Rabbi, Do I Really Have to Polish the Chandelier Before Pesach? Understanding the Mitzvah of ​Bedikat Chametz

MISHNA: On the evening [Ohr] of the fourteenth of the month of Nisan, one searches for leavened bread in his home by candlelight. Any place into which one does not typically take leavened bread does not require a search, as it is unlikely that there is any leavened bread there...

We check - so as to not transgress [the prohibition that Chametz] shall not be seen or found [in your possession].

Mishna - "On the night of the 14th, we search for Chametz". Rashi explains the reason is so that one does not transgress the Torah prohibitions of Chametz being found or seen in your possession. And this is difficult to Rav Yitzchak, since we require Bittul (nullification) as it says in the Gemara (Pesachim 6B) - "One who searches for Chametz needs to annul", and annulment alone is acceptable to avoid the Biblical transgression, why did the Sages require searching at all? It seems to the opinion of Rav Yitzchak the Elder that even though annulment is sufficient, the Rabbis were stringent to require the searching of Chametz and to destroy it so that no person should come to eat Chametz on Passover. And so it is implied later on Pesachim 10b ...

​It was taught in a baraita: If one was sitting in the study hall and remembered that there is Chametz in his house, he should render it null and void in his heart...

Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: One who searches for leaven must render all his leaven null and void, cognitively and verbally. The Gemara asks: What is the reason for this? If you say it is due to crumbs that he failed to detect in his search, they are inherently insignificant, and null and void by definition....

Rava said: The reason for the requirement to render leaven null and void is based on a decree lest he find a fine cake [​​during Pesach] that he did not destroy and his thoughts are upon it. Due to its significance, he will hesitate before removing it and will thus be in violation of the prohibition against owning leaven.

It is significant in his eyes, and he has "pity" on it from burning it, and he keeps it even for a moment, and he thus has transgressed [the prohibition of Chametz being] seen and found in your possession, but once he nullifies, he will not transgress for the Torah merely wrote, Tashbitu. ​

We check all of the places where there is a concern that we brought Chametz into them. Therefore, all of the rooms of the house and the attic require checking, for at times a person enters into them with his bread in his hand. However, wine cellars from which one does not draw supply during meals ... do not require checking.

After you eat the morning meal on that Sabbath, shake out the table cloth that you have eaten upon ...

(17) ושמרתם את המצות And you shall guard the Matzoth: that it shall not reach the stage of becoming leavened...Rabbi Yosiah said: Do not read “את המַּצּוֹת”, the unleavened bread, but את הַמִּצְוֹת “[you shall watch] the commandments” — just as we may not cause the unleavened bread to become leavened by letting the dough remain in its raw state too long, so we may not let the commandment become “leavened” by waiting too long before we perform it; but if a Mitzvah comes to your hand, perform it immediately.

The school of Rabbi Yishmael taught: On the night of the fourteenth one searches for leavened bread by the light of the candle. Although there is no proof for this matter, there is an allusion to this matter ... and it says: “At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,” and it says: “The soul of man is the candle of G-d, searching all the inner parts.”