Questions tagged [bathroom]
Questions pertaining to the bathroom.
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kohanim mikvah after bathroom
Rabbi Shlomo Calerbach says kohanim would go to the mikvah after going to the bathroom
And that Rav Yoel the satmar Rebbe also did this
Looking for written sources for both of these ideas
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Going to bathroom during Tefilla - can one read?
It is halacha that if one has needs (gadol) during tefilla, and can't hold it, one should go. To keep this very complex halachic discussion simple, let's just assume that we are talking about a ...
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Child wants bathroom during parent's Amidah
Are there any halachic guidelines when a child tells the parent that he wants to go to bathroom during the Amidah?
This occurred to me multiple times, with my 4-year-old who can use the bathroom alone ...
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How did temple priests and visitors go about relieving themselves without desecrating the sanctity of the Beit Hamikdash?
Judaism has very strict rules around human waste and separating God from such things. You may not even speak God's names within a restroom.
This leads to my question regarding the temple priesthood ...
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Is doing mitzvos, specifically thought mitzvos, allowed in the bathroom? [duplicate]
It is brought down by various poskim that Torah study is forbidden in the bathroom, albeit it is a debate whether today’s bathrooms have the same status.
May one perform mitzvos in a bathroom? ...
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Wiping toilet seat on Shabbos
If one urinates a few drops on the toilet seat on Shabbos, is he permitted to wipe off the urine with a detached toilet paper, or would this be forbidden because urine is muktzeh?
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Bringing Tefillin into Airport Bathroom [duplicate]
If I’m in an airport, traveling with my tefillin, and need the bathroom and have nowhere I can leave my tefillin (against airport rules to just leave them unattended and no one to leave them with), ...
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Talking In Bathrooms
The Rema in או"ח סי' ג סעיף ב says that it is impermissible to talk in the bathroom. The Mishna Berura adds the Gemara in Berachos 65b, that even in order to let someone trying to enter know that ...
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Gedolim books in the bathroom
Is it permissible to read gedolim books in the bathroom or is it forbidden?
Would it change the Halacha based off what the contents of the book are? For example, some of these books just contain ...
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Asher Yatzar and bathroom doors [duplicate]
Must one close the bathroom door before saying Asher Yatzar? Or May one say it even with it open? Assume for this case that you’d be facing the door (if that affects the answer at all.)
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Saying brocho in modern restroom [duplicate]
I've been going through the Mishna Berura on saying shma in restrooms (מ״ב סימנים פ״א-פ״ז so far) and I'm rather curious what the halacha is relating to modern restrooms. (This question only discussed ...
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Does anyone know of the following quote from Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz?
I am looking for the source on the quote from Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz: "“If a person would know what happens to the food from the moment they put it into their mouth to the moment it leaves their body,...
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Bracha near a bathroom
Note -- I am not asking about the whether one is allowed to pray near a bathroom in this sense.
As per the rules on this website, thinking Torah thoughts is not allowed in a bathroom. As such, would ...
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Why mention healing everyone after the restroom and Jews in the amida?
After we use the restroom, we recite a benediction praising God for our ability to do so. The benediction ends by referring to him as the one "who heals all flesh", viz all people.
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Why did Ben Azzai copy Rabbi Akiva?
In today's Daf Yomi, Brachot 62a, it says:
It was taught in a baraita in tractate Derekh Eretz that Rabbi Akiva said: I once entered the bathroom after my teacher Rabbi Yehoshua, and I learned ...
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Is it permitted to think about God / Hashem in the bathroom?
One may not learn Torah in the bathroom, even if the thoughts are not verbally expressed. That made me wonder if it is permitted to think about God. My definition of "thinking about God" would be ...
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What is considered learning Torah in the bathroom?
It is prohibited to learn Torah in the bathroom (source needed).
How far does this prohibition go? Are we not allowed to say pesukim, but allowed to think them? Is there a difference between tanach ...
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Did Miriam's well waters cause a need to use bathroom?
