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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Different Washing for Eating Bread and Going to the Bathroom
Why is there a different style of hand washing for after going to the bathroom (alternating between hands) and before eating bread (consecutively on each hand)?
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Going to the bathroom, Netilas Yadayim, and Hamotzi
If a person needs to move their bowels before a meal and consequently must wash their hands afterwards, can that hand washing satisfy for Hamotzi as well?
Assuming that is the case, would they say ...
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What should you do if you accidentally talk between Al Netilas Yadayim and Hamotzi?
Assuming one has the minhag not to speak between netilas yadayim and hamotzi...What should one do if one accidentally speaks during this time?
Should one wash again? With or without a blessing?
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Do I need to wash and bentch on oatmeal?
I was reading in Artscroll's The Laws of Brachos that if someone eats an amount of mezonos equal to the amount of bread he would have eaten during a meal then he needs to wash and bentch. For some ...
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Netilat Yadayim: Blessing Before or After?
These may not be the original sources for either shiTTah, but two early examples of either of them can be found in the Rambam, Mishneh Thorah - Hilkhoth Berakhoth 6:2 (mevorekh batteHiloh), and in the ...
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After cutting my hair, how many times must I wash my hands?
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 4:19 says:
One who takes a haircut or shaves and does not wash his hands, will be scared for three days [...] and [...] will not know what he is scared of.
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Using an electric hand dryer after netilas yadayim
Is there any issue with using an electric hand dryer to dry your hands after netilas yadayim either for a seudah or to remove ruach rah?
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Washing after the bathroom from a running faucet -- any point?
After using the bathroom some folks let the water run (without opening and closing the faucet) and pass each hand under the faucet 3 times alternating between the right and left hands. Since there's ...
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Licking fingers for Mayim Acharonim?
Since saliva is one of the seven "liquids" (a subcategory of water, cf. Machshirin 6:5), would licking or sucking on one's own fingers fulfill the obligation of Mayim Acharonim?
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Does salad require al netilat yadayim?
Assuming the vegetables used to make a salad were washed prior, does eating such a salad require the washing of hands without a Bracha?
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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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What if, when the Kohanim washing their hands, less than ten remain?
Before Birkas Kohanim, the Levi'im wash the Kohanim's hands. In many communities, this occurs during the chazzan's repitition of Shemoneh Esrei, and in a room outside the main shul.
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"Al n'tilat yadayim" on fast days
On Tisha b'Av and Yom Kippur, we are not supposed to lave our hands. Resultantly, on Tisha b'Av and Yom Kippur, do we say "baruch… n'tilat yadayim" in birchot hashachar?
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Washing for Bread: Need to Do So Again
I heard that one who washed for bread would needs to wash again for if he:
a) touched the hand of one who did not wash,
b) touch a normally covered part of your body,
c) touched excrement (i.e. ...
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Can you use one instance of hand washing for two different things?
Can you use one instance of hand washing, say after leaving a beis hakvaros, to cover you for another, say using the bathroom?
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Women and mayim achronim
I read that women are obligated in washing mayim achronim just as much as men. Where is the halachic source for this?
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Washing Once or Twice
Someone told me that technically one needs to pour water on each hand only once since we use large quantities of water. Is there a halachic source for this?
I heard that the requirement to pour twice ...
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Wiping and Drying
Is there a halachic basis to wipe off one's hands in one's clothes before washing?
Where in halacha is it stated that one is required to wipe off the handle of the washing cup?
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talking after washing
If one talked after washing does he have wash again and is it a hefseik?
Where in halachah is it stated that one should preferably not talk after washing?
I read that the only time you need to wash ...
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Why do we cut nails for mikvah but not hand washing?
When it comes to determining what counts as a chatzitzah for mikvah, we say that nails which are too long (the length that they would bother the person), then they have to be cut or they would ...
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wash hands before eating or touching bread
Is it important to wash one's hands before eating or is also the preparation of the meal important as well? Should one wash before handling bread but not make a brachah or is washing only relevant to ...
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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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where there isn't a vessel available for washing with is there another option available for someone to eat bread?
where there isn't a vessel available for washing with is there another option available for someone to eat bread? Or said another way if the only option for washing my hands is the sink but no cup ...
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which activities require the use of a cup and which require plain washing? [duplicate]
The shulchan aruch lists a bunch of things that require you to do netilat yadyim (siman 23, saif 18):
"The instances when one must do N’tilas Yadayim are the following: One who gets up from his bed, ...
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Are women obligated to say the morning blessings?
Are women obligated to say the morning blessings and perform the ritual hand washing?
