Selling Chametz for the Entire Holiday
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Question
I am leaving home for the entire holiday and plan to return briefly just to take some items like clothing and then leave again. I am planning to sell the house. Do I need to perform a chametz check (perhaps only for the items I plan to take during the holiday)? Also, what kind of sale should be done? Thank you and may you be blessed with mitzvot.
Answer
Shalom Rav,
If you leave before the time of the chametz check, you can, in principle, sell the entire house in the sale of the 13th, and you are exempt from the chametz check in your home.
It is important to remember that you are obligated to perform a chametz check in the home where you are staying during Passover, whether it is a private home or a hotel.
If you are staying in a private home, and the homeowner performs the chametz check there, you are exempt in such a case from the check. However, it is not proper to cancel the chametz check, which is a rabbinic commandment, and it is good to ask the homeowner not to check your room, so you can check it with a blessing.
If you use the house on the night of the 14th of Nisan and leave only afterward, you are obligated to check for chametz.
However, you can mark the places you do not use on the night of the 13th and sell them in the sale of the 13th, thus exempting yourself from the chametz check.
A single entry into a sold house does not cancel the sale, but frequent entries make the sale a mockery, and this is not appropriate at all.