IIRC, the Manna was miraculously and wastelessly absorbed by the body.
Did the water they drank from Miriam's miraculous well also possess miraculous properties and was wasteless or it was regular ...
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What did Elijah say about Baal?
When Eliahu HaNavi confronted the prophets of Baal and they couldn't deliver, he told them [1Kings 18:27]:
וַיְהִ֨י בַֽצָּהֳרַ֜יִם וַיְהַתֵּ֧ל בָּהֶ֣ם אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ קִרְא֤וּ בְקוֹל־גָּדוֹל֙ ...
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Bringing a virtual Torah in the bathroom? [duplicate]
Knowing the issur of bringing a Sefer into a tamei place, can I bring a virtual Sefer into the bathroom? (I.e a phone with a davening app on it) would it matter if the app was open or closed? If the ...
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Are OC 3:2 and 3:13 practiced nowadays? [duplicate]
In OC 3, the Shulchan Aruch discusses many halachos regarding using the bathroom. Many of these seem to be disregarded with the relatively modern invent of the urinal; this is particularly concerning ...
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At what point should one recite Bracha asher yatzar
Having washed one's hands after excusing oneself, Does one say the bracha asher yatzar after drying our hands or before? Some guy taught that we're to say the bracha before drying the hands.
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Use of an automatic toilet on Shabbos?
Can one use on Shabbos an automatic toilet with an electric sensor that triggers the flushing mechanism when you are done? For example in a hotel lobby, or a public building. Assume there is no other ...
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Facebooking in the bathroom
It is forbidden to think, speak or read words of Torah while using the bathroom as per Shulchan Aruch O:C 85:2 [based on Shabbos 40b]
If a person is using the bathroom and they know that from time to ...
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Reward for saying Asher Yatzar
Is saying Asher Yatzar, the blessing after using the bathroom, something that one will get rewarded for? Will one get rewarded for each time he said Asher Yatzar?
Please cite sources.
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What partition is needed to wash your hands in a bathroom for bread or davening?
I heard rumours that after walking into a bathroom, nowadays, you're required to wash you're hands three times (as in, I've seen some Rabbi do this: after just walking into a bathroom to get something,...
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May one listen to the shofar if one is standing in an unclean place?
A question by רבות מחשבות here asked about counting the Omer in the bathroom. In the spirit of Elul, that raises the question if one may listen to the shofar while standing in an unclean place?
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Taking teffilin off after saying bracha
What should someone do, who has the urge to use the bathroom right after saying the brachah on putting on the tefillin? Shall he put the tefillin shel yad and tefillin shel rosh and remove them? Or ...
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Learning Derashos or Pshat of Alternate Readings of Tanach
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In this week's Parsha (Devarim 11:4), the Chizkuni says the following:
אשר הציף מי ים סוף על פניהם ברדפם אחריהם – ברדוף המים אחרי המצרים, והיינו דכתיב: נערמו מים, שתרגם אונקלוס: חכימו מיא,...
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How can using the bathroom be equated to the pleasure of the afterlife?
There are three things which are a taste of the World to Come: Shabbat, the sun, and “usage.” What does “usage” mean? Usage of the bed [i.e. marital relations]? But that weakens the body. Rather it ...
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Putting breadcrumbs in the toilet
Mishnah Berurah writes in 180:10 that while throwing crumbs onto the ground where they will be stepped on is kasha l'aninus, God forbid, this does not apply when the crumbs are thrown into water. ...
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Counting Sefiras Haomer in the Bathroom
If one is (stuck) in a bathroom with a short amount of time left until sunset, and realizes that he has not yet counted Sefirah for that day, and will not be out of the bathroom before sunset, may he ...
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BS"D in the bathroom
I noticed my shampoo says בס״ד on the bottle. Is having it in the bathroom, etc., a problem? (My guess is no, or else they wouldn't put it on there, but still.)
Related: Dr. Bronner's soap
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The Baltimore Throne
There is a practice when building certain houses to include a "Baltimore Throne", a working toilet in the basement which sits on its own. (Though I don't live in Baltimore I have seen it in houses in ...
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Can someone say Asher Yatzar for another?
Can someone say asher Yatzar for a sick, mute, hospitalized or any other person who has excreted but is unable to say the bracha himself? Does the person who excreted have to have any da'at or kavana ...
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Would reading a seforim catalog in the bathroom be prohibited?
You aren't supposed to study Torah or even think about Torah thoughts while in a place of uncleanliness, such as the bathroom. (See here and here.)
But what about a catalog that sells seforim such as ...
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What is the status of Koheles and Shir HaShirim in the bathroom?
Depending on the Tanna, Koheles and Shir HaShirim might not be considered a part of Tanach, but merely written from Shlomo HaMelech's wisdom. Therefore, unlike books of Tanach, one who touches these ...
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Ring With Part of Pasuk Engraved on it
I have a silver ring with the words "Gam Ki Elech Lo Ira Ra Ki Ata Imadi" engraved into it. It is the same font as words in a torah.
The words are meant to be written as a play on words from psalm 23 ...
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Blessings exiting bathroom [duplicate]
After going to the bathroom during the day, does one recite al netalis yadiam and esher yatzarh?
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Are you allowed to use a plunger to unclog a toilet on shabbos?
Are you allowed to use a plunger to unclog a toilet on shabbos?
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Reading Mi Yodeya in the bathroom
Is it ok to open Mi Yodeya in the bathroom and skim through the questions trying to find ones that aren't really included in limud ha'torah in order to read them? Or is the opening of the app and the ...
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Bathroom halachos in the bathroom
One may not learn Torah in the bathroom. May one learn Torah that pertains to halachos of the bathroom that came up in the bathroom, or must one leave the bathroom, check the halachah, and return to ...
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Hemorrhoids on Shabbos
What are the Halachos about one with Hemorroids on Shabbos?
Is he allowed to use the bathroom/wipe, as this might cause him to bleed?
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Speaking as you enter a bathroom?
Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim, Siman 3, Seif 1 says;
כְּשֶׁיִּכָּנֵס לְבֵית הַכִּסֵא יֹאמְרוּ הִתְכַּבְּדוּ מְכֻבָּדִים וְכו'.
וְעַכְשָׁו לֹא נָהֲגוּ לְאָמְרוֹ
When one enters into the throne room (...
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Torah songs, and earworms, in the bathroom
It's forbidden to think about Torah in the bathroom. Is it permissible to think about a song whose lyrics are Torah? If not, what about an earworm (stuck song) that you just can't get rid of?
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Is there a minimum amount of urine that is considered "Going to the bathroom" for the purpose of making a blessing?
After eating food or drinking beverage, we say a blessing; however, this is only the case if some minimum amount of food or beverage has been consumed.
Likewise, after going to the bathroom, we say a ...
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Bedikat Chametz in the Bathroom
One cannot think about Torah in the bathroom, as per http://www.torahmusings.com/2011/08/bathroom-etiquette/ which cites Berachot 26a, Shabbat 150a, Rambam Kriat Shema 3:4. This "thinking" seems to ...
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Proper way for a man to urinate while standing
Maran HaShulḥan 'Arukh, citing the Talmud Bavli (Niddah 13B), states that a man must avoid holding his member when urinating (Oraḥ Ḥayim 3:14). That is, holding me'atarah u'lema'alah is forbidden ...
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Are you allowed to take newspapers with divrey torah into the bathroom?
You're not allowed to take holy items into the bathroom/wash-house. If a newspaper has mostly advertisements but it also has a few pages of divrey torah, are you allowed to take such a newspaper into ...
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Is there a deadline for Asher yatzar [duplicate]
I know there is a deadline for brochois after a meal (until hungry again, 72 min). But if one did not say Asher yatzar, for how much time can one say it?
What are the sources on this subject?
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