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# Common exapmles of Chatzitza include bandaids, jewelery,and dirt. Dirt under one's fingernails also constitute a chatzitza and should be cleaned or removed before washing. <Ref> ibid. </ref> | # Common exapmles of Chatzitza include bandaids, jewelery,and dirt. Dirt under one's fingernails also constitute a chatzitza and should be cleaned or removed before washing. <Ref> ibid. </ref> | ||
==Bracha== | ==Bracha== | ||
# Although most Birkot HaMitzvot must be recited before the performance of the Mitzvah <Ref> Pesachim 119b</ref>, the common practice - since the era of the Rishonim - has been to recite the bracha for Netillat Yadayim after washing. <Ref>Tosafot Peaschim 7b s.v. Al HaTevillah</ref> However, many early poskim questioned the validity of this minhag. <Ref>See Tur (O.C. 158), Bet Yosef ibid.</ref> Shulchan Aruch <Ref>O.C. 158:11</ref> rules that one should recite the bracha before washing, but acknowledges that the custom is not so. Rema <Ref> | # Although most Birkot HaMitzvot must be recited before the performance of the Mitzvah <Ref> Pesachim 119b</ref>, the common practice - since the era of the Rishonim - has been to recite the bracha for Netillat Yadayim after washing. <Ref>Tosafot Peaschim 7b s.v. Al HaTevillah</ref> However, many early poskim questioned the validity of this minhag. <Ref>See Tur (O.C. 158), Bet Yosef ibid.</ref> Shulchan Aruch <Ref>O.C. 158:11</ref> rules that one should recite the bracha before washing, but acknowledges that the custom is not so. Rema <Ref>O.C. 158:11</ref> says that the bracha can be recited before drying the hands, which is also part of the Mitzvah. Beiur Halacha <Ref>O.C. 158:11 s.v. Mevarech Kodem</ref> says that it makes sense that the halacha is like the Bet Yosef / Shulchan Aruch, and therefore one should not protest against those who wish to recite the bracha first. Some contemporary poskim recommend that one should therefore recite the bracha before washing. <Ref>Halacha Berurah (O.C. 158:11) writes that if one's hands are clean, and others are not watching, he should recite the bracha first. Rabbi Hershel Schachter recites the bracha prior to washing his hands ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799252/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Speaking_Between_Netilas_Yadayim_and_the_Beracha# Ten Minute Halacha - Speaking Between Netilas Yadayim and the Beracha] 6:35, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQ0nNsuWg_RLWZ1ZTJfblFtUUk/edit?usp=sharing HalachaDoc LG-A33].</ref> | ||
# For the text of the bracha, see the [[Text of Brachot#Netilat Yadayim]] page. | # For the text of the bracha, see the [[Text of Brachot#Netilat Yadayim]] page. | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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