Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We will be Be’H spending Pesach with our children in Israel. We will be travelling about two weeks before Yom Tov. We are also planning to sell our house on an early sell, the day before Erev Pesach, so we won’t have to clean the house and do Bedikas Chometz before we leave. As we have done in prior years, we are also planing not to sell one room so we can do Bedikas Chometz on that room before we travel, since Seforim mention that a Brocho comes to the house when yo do Bedikas Chometz.
In prior years, we felt some difficulty with the above, since if you sell the house how then do you enter your room? And we had to explicitly mention that restriction on the sale, making it complicated.
Is it then better to just not sell the shed we have, since it has it own access, and then do the Chometz search there? The only issue is that we never bring Chometz into that shed and usually the place does not even require Bedika. Should we store there just for keeping the mitzva some Chometz now before Pesach?
A. In principle sheds even when not used to keep any Chometz, depending on your location. also may be the place where squirrels and other garden rodents abode and store their food that likely could be Chometz. Besides, children may also play with their food there. So it should undergo Bedika anyway. It makes sense to use that separated place from the house for that important mitzva.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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