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==The Beracha for Washing Before eating Bread== | ==The Beracha for Washing Before eating Bread== | ||
# The Beracha is "Baruch Ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam Asher Kidshanu B'Mitzvotav V'Tzivanu Al Netilat Yadayim" | # The Beracha is "Baruch Ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam Asher Kidshanu B'Mitzvotav V'Tzivanu Al Netilat Yadayim" | ||
==Obligation== | |||
# Even one whose hands aren't necessarily dirty or tamei, has to wash his hands before a meal. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Dinei Netilat Yadayim, Birkat Hamazon, Brachot, Mincha and Arvit page 13 Siman 158:2. </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> | |||
==Minimum amount of bread to obligate Netilat Yadayim== | ==Minimum amount of bread to obligate Netilat Yadayim== | ||
# If one is going to eat more than a Kebaytzah of bread, one must wash Netilat Yadayim with a Bracha. <ref>S"A 158:2 writes that some say if one eats less than a Kebaytzah of bread one should wash without a bracha. Mishna Brurah 158:9 writes that if one eats the size of a Kebaytzah without the shell it is certainly sufficient to make the bracha of Netilat Yadayim.</ref> | # If one is going to eat more than a Kebaytzah of bread, one must wash Netilat Yadayim with a Bracha. <ref>S"A 158:2 writes that some say if one eats less than a Kebaytzah of bread one should wash without a bracha. Mishna Brurah 158:9 writes that if one eats the size of a Kebaytzah without the shell it is certainly sufficient to make the bracha of Netilat Yadayim.</ref> | ||
