Waking up in the Middle of the Night: Difference between revisions

# If one wakes up in the middle of the night and does not plan on going back to sleep, according to Sephardim, one should wash [[Netilat Yadayim]] with a bracha and say [[Brachot HaTorah]]. <ref> Or Letzion (vol 2 chap 1 note 2) writes that if one is not going back to sleep one should make the [[Netilat Yadayim]] with a Bracha right away. </ref> according to Ashkenazim, if after having gone to the bathroom one will still not be ready for [[davening]] and will have to go to the bathroom another time before [[davening]] (as is common when one wakes up a long time before [[davening]]), one should upon waking wash without a Bracha, after having gone to the bathroom the first time wash again without a bracha, and after having gone to the bathroom a second time and assuming one is then ready for [[davening]] wash with the Bracha of Al [[Netilat Yadayim]]. Some say that one should wash the first times without a cup. <ref>

* If one is not going to be ready for [[davening]] after having gone to the bathroom the first time, the Beiur Halacha (4:1 s.v. Afliu) presents two opinions about when it is preferable to wash one's hands with the Bracha of Al [[Netilat Yadayim]]. The Chaye Adam holds that it's preferable upon [[waking up]] to wash without a Bracha and when one is ready for [[davening]] to wash again with the bracha, while the Shaarei [[Teshuva]] holds that one should wash with the Bracha after going to the bathroom even if one isn't totally ready for [[davening]]. The Beiur Halacha rules like the Chaye Adam that upon [[waking up]] one should wash without a Bracha and when one is ready for [[davening]] to wash again with the bracha.  

* Rav Shlomo Zalman is quoted in Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefilla]] 2:23, pg 23) who rules like the Chaye Adam and states when one is washing one's hands after having gone to the bathroom in the morning if one knows that one will need to go to the bathroom again before [[davening]] the first time one should wash without a Bracha and after going to the bathroom the second time when one is ready for [[davening]] one should wash with the Bracha.  

==One plans to go back to sleep==