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Searching for homets before Passover. The tools used are a feather to brush up the homets, a spoon to collect them and a candle to search with. A prayer is read while carrying out ritual. When all the homets are collected they are burnt with everything else in the house that contains yeast.

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Searching for homets before Passover. The tools used are a feather to brush up the homets, a spoon to collect them and a candle to search with. A prayer is read while carrying out ritual. When all the homets are collected they are burnt with everything else in the house that contains yeast.