BaH**
 : Baer Haytayv

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