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==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>. Many poskim hold no kli is necessary and neither is 3 times.<ref>https://www.ou.org/torah/machshava/tzarich-iyun/tzarich_iyun_washing_after_leaving_the_washroom/ quoting Yalkut Yosef v. 3 p. 96. He points out that there is a stringency to wash with a kli outside the bathroom but washing with a kli in the bathroom is pointless.</ref>
# 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<ref>As the Rabeinu Yonah quotes from Rav Hai Gaon on the Gemara in [[Brachos]]</ref>, 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.
# 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<ref>As the Rabeinu Yonah quotes from Rav Hai Gaon on the Gemara in [[Brachos]]</ref>, 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.
==Links==
==Links==
* [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/815009/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Washing_Hands_After_Bloodletting,_and_Cutting_Fingernails,_Hair_and_ Ten Minute Halacha - Washing Hands After Bloodletting, and Cutting Fingernails, Hair] by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
* [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/815009/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Washing_Hands_After_Bloodletting,_and_Cutting_Fingernails,_Hair_and_ Ten Minute Halacha - Washing Hands After Bloodletting, and Cutting Fingernails, Hair] by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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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.

Which Activities Require Netilat Yadayim?

  1. One should wash netilat yadayim after one:
    1. sleeps,
    2. goes to the bathroom,
    3. touches one's shoes,
    4. touches one's legs,
    5. touches an area that usually covered,
    6. scratches one's head,
    7. enters a cemetery. [1]

After Leaving the Bathroom

  1. 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]. Many poskim hold no kli is necessary and neither is 3 times.[4]
  2. 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[5], 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.

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  1. ↑ Yalkut Yosef 4:42
  2. ↑ Amongst them the Mordechai in Brachos (194)
  3. ↑ Pointed out by Mishna Brurah 4:40
  4. ↑ https://www.ou.org/torah/machshava/tzarich-iyun/tzarich_iyun_washing_after_leaving_the_washroom/ quoting Yalkut Yosef v. 3 p. 96. He points out that there is a stringency to wash with a kli outside the bathroom but washing with a kli in the bathroom is pointless.
  5. ↑ As the Rabeinu Yonah quotes from Rav Hai Gaon on the Gemara in Brachos
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