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#It is permissible to say [[Modeh Ani]] before washing hands. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:8, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 1:2, Shulchan Aruch HaRav 1:6 </ref>
#It is permissible to say [[Modeh Ani]] before washing hands. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:8, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 1:2, Shulchan Aruch HaRav 1:6 </ref>
#It is not permissible to learn or even think Torah before washing one's hands. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:8, Shulchan Aruch HaRav 1:6, Yalkut Yosef 4:27 </ref> However, if one is going to miss the chance to make a bracha or answer amen one should just rub his hands against someone to clean them and say the bracha or answer amen. If one slept in pajamas it is unnecessary to even rub them in order to clean them.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 4:27. A similar idea is found in Eliyah Rabba 227:6, Mishna Brurah 227:10.</ref>
#It is not permissible to learn Torah out load or to verbalize it before washing one's hands, <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:8, Shulchan Aruch HaRav 1:6, Yalkut Yosef 4:27 </ref> yet just thinking in Torah is allowed<ref>Piskei Teshuvos 4:32</ref>. However, if one is going to miss the chance to make a bracha or answer amen one should just rub his hands against someone to clean them and say the bracha or answer amen. If one slept in pajamas it is unnecessary to even rub them in order to clean them.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 4:27. A similar idea is found in Eliyah Rabba 227:6, Mishna Brurah 227:10.</ref>
#One should wash one's hands before walking four [[amot]]. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 2:1. See also Piskei Teshuvot 1:7 who writes that the minhag is that one should wash one's hands even before putting one's feet on the ground. </ref> However some are lenient in this regard. <ref>BeYitzchak Yikrah 1:2 comments that the tradition from the Gra that the Ruach Rah on hands was nullified with the death of Rabbi Avraham the Ger applies only to laws of the Zohar and not the Talmud Bavli and since this law is sourced in the Zohar, there is reason to be lenient. [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1525&st=&pgnum=5&hilite= Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi (Or Yitzchak 1:1)] writes that Rav Aharon Kotler wasn't careful about washing within 4 amot of waking up and goes on to defend such a position.</ref>
#One should wash one's hands before walking four [[amot]]. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 2:1. See also Piskei Teshuvot 1:7 who writes that the minhag is that one should wash one's hands even before putting one's feet on the ground. </ref> However some are lenient in this regard. <ref>BeYitzchak Yikrah 1:2 comments that the tradition from the Gra that the Ruach Rah on hands was nullified with the death of Rabbi Avraham the Ger applies only to laws of the Zohar and not the Talmud Bavli and since this law is sourced in the Zohar, there is reason to be lenient. [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1525&st=&pgnum=5&hilite= Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi (Or Yitzchak 1:1)] writes that Rav Aharon Kotler wasn't careful about washing within 4 amot of waking up and goes on to defend such a position.</ref>
#If the water is further than 4 [[Amot]] away some say that it is better to walk less than 4 [[amot]] at a time while others say it is better to go there quickly if it is still in the same house. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:2 </ref>
#If the water is further than 4 [[Amot]] away some say that it is better to walk less than 4 [[amot]] at a time while others say it is better to go there quickly if it is still in the same house. <ref>Mishna Brurah 1:2 </ref>
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