Special 2005 - Seder on Motzei Shabbat
1. Chametz and other preparations
Pesach needs to be ready exactly as if it were Friday night Seder
- searching for chametz Thursday night, finishing chametz and burning
chametz Friday morning, etc., get as much of the Seder ready as
you can, because you can't make any preparations during Shabbat
- and Pesach starts late, after nightfall.
With daylight saving time, this means that the less you have to do
motzei Shabbat - the better - especially as you must also finish
the afikoman before halachic midnight. At least you definitely get a
rest on Shabbat afternoon - and then you can have a light meal after
your siesta.
2. Candles
You'll need a 3 day candle from erev Shabbat, in order to light
candles motzei shabbat and Sunday night in the Diaspora. Candles
for Pesach are lit at the time for the end of Shabbat, and preparations
for Seder may not be made before this time.
3. Making Hamotzi on Shabbat with bread
You can use bread for hamotzi in some other place, carefully, for
both meals; the morning meal will need to be after very early minyan,
with bread eaten before 9-ish or so (times available on calendars and
in Jewish newspapers), this can be eaten as seudah shniah (brunch) and
seudah shlishit can be at lunchtime, without a need for bread. Use disposable
cups, plates for each bread piece eaten, wrap them up - none
to wash.
A. You can use a disposable paper tablecloth and utensils
and make kiddush, hamotzi over it very carefully, then clean it all
up (clothes included), sweep up, and clean remains off anything
you use straight into the toilet, leave the utensils in the disposable
cloth and wrap it up tight. [Paper, not plastic, because you need
to burn it all on Chol Hamoed!]
Then change the cloth and put on Pesach stuff.
B. Or you can make hamotzi and eat the bread on the front porch/outside/on
the balcony, because it's definitely easier to clean up and won't mean
checking your living area.
Then take a drink from the bathroom tap, rinse out your
mouth and brush your teeth, then put away the chametz toothbrushes.
Wrap up any crumbs to burn first day chol hamoed, as for any chametz
found on Pesach.
4. Making Hamotzi on Shabbat with matzah ashira
The Sephardi and Israeli custom is to use matzah ashira, rich matza,
so that there is no chametz in the house after burning it on Friday,
and it can be eaten at the table. This is increasingly the accepted
and recommended solution, but it's not always available in Diaspora
communities.
However, Ashkenazim only eat egg matza before the last permitted time
for eating chametz, so it still means having lunch at breakfast time
and being careful, but it's not as bad.
5. Best online references:
Introductory/general
http://www.aish.com/rabbi/ATR_browse.asp?l=p&offset=13
http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/halak61/19erev4.doc
http://www.yoy.org.il/article.php?id=44
http://www.ohr.org.il/ask_db/ask_main.php/015/Q1/
http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/diduknow/responsa/satnightseder.shtml
http://jewish.com/askarabbi/askarabbi/askr4938.htm
Heavier sources
http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/halak61/16erevpesach-shab.doc
** the most thorough and relevant!
http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/halak61/17erev2.doc
http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/halak61/18erev3.doc
5. When to make Havdalah
Havdalah is made during Kiddush that opens the Seder, it is in the
Haggadah as the preface to Kiddush; it has to be after nightfall, obviously.