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==Obligation==
==Obligation==
# Asher Yatzar is said every time that one releases excrement, even if it was a minute amount <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 7:5 </ref> This applies to both solid and liquid waste <ref> Aruch Hashulchan 7:1 </ref>
# Any time one goes to the bathroom (urinating or moving one's bowels) one is obligated to say the bracha of Asher Yatzer. <ref> S”A 7:1 writes that anytime that one goes to the bathroom one is obligated to say Asher Yatzer. </ref>Asher Yatzar is said every time that one releases excrement, even if it was a minute amount <ref>S"A 7:4, Aruch HaShulchan 7:5 </ref> This applies to both solid and liquid waste. <ref> Aruch Hashulchan 7:1 </ref>
# If one forgot to say Asher Yatzar after going to the bathroom and subsequently relieved himself again, there is a machlokes if he should say Asher Yatzar twice. <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 7:4 </ref> The Shulchan Aruch says that one should but the Aruch HaShulchan disagrees and says that one should never make more than one asher yatzar <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 7:4 </ref> Additionally, the Aruch HaShulchan says that if one went to the bathroom but forgot to say Asher Yatzar and subsequently needed to relieve himself again, he should first relieve himself and then say one beracha of Asher Yatzar <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 7:4 </ref>
# One should say asher yatzar immediately after using the bathroom. <ref> Mishna Berura 7:6. </ref> However, if one didn't say it immediately, many authorities hold that one can still say it for 72 minutes after going to the bathroom. <ref> Halacha Berura 7:5 writes that one has up to 72 minutes after having used the bathroom. Sh"t Yechave Daat 4:5 says that if you only remembered after 72 minutes to say the beracha without shem u'malchut. </ref> Yet, other authorities say that one should not say past 30 minutes after going to the bathroom.<ref>Rivevot Efraim 8:2 writes that he originally ruled like Rav Ovadyah wrote in Yachave Daat (see previous note) that one may say it up until 72 minutes, however, after seeing many others who argued he said that one should be concerned for the opinion that says that one should not say it past 30 minutes after going to the bathroom. See also Rav Ovadyah in Yabea Omer 9:3 in his response to the author of the Revivot Efraim on this issue. See also Ben Ish Chai (Vayetze #12) who writes that one shouldn't say Asher Yatzer after 30 minutes after going to the bathroom.</ref>
# If one used the bathroom and forgot to say asher yatzar and then used the bathroom again, only one beracha should be recited to cover both uses. <ref> S"A 7:3 says that asher yatzar should be recited twice. However, most achronim including Mishna Berura 7:6, Kaf Hachayim 7:5, and Aruch HaShulchan 7:4 quote both possibilities and conclude that because of safek brachot lihakel one should not say more than one bracha. </ref> Additionally, the Aruch HaShulchan says that if one went to the bathroom but forgot to say Asher Yatzar and subsequently needed to relieve himself again, he should first relieve himself and then say one beracha of Asher Yatzar <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 7:4 </ref>
# A person who still feels an urge to go to the bathroom again immediately after using the bathroom (diarrhea), should only say asher yatzar when he feels like he has cleared his bowels. <ref> Mishna Berura 7:2, Kaf Hachayim 7:2 </ref>
# Women are obligated to say Asher Yatzar as well. <ref> Ben Ish Chai Vayetze Halacha 15 </ref>
# If a person is unsure whether he recited asher yatzar or not, he should not recite it. <ref> Birkei Yosef 7:3 </ref>
 
==Asher Yatzer as part of Birchot HaShachar==
# In the morning, one who goes to the bathroom should make the Bracha of Asher Yatzer. If one slept (more than 30 minutes) then, according to Ashkenazim, one should make the Bracha of Asher Yatzer even if one didn’t go to the bathroom. <Ref> Rama 4:1 writes that one should make Asher Yatzer even if one didn’t go to the bathroom. Mishna Brurah 4:3 comments that this is only true if one slept at night. </ref> However, according to Sephardim, one shouldn't say Asher Yatzer unless one went to the bathroom.<ref>Kaf HaChaim 4:9</ref>
# If one woke in the middle of the night, one should make Asher Yatzer then and another Asher Yatzer in the morning. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 4:3 writes that it’s preferable to make Asher Yatzer after one goes to the bathroom and not to push it off until Davening, because it’s likely one will one go again and then not have made a Asher Yatzer for the first time. </ref>
 


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