Throughout the week, we will try to provide our readers with some thoughts on the upcoming Holiday of Pesach. We hope you enjoy:
Next Tuesday night, we will all gather with our families in our homes to perform the Mitzvah of Bedikas Chametz. After we search, we put what we found aside, and burn it the next day together with the feather and spoon that we used to collect the Chametz. R' Mirsky in his 
Hegyonei Halacha Haggadah suggests that one should also burn the candle with which he searched his house for Chametz. Why is this necessary? Did the candle touch the Chametz? R' Mirsky quotes the Belzer Rebbe who explained that the candle was used to look for something negative. The rise of the yeast in Chametz represents haughtiness, and negative Middos that one may carry. the candle is symbolic of an attitude of always looking and searching for the negative attitudes of an individual. Such an attitude must be completely destroyed from this world. We can never tolerate such an outlook on life. Let us take this lesson of the Belzer Rebbe to learn to always look for the good in people, in our homes and communities.
Hegyonei Halacha Haggadah suggests that one should also burn the candle with which he searched his house for Chametz. Why is this necessary? Did the candle touch the Chametz? R' Mirsky quotes the Belzer Rebbe who explained that the candle was used to look for something negative. The rise of the yeast in Chametz represents haughtiness, and negative Middos that one may carry. the candle is symbolic of an attitude of always looking and searching for the negative attitudes of an individual. Such an attitude must be completely destroyed from this world. We can never tolerate such an outlook on life. Let us take this lesson of the Belzer Rebbe to learn to always look for the good in people, in our homes and communities. 
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