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The onset of Passover last Wednesday, for example, meant the ritual burning of “chometz,” year-round food considered tainted by leavening.

This year, each apartment building was given a big yellow bag to collect residents’ chometz, sanitation crews took the bags to the town dump and a few rabbis presided over the ritual incineration.

On the last evening before the beginning of the Passover they had been present at the Chometz batteln.

The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz.

There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven.