Questions tagged [netilat-yadayim-washing]
Ritual hand washing. Required before or after certain actions, e.g before eating bread, after waking up, etc.
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Can you fulfill Netilat Yadayim by dipping your hands in a sink?
According to the Gemara in Hullin on 107a, if there's a vessel with a hole in it, and there's a "stream" (more than a drip but not necessarily the "sheffoferet hannod" required for a real mikveh) ...
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Why doesn't "first waters" in hand washing make the hand tamei?
In Mishnah Yadayim 2:3, we learn that the "first waters" (the first of two splashes of water) poured on the hands while doing ritual hand-washing is tamei (if less than a certain amount), ...
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What part of the arm is considered "below the wrist"
What part of the arm is considered "below the wrist" in regards to Netilat Yadayim and is off limits to touch in order to avoid impure water?
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Showering in the morning
If a person showers right when they wake up, does it remove the impurity from their hands since a shower acts as a mikvah? Or do they still have to do washing from a vessel?
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What exactly is "the salt of sodom"?
One is obligated to wash one's hands after a meal due to danger of "sodom salt" which is said to cause blindness.
R. Judah the son of R. Hiyya said: Why did [the Rabbis] say that
it was a ...
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Kavanah while washing hands
When washing the hands, either before bread, or in the morning, must you have the correct kavanah (intent)?
For example, if i pick up the cup in the morning thinking i'll do 2-2 (like washing for ...
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Washing (with a blessing) before continuing a meal with no more bread
As noted elsewhere on the site, the Shulchan Aruch (OC 164:2) rules that someone who, in the middle of a bread meal, touches his thigh must then wash his hands and say the blessing "al n'tilas yadayim"...
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Water from washing that ran onto sleeves- Is it tumah?
If after raising hands for netilat yadayim the water from the hands ran down onto sleeves, is that water on the sleeves then rendered tumah?
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Are hands rendered tumah if water flowed down after second or third pour?
When performing morning netilat yadayim, are the hands rendered tumah if during the second or third pour the water is poured above the wrists?
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Can you use water you drank from for negel vasar
What do the sources say about this case: someone drank from a water bottle - could they use the water remaining in the bottle for "negel wasser"?
And does it make a difference if when you ...
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Does other food combine to a c'beitza for the bracha of netilas yadayim?
It's a well known halacha that if one intends to eat less than a k'zais of bread then one doesn't make a bracha on al netilas yadayim.
This comes up sometimes on Pesach when there's not enough Matzah ...
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Washing Hands with Soap after Netilat Yadayim
Is a person allowed to wash his hands with soap after netilat yadayim for bread before making the Hamotzi blessing on bread? Or perhaps it is some kind of hefsek (interruption) between the two like ...
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Does kri'at shmaʿ on its own require handwashing?
If one is going to recite kri'at shmaʿ on its own (in order to recite it in its proper time), do you need to wash your hands first specially for the purpose? I.e., you're going to be davvening ...
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Water from the Kohanim washing their hands by nei'lah
I heard about a minhag the other day (for the first time) and was wondering if there is any makor for it. I was told that people ran out to "catch" the water that was used to wash the Kohanim's hands ...
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Segula for netilat yadayim apply when using other peoples' water?
"Rabbi Chisda said: I wash my hands with an abundance of water and I
am granted an abundance of goodness" (Shabbat 62b).
There's also a story from the Zohar with Rabbi Elazar Ben Shimon, ...
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Can Animals Be Affected By Ruach Ra’ah
Can a person’s animal be affected by Ruach ra’ah if one touches their pet’s mouth or the inside of their ear before doing morning netilat yadayim?
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Touching a door knob before washing after waking up
Should I be concerned about touching my door knob to go into another room to wash upon awakening? My guess is that it is aluminum which is generally said not to contract tumah but I am kind of ...
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Can noahide do netilat yadayim?
I wanted to ask about the halacha of noahide based on tradition of orthodox, that according to some sources, a noahide was refrain from some blessing which required "asher kidshanu" which ...
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Washing for Urchatz when you eat your Karpas with a fork
Based on the Gemara in Pesachim 115a-b (as explained by the primary Meforshim there) the reason we wash before Karpas is so that our hands don't make the water on the vegetables Tamei when we touch ...
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Must a kiddush cup be both clean and dry?
The kiddush cup needs washing inside and out (O Ch 183:1).
The hands need to be washed before eating bread. One may not eat bread with wet hands – it is like eating impure bread according to the ...
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Washing ones hands prior to Torah on this website
Does one have to wash his hands before
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A Halachic /Torah related post on Mi yodeya. This is assuming he didn't remember if he touched a covered area without ...
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Do kashrut rules apply to a Washing laver?
Are there any halachot that apply the rules of kashrut to the cup I use to wash my hands before I eat?
This answer says that one can use "any cup". This site says that a cup can be drunk from and the ...
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Why make/buy a washing cup with only one handle?
The purpose of a washing cup is to purify the hands. There are two handles on most washing cups. This allows us to avoid transmitting impurity from the unwashed hand to the washed hand by way of the ...
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If hands are in water through the night must they be washed in the morning?
If one sleeps through the night with hands in water must one wash hands for netilat yadayim in the morning?
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Water of cracked Kli
Recalling a shiur on netilat yadayim, the speaker said that one is not allowed to do so if the kli of choice is leaking. You have to get another kli or otherwise go about washing differently.
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Should you say al netilat yadaim if you're not sure how much bread you will be eating?
http://www.berachot.org/Q+A/q9.html:
According to Sephardim, if one ate less than a kezayit of bread
there's no obligation to wash, if one ate one kezayit one should wash
without a Bracha of Al ...
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What is the order for putting on a tallis katan in the morning?
I heard that upon waking up, even before washing al netilas yadayim, you put on your tallis katan, then wash your hands, use the bathroom, wash hands again and then make an al netilas yadayim....and ...
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Mayim Achronim according to the Rama
The Rama in his Darkei Moshe writes that we pasken like Tosfos that today mayim achronim is not necessary.
However, The Mechaber 181:10 writes that there is an opinion who holds we don't do mayim ...
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Halacha of putting on talit Katan in the morning
I was just wondering about the halacha of waking up in the morning and putting on tallit katan. When I wake up I wash my hands (negal vasser) then get dressed and put on my tallit katan with a bracha (...
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Water as a chatzitzah
I learned that Birkei Yosef holds that non-mikvah water may be considered a chatzitzah. That is why we make sure our hands are completely dry before we wash them ritually. It may be why some are ...
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Water From Morning Netilat Yadayim
If the water from morning netilat yadayim dried on a particular area, and was then touched by an individual who washed their hands, would one then have to wash their hands again?
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Does one wash his hands upon waking up from cryostasis?
Assuming that cryonics is permissible:
NASA is reportedly looking into cryostasis technology in preparation for a Mars mission. As I understand the theoretical technology, any astronauts who would ...
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Washing before bracha on new clothes
According to my siddur (p. 231 of The Complete Artscroll Siddur), one makes a shehechyanu upon buying new clothes, and a malbish arumim upon putting them on once acquired. (I have heard from other ...
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