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Sleeping before bedikat chametz

Question

Is it permitted to go to sleep after sunset before performing bedikat chametz, if one appoints someone to remind me to get up and do the bedikah?

Answer

Shalom u’vracha 

It is forbidden to engage in anything before the bedikah. 

Answered 31 March 2026 How answers are reviewed
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Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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