- Q. Kevodo Yisbarach Shemo. As I was wondering when the Rov was teaching the Halachot of Bedikat Chametz (searching for the Chametz on Pesach), Why is it that no one (as far as I know) says the bracha of Shecheyanu then. Why not?
A. Thank you for writing your questions, please send the rest also. A number of reasons are given for omitting Shecheyanu when searching for the Chametz.
Beer Heitev (O.H. 432: 2) explains that the search for chametz is a most basic obligation and mitzva for the keeping of the Yom Tov of Pesach and real part of it, we therefore rely on the blessing of Shecheyanu that is recited for the Yom Tov itself after Kidush.
However, Avudraham and Pri Megadim (46: 2), quoting the Rashba, mention that the reason is that one recites that blessing usually in times or occasions of joy, not when burning or destroying ones property, as the burning of the chometz requires.
Nevertheless interestingly, Piskei Teshuvos (432: 2) that since after all there are Poskim that opine to recite that blessing, one should eat a new desired fruit or similar, and recite Shecheyanu first before the bedika, as it is analogous to the second day of Rosh Hashana.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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