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==Learning or Thinking Torah in Unclean Areas== | ==Learning or Thinking Torah in Unclean Areas== | ||
===In a Bathroom or Bathroom=== | ===In a Bathroom or Bathroom=== | ||
# It is forbidden to learn Torah or recite Brachot in a bathroom.<ref>Gemara Brachot 26a, Shulchan Aruch 83:4</ref> | # It is forbidden to learn Torah or recite Brachot in a bathroom.<ref>Gemara Brachot 26a, Shulchan Aruch 83:4</ref> The poskim say that this is also true with modern bathroom.<ref>Igrot Moshe EH 1:114</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to recite a bracha outside a bathroom even if the door is open.<ref>Igrot Moshe EH 1:114</ref> | |||
# One may speak Hebrew in the bathroom, but it is a pious practice not to. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 85:2, Mishna Brurah 85:9</ref> | # One may speak Hebrew in the bathroom, but it is a pious practice not to. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 85:2, Mishna Brurah 85:9</ref> | ||
# It is forbidden to learn or think Torah in a bathhouse. Even in the changing room next to the bathing room one may not learn Torah but one may think Torah. If there's no one unclothed in the changing room at the time there is a dispute if one may recite brachot there.<ref>In the days of chazal there were three chambers of a bathhouse; the outermost room was used for rinsing and sweating, the middle one for changing and lounging, and the inner one for bathing. The gemara Shabbat 10a explains that it is forbidden to learn Torah in either the middle or inner rooms. That is codified in Shulchan Aruch 84:1. Rama adds that thinking Torah is permitted in the middle room and not the inner one. | # It is forbidden to learn or think Torah in a bathhouse. Even in the changing room next to the bathing room one may not learn Torah but one may think Torah. If there's no one unclothed in the changing room at the time there is a dispute if one may recite brachot there.<ref>In the days of chazal there were three chambers of a bathhouse; the outermost room was used for rinsing and sweating, the middle one for changing and lounging, and the inner one for bathing. The gemara Shabbat 10a explains that it is forbidden to learn Torah in either the middle or inner rooms. That is codified in Shulchan Aruch 84:1. Rