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# The washing of one’s hands after a bread meal before Birkat Hamazon is called Mayim Achronim. The Gemara finds support for this law from the pasuk “VeHayiteem Kedoshim” and says it prevents Sedomite salt from getting into one’s eyes and blinding oneself. <Ref> Brachot 53b, Chulin 105a-b </ref> | # The washing of one’s hands after a bread meal before Birkat Hamazon is called Mayim Achronim. The Gemara finds support for this law from the pasuk “VeHayiteem Kedoshim” and says it prevents Sedomite salt from getting into one’s eyes and blinding oneself. <Ref> Brachot 53b, Chulin 105a-b </ref> | ||
# Sephardic custom is based on many Rishonim who hold Mayim Achronim is an obligation nowadays either because there is a concern of Sedomite salt even in our times, there’s an obligation of being Kadosh, or it’s to have clean hands for Birkat HaMazon, (yet the obligation to wash applies even if one has clean hands). <Ref> Rambam(Brachot 6:3), Rabbeinu Yonah(Brachot 40b), Rif(Chulin 37b) hold that it applies because of danger. Ravad(Brachot 6:2), Rashba(Chulin 105ua), and Rashbetz(Brachot ch. 8) seems to hold that the purpose is to have clean hands for Birkat HaMazon. S"A 181:1 rules (even nowadays) it's an obligation to do Mayim Achronim. </ref> | # Sephardic custom is based on many Rishonim who hold Mayim Achronim is an obligation nowadays either because there is a concern of Sedomite salt even in our times, there’s an obligation of being Kadosh, or it’s to have clean hands for Birkat HaMazon, (yet the obligation to wash applies even if one has clean hands). <Ref> Rambam(Brachot 6:3), Rabbeinu Yonah(Brachot 40b), Rif(Chulin 37b) hold that it applies because of danger. Ravad(Brachot 6:2), Rashba(Chulin 105ua), and Rashbetz(Brachot ch. 8) seems to hold that the purpose is to have clean hands for Birkat HaMazon. S"A 181:1 rules (even nowadays) it's an obligation to do Mayim Achronim. </ref> | ||
# The Minhag Ashkenazim is like the Rishonim who say there is no obligation in our times because there’s no concern of | # The Minhag Ashkenazim is like the Rishonim who say there is no obligation in our times because there’s no concern of Sedomite salt. <Ref> Tosfot (Brahcot 53b,Chulin 105a, Eiruvin 17b), Rama in Darkei Moshe 181:1, Levush 181:9 that so is Minhag Ashkenaz. Gra 181:12, Aruch HaShulchan 181:5, Mishna Brurah 181:22 hold it’s preferable for Ashkenazim to wash Mayim Achronim. </ref> | ||
==Who is obligated?== | ==Who is obligated?== | ||
