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# Women are equally obligated to wash netilat yadayim. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 4:20. He also points out that in fact, women may have a greater obligation because they prepare the food and feed the children and therefore have more control over the purity of their houses. </ref> | # Women are equally obligated to wash netilat yadayim. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 4:20. He also points out that in fact, women may have a greater obligation because they prepare the food and feed the children and therefore have more control over the purity of their houses. </ref> | ||
# There is a difference of opinions when a child should be taught to wash his hands in the morning. Some say that a child of 5 or 6 should be taught, while others say that once the child is able to eat on his own should taught. <ref> | |||
*Shulchan Aruch Harav, | *Shulchan Aruch Harav 4:2, Eishel Avraham OC 4, and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Halichot Shlomo 20:25 say that the obligation for children to wash begins at the age of chinuch for other mitzvot which is approximately 5 or 6. | ||
*Mishna Berura says the obligation begins at the time when the child begins to eat on his own. | *Mishna Berura 4:10 (based on Pri Megadim 7) says the obligation begins at the time when the child begins to eat on his own. | ||
*Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky says that it begins when a child is old enough to say amen to a beracha or recite a pasuk in torah. | *Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky in Emet LeYacov 4:10 says that it begins when a child is old enough to say amen to a beracha or recite a pasuk in torah. | ||
*The Kaf Hachayim and Ben Ish Chai say that even a newborn's hands should be washed by his parents. | *The Kaf Hachayim 4:23 and Ben Ish Chai (Toldot #10) say that even a newborn's hands should be washed by his parents. See further [http://torah.org/advanced/weekly-halacha/5766/lechlecha.html Rabbi Neustadt at torah.org]</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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