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[[Netilat Yadayim]] is a ritual washing of one's hands. It is requires at certain points during the day including [[waking up]], before a meal, and before [[davening]]. For those halachot, see the following pages: [[Netilat Yadayim upon Waking Up]], [[Netilat Yadayim for a meal]], [[Netilat Yadayim in preparation for Davening]]. For any other washing, see the details below. | [[Netilat Yadayim]] is a ritual washing of one's hands. It is requires at certain points during the day including [[waking up]], before a meal, and before [[davening]]. For those halachot, see the following pages: [[Netilat Yadayim upon Waking Up]], [[Netilat Yadayim for a meal]], [[Netilat Yadayim in preparation for Davening]]. For any other washing, see the details below. | ||
==Which Activities Require Netilat | ==Which Activities Require Netilat Yadayim?== | ||
# One should wash [[netilat yadayim]] after one: | # One should wash [[netilat yadayim]] after one: | ||
## sleeps, | ## sleeps, | ||
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## scratches one's head, | ## scratches one's head, | ||
## enters a cemetery. <ref>Yalkut Yosef 4:42 </ref> | ## enters a cemetery. <ref>Yalkut Yosef 4:42 </ref> | ||
==After Leaving the Bathroom== | ==After Leaving the Bathroom== | ||
# The Shulchan Aruch (4:18) quotes from several rishonim<ref>Amongst them the Mordechai in [[Brachos]] (194)</ref> that there is an obligation for one to wash netilas yadayim upon leaving a bathroom even if one did not relieve themselves<ref>Pointed out by Mishna Brurah 4:40</ref>. | # The Shulchan Aruch (4:18) quotes from several rishonim<ref>Amongst them the Mordechai in [[Brachos]] (194)</ref> that there is an obligation for one to wash netilas yadayim upon leaving a bathroom even if one did not relieve themselves<ref>Pointed out by Mishna Brurah 4:40</ref>. | ||
Revision as of 17:34, 18 October 2015
Netilat Yadayim is a ritual washing of one's hands. It is requires at certain points during the day including waking up, before a meal, and before davening. For those halachot, see the following pages: Netilat Yadayim upon Waking Up, Netilat Yadayim for a meal, Netilat Yadayim in preparation for Davening. For any other washing, see the details below.
Which Activities Require Netilat Yadayim?
- One should wash netilat yadayim after one:
- sleeps,
- goes to the bathroom,
- touches one's shoes,
- touches one's legs,
- touches an area that usually covered,
- scratches one's head,
- enters a cemetery. [1]
After Leaving the Bathroom
- The Shulchan Aruch (4:18) quotes from several rishonim[2] that there is an obligation for one to wash netilas yadayim upon leaving a bathroom even if one did not relieve themselves[3].
- The Gemara (Brachos 26a) describes a beis hakisei diParsai, which was a particularly clean bathroom because the waste would roll down to a pit a distance from the actual toilet, and therefore did not have some of the dinim of regular bathrooms. Modern poskim query whether our bathrooms should be treated like a beis hakisei diParai, and thus one would not require netilas yadayim upon exiting them, or not. The Chazon Ish (17:4) leaves this question in doubt, since unlike the bathrooms of the Parsai, in which the waste was removed immediately[4], our toilets hold the waste for a period of time until it is flushed away. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichos Shlomo Tefilla 20:24), however, is lenient about this, and the Minchas Yitzchok (teshuva 1:60) concludes that in cases of need (bishas hadchak) one may be lenient not to wash upon leaving our bathrooms.
