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It is a rabbinic mitzvah to wash one's hands before a bread meal. This mitzvah was enacted as a way of maintaining the practices of trumah, holy food given to the kohanim. Before eating bread, the rabbis instituted washing one's hands just like a kohen would do whenever he would eat trumah so that one's hands that regularly become impure don't impurify the trumah. Additionally, netilat yadayim is a practice of holiness and cleanliness.<ref>Mishna Brurah 158:1</ref> | |||
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#Even one whose hands aren't necessarily dirty or impure (tamei) has to wash his hands before a meal.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 158:1, Yalkut Yosef 158:2. </ref> | |||
#Even one whose hands aren't necessarily dirty or impure (tamei) has to wash his hands before a meal. <ref>Yalkut Yosef | #Women are also obligated in [[netilat yadayim]].<ref>Yalkut Yosef Dinei [[Netilat Yadayim]], Birkat Hamazon, [[Brachot]], [[Mincha]] and [[Arvit]] page 13, Siman 158:3, Ben Ish Chai Parashat Shemini:2, Kaf Hachayim 158:74 </ref> | ||
#Women are also obligated in [[netilat yadayim]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef Dinei [[Netilat Yadayim]], Birkat Hamazon, [[Brachot]], [[Mincha]] and [[Arvit]] page 13, Siman 158:3, Ben Ish Chai Parashat Shemini:2, Kaf Hachayim 158:74 </ref> | |||
#One should try to train his children to wash [[netilat yadayim]] for a meal. <ref>Yalkut Yosef Dinei [[Netilat Yadayim]], Birkat Hamazon, [[Brachot]], [[Mincha]] and [[Arvit]] page 13-14 based on the Yerushalmi in Megilla 2:5 that [[chinuch]] of children applies to rabbinic laws. </ref> | #One should try to train his children to wash [[netilat yadayim]] for a meal. <ref>Yalkut Yosef Dinei [[Netilat Yadayim]], Birkat Hamazon, [[Brachot]], [[Mincha]] and [[Arvit]] page 13-14 based on the Yerushalmi in Megilla 2:5 that [[chinuch]] of children applies to rabbinic laws. </ref> | ||
#One should have intention that the netilat yadayim is purifying one's hands for the meal.<ref>The Rashba Torat Habayit 6:2 writes that from the Gemara Chullin 106b it is implied that a person needs intention for netilat yadayim for a meal to be effective. He explains that even though it is considered preparing for dealing with something non-holy, chullin, which wouldn't require intention, since netilat yadayim is established based on preparing for Trumah intention is necessary. Shulchan Aruch OC 159:13 agrees.</ref> After the fact if one doesn't have water to wash again one can be lenient.<ref>Mishna Brurah 159:75</ref> | #One should have intention that the netilat yadayim is purifying one's hands for the meal.<ref>The Rashba Torat Habayit 6:2 writes that from the Gemara Chullin 106b it is implied that a person needs intention for netilat yadayim for a meal to be effective. He explains that even though it is considered preparing for dealing with something non-holy, chullin, which wouldn't require intention, since netilat yadayim is established based on preparing for Trumah intention is necessary. Shulchan Aruch OC 159:13 agrees.</ref> After the fact if one doesn't have water to wash again one can be lenient.<ref>Mishna Brurah 159:75</ref> | ||
