When Passover is Saturday Night

Special Preparations for Passover When It Begins on Saturday Night:
First Night of Passover is Saturday, March 27

B'dikat Hametz
When Passover begins on Saturday night, we do b'dikat hametz/searching for hametz on Thursday night. B'dikat Hametz is a fun activity for all. Hide 10 crackers in a set room in the house. You can use any hametz you'd like - cheerios, oreos, croutons! Traditionally, the search is completed with a wooden spoon, feather and candle to search out the hametz. You can use a flashlight instead of a candle. It's most important to write down (or remember!) where you hid the hametz. Once all the hametz is collected we recite the special prayer for this mitzvah.
Before the search, recite: Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu melekh haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav, v’tzivanu al biur hametz. Praised are You Adonai our God, who rules the universe, instilling in us the holiness of mitzvot by commanding us to remove all hametz. 

Biur Hametz
If your home will be completely ready for Passover before Shabbat and you will be eating kosher for Pesach on Shabbat, Friday morning dispose of the hametz collected the night before by 11:59 am (NYC) either by biur/burning (carefully in the sink), flushing down the toilet (be careful of your pipes),disposing in a public garbage can, or as the tradition teaches, by scattering it to the wind (feeding the birds or pigeons). Then offer the nullification blessing found below and often in the opening pages of the Haggadah.
If you will have hametz on Friday evening/Saturday morning, dispose of your hametz by 11:59 am (NYC) on Saturday morning as above except for biur/burning as we do not use fire on Shabbat. Then offer the nullification blessing below.

Blessing to nullify hametz, recited either Friday or Saturday morning as appropriate and explained above. 
Kol hamira v’hamia d’ika virshuti, d’la hamiteih udla viarteih udla y’dana leih, libateil v’lehevei hefkeir k’afra d’ara/All hametz in my possession which I have not seen or removed, or of which I am unaware, is hereby nullified and ownerless as the dust of the earth.  

For those who wish to eat challah on Shabbat when Passover begins Saturday night:
Eat hametz very carefully! You might use paper plates or eat outside in the park.
For those who do not want hametz crumbs in the house on Friday night/Saturday, choose egg matzah, neither bread nor hametz. Use two sheets in place of challah, keeping your table Kosher for Passover. 

Candlelighting:
Lighting new flame is not permitted on yom tov. Instead, we use an existing flame for cooking and other purposes. Prior to Shabbat, light a candle that will burn for more than 25 hours. Use this candle to transfer flame to light your yom tov candles. 
We begin yom tov with candle lighting, affirming our sacred relationship with the holy through these flames. Two candles, just like Shabbat, connecting us to the past and lighting our way into the future. Find the blessings for lighting yom tov candles HERE along with a blessing for a third candle for peace and well-being for each of us and our world. 

Havdalah:
When Yom Tov begins following Shabbat, Havdalah is part of Kiddush. Yom Tov candles are used for the blessing over light - borei m'orei ha'esh, spices are not used and the final blessing is hamavdil bein kodesh l'kodesh. Kiddush concludes with the Sheheheyanu. Find kiddush for this Saturday night in the Lev Shalem Siddur on pp.79-80 or in your Haggadah.  

Seder Starting time on Saturday night:
Traditionally, Seder begins once Shabbat is over. This year that happens at 7:57 pm, 3 stars in the sky, in NYC. The Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Movement also endorses the opportunity to begin Seder at any time after what is called plag haminha (in some circumstances, plag haminha is considered the beginning of the next day). They write...acceptance of the Yom Tov (holy day) means that it is now the appropriate time for performance of all night-time rituals, including matzah and maror. From this perspective, one could begin seder any time after 5:58 pm (plag haminha that day) on Saturday, March 27, 2021.

Important Times for Passover

Thursday, March 25
Ta'anit B'chorot and Siyyum/Fast of the Firstborn 
B'dikat Hametz, Search for Hametz in the Evening 
  
Saturday, March 27
   Latest Time to Eat Hametz, 10:56 am
Latest Time to Dispose of Hametz, 11:59 am      
Traditional Seder Start Time, 7:57 pm

Sunday, March 28
Candlelighting for Second Night of Pesach, 7:58 pm

Monday, March 29
Yom Tov Ends, 7:59 pm

Friday, April 2
Candlelighting, 7:04 pm

Saturday, April 3
Candlelighting, 8:05 pm

Sunday, April 4
Yom Tov ends, 8:06 pm