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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 Yadyaim?==
==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>.