Daily Talk
The Torah lets you destroy your chametz with a resolve of the heart - nullify it, consider it as dust, and by Torah law it is gone, even if your house is full of bread. So why did the Sages, in the very next breath, make you search every dark hole by candlelight for the thing you just declared to be dust? Because they knew how hard it is to actually mean it.
By the Light of a Candle
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About This Talk
Chametz u'Matzah 2 moves from bittul, the inner nullification that the Torah accepts as destruction, to the Sages' insistence that you search anyway - by candlelight, at night, in exactly the cracks you would rather leave dark. Its long meditation on doubt, the mouse and the weasel and the fixed nine-to-one, and its accounting of whose corner is whose, all read as one thing: the search of the house has always been a picture of the search of the self.