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# The water must be poured onto one's hands with a cup so that it is poured by the strength of a person.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:8</ref> In an extenuating circumstance when it is impossible to get water poured on one's hands one can dip one's hands in a cup which has a reviyit of water. Nonetheless, one may not recite a bracha on such a washing and one should hold the bread with a napkin.<ref>Mishna Brurah 159:57</ref> If afterwards one was able to wash normally they should without a bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:8</ref> | # The water must be poured onto one's hands with a cup so that it is poured by the strength of a person.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:8</ref> In an extenuating circumstance when it is impossible to get water poured on one's hands one can dip one's hands in a cup which has a reviyit of water. Nonetheless, one may not recite a bracha on such a washing and one should hold the bread with a napkin.<ref>Mishna Brurah 159:57</ref> If afterwards one was able to wash normally they should without a bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:8</ref> | ||
# The water can be poured by anyone including a child or non-Jew.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:11</ref> Some say that a child below six shouldn't be used.<ref>Rama 159:11. Mishna Brurah 159:70 quotes the Gra who held that the child of any age is acceptable to pour the water for netilat yadayim.</ref> | |||
# Water poured by a monkey shouldn't be used but after the fact is acceptable. If one can get more water one should wash again without a bracha.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:12, Mishna Brurah 159:74</ref> | |||
===Canteen with Spigot=== | ===Canteen with Spigot=== | ||
# It is acceptable to wash from a canteen with a spigot that when opened water flows out of the hole and when closed can hold a reviyit of water.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:5 and Rama write that the canteen is fit for netilat yadayim even though it doesn't hold a reviyit of water without the spigot holding in the water since it is made specifically in this way to hold water with the spigot in place. Mishna Brurah 159:27 points out that if the spigot doesn't close completely and the canteen leaks it is unfit for netilat yadayim. Halacha Brurah 159:24 agrees.</ref> However, for each of the three times each hand is washed the spigot should be opened and closed.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:9, Halacha Brurah 159:24</ref> Only the initial spurt of water from opening the spigot is considered as though it comes from the force of a person and so it can be necessary to open and close the spigot several times to cover one's whole hand.<ref>Mishna Brurah 159:64, Halacha Brurah 159:24. See the Pitchei Teshuvot 159:16 quoting the Shulchan Hatahor 159:12 who argues that we shouldn't practically wash from a canteen with a spigot. See there for his reasons.</ref> | # It is acceptable to wash from a canteen with a spigot that when opened water flows out of the hole and when closed can hold a reviyit of water.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:5 and Rama write that the canteen is fit for netilat yadayim even though it doesn't hold a reviyit of water without the spigot holding in the water since it is made specifically in this way to hold water with the spigot in place. Mishna Brurah 159:27 points out that if the spigot doesn't close completely and the canteen leaks it is unfit for netilat yadayim. Halacha Brurah 159:24 agrees.</ref> However, for each of the three times each hand is washed the spigot should be opened and closed.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 159:9, Halacha Brurah 159:24</ref> Only the initial spurt of water from opening the spigot is considered as though it comes from the force of a person and so it can be necessary to open and close the spigot several times to cover one's whole hand.<ref>Mishna Brurah 159:64, Halacha Brurah 159:24. See the Pitchei Teshuvot 159:16 quoting the Shulchan Hatahor 159:12 who argues that we shouldn't practically wash from a canteen with a spigot. See there for his reasons.</ref> | ||