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Washing station where one eats
We have a small synagogue: the room where we pray gets converted into the dining area. The back wall of the room has a washing station already. There is some money to update the synagogue, and some ...
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Answering amen to netilat yadayim after your own brocha
You've washed your hands and made a brocha 'al netilat yadayim' and are now waiting for the baal habayit to say hamotzi. If you then hear someone else washing their hands and making the bracha (a ...
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Why does Rav Saadia Gaon say to make a bracha by Orchatz and Borei Nephashot after Karpas?
In the Siddur of Rav Saadia Gaon on page 136, where he discusses the Pesach Seder, he says that when we do Orchatz we are supposed to make a bracha, and after Karpas to say Borei Nephashot. However, ...
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Urchatz Pesach Meal
At the Pesach Seder the Urchatz is the washing of hands without a bracha.
At the Pesach seder our table is like the altar, so since the Kohanim should wash their hands and feet in order to serve or ...
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Mitzva of Netilat Yadaim [duplicate]
Does anybody know what word Netilat exactly means and how it refers to the mitzva of Netilat Yadaim?
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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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Question on the transfer of Ruach Ra'ah [closed]
I've heard ( do not have a source ) that if you don't wash right after waking up, the Ruach Ra'ah transfers itself to all objects you touch. Does this object become tumei? How is it removed from the ...
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Hefsek between netilat yadayim and hamotzi
I have been in situations where most everyone follows the common minhag of washing after kiddush before hamotzi, whereas, unless it is minhag avot for my host, I wash beforehand. '
This has prompted ...
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Washing before Davening - 1 or 3 times?
One must wash before each tefilah (S"A 92:4, 233:2).
Do you need to wash 3 times before davening, or is 1 time sufficient?
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Washing hands after touching a gentile corpse
Does one need to wash hands after touching a gentile corpse just as after a Jewish one?
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Does Ruach Ra'ah transfer between people
If one washes netilays yadaim in the morning and thus eliminates their ruach ra'ah and then someone who has not yet washed their hands touches you do you have to wash again?
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Waking up early to eat before a fast
I was just wondering about the halachos of waking up to eat before a fast day.
If one had intention, is it best to wake up, wash negal vasser, get dressed, go to bathroom say Al Netilas Yadaim, Asher ...
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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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Beracha on washing hands in a natural body of water
Does one recite a different beracha when immersing ones hand in a natural body of water directly? I vaguely remember that there is a beracha of "על טבילת ידים" although I'm unsure.
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How much water do you need for Netilat Yadayim?
When washing your hands for Netilat Yadayim, how much water do you need?
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What's the reason for the opinion that one must wash their hands thrice before eating bread?
Some sects of Ashkenazim (mostly Litvish) wash their hands only twice, while some Sephardim and some Hasidim wash three times.
Based on this answer I know that the first splash gets rid of the ...
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Can you use carbonated water for washing?
Inspired by this question but I believe different because its not related to drinking.
Can you use carbonated, and even flavored clear water (seltzer) to do things that require water such as washing ...
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Walking over Ruah Ra'a: why not?
Some Posekim write (Yalkut Yosef Hilchot Mayim Aharonim and Mishna Berura 181, 4 and IIRC the Magen Avraham) that Mayim Aharonim has Ruah Ra'a and that once someone used the water for Mayim Aharonim ...
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Brachot with no shirt on [duplicate]
Can a man say a bracha when not wearing a shirt? In the morning, for example, before getting fully dressed, one might wash his hands, put on pants and a kippa, say 'al netilat yadayim,' 'asher yatzar,'...
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Why is a utensil required when washing one's hands after bathroom use?
I am under the impression that one is required to wash one's hands with a utensil (typically, the same type of cup used to wash before bread) after using the bathroom.
Firstly, what is the source of ...
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What is Ruach Rah
Right in the beginning of Shulchan Aruch we see this idea of "Ruach Rah". In regards to washing ones hands and all that comes before that -- not walking more than 4 amos without washing one's hands, ...
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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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Bakery workers washing Negel Vasser
In my local bakery there are Jewish non religious workers. Is there a concern that perhaps when they are handling the baked goods they have not washed negel Vasser (morning n'tilas yadayim)?
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Washing feet before coming inside: Avraham vs. Lot
When the angels came to visit Avraham, he asked them (Bereishis 18:4) to "Bathe your feet, and recline under the tree". Rashi explains:
He thought that they were Arabs, who prostrate themselves to ...
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Kissing the mezuzah before netilat yadayim in the morning
Is it permissible to kiss the mezuzah in the morning before you wash your hands (netilat yadayim)?
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