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The time for the removal of leaven is juxtaposed to the time when the eating of leavened bread is prohibited. When the prohibition against eating leaven goes into effect, the obligation to remove leaven is in effect as well. And furthermore, the time of the prohibition against the eating of leavened
The Talmud elaborates: The removal of leaven is juxtaposed to the eating of leavened bread, as they appear in the same verse, as it is written: “7 days leaven shall not be found in your houses, as anyone who eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel” (
And the prohibition against the eating of leavened bread is juxtaposed to the eating of matza, as both appear in the same verse, as it is written: “You shall not eat anything that is leavened; in all of your dwellings you shall eat matzot, etc.” (Exodus 12:20), and it is written with regard to mat
The Talmud asks: And say that the verse: “Yet on the 1st day you shall remove leaven from your houses” comes to include the night of the 14th in the obligation to remove leaven, which would mean that one must remove all leaven from his house on the night of the 14th. The Talmud rejects this suggesti
The Talmud continues to ask: And say that leaven must be removed immediately from the morning of the 14th. The Talmud answers: That is also incorrect, as the verse says, “Yet on the 1st day”; and the word yet divides. The connotation of the word yet is one of restriction. In this context, it teache