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| ==When to Recite the Bracha== | | ==When to Recite the Bracha== |
| # The minhag is to make the bracha of Al Netilat Yadiyim between washing and drying one’s hands. <Ref> S”A 158:11 writes that the bracha of [[Netilat Yadayim]] is like most other [[brachot]] and have to be made prior to completing the mitzvah. Therefore concludes S”A the practice is to rub one’s hands to clean them (so one can make the bracha), then make the bracha prior to washing. However, Mishna Brurah 158:41 writes that the minhag of the world is to make the bracha after washing but before drying like the Rama writes is permissible. </ref> | | # One should recite the bracha immediately after washing one's hands prior to drying them.<ref>Mishna Brurah 6:2 writes that one should recite the bracha prior to drying one's hands, however, some are strict to recite the bracha only after drying them. The Ben Ish Chai (Toldot no. 5) and Kaf HaChaim 4:8 say that this is also the Sephardi minhag.</ref> |
| # Some Sephardim follow the Shulchan Aruch, who says that as long as one's hands are clean one should make the bracha BEFORE washing one's hands. <Ref> As quoted in the previous source, S”A 158:11 writes that the bracha of [[Netilat Yadayim]] is like most other [[brachot]] and have to be made prior to completing the mitzvah, therefore one should rub one’s hands to clean them (in order to be able to make the bracha), then make the bracha prior to washing. See the [[Talk:Netilat_Yadayim_upon_Waking_Up|Discussion page]] for a listing of where this is the minhag. </ref>
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| # If one forgot to make the bracha of Al [[Netilat Yadayim]] before drying one’s hands, according to Ashekazim one is still permitted to make a bracha of [[Netilat Yadayim]] until one makes [[Hamotzi]]. Sephardim hold that once one’s hands are totally dry one may not make the bracha. <Ref> Rama 158:11 writes that if one forgot to make a bracha before drying one’s hand one can make the bracha after drying. Mishna Brurah 158:44 supports the Rama by saying that [[Netilat Yadayim]] is different than other [[brachot]] and may be made after the mitzvah is completed. Mishna Brurah writes that even though the Taz forbids making the bracha after having dryed one's hands, since most Achronim hold like the Rama one may act according to the Rama, one should however be careful to avoid such a situation. Sephardim should note that Ben Ish Chai (Shemini Halacha 7) and Chacham Ovadia Yosef in Halichot Olam (v. 1, p. 317) rule, once you have dryed your hands you can no longer make the bracha. </ref>
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| # Some have the custom to wait until going to shul to make the bracha of netilat yadayim. Sephardim do not have this minhag. In any case, one should not make the bracha twice, once upon both waking up and once going to shul. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 6:2 </ref> | | # Some have the custom to wait until going to shul to make the bracha of netilat yadayim. Sephardim do not have this minhag. In any case, one should not make the bracha twice, once upon both waking up and once going to shul. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 6:2 </ref> |
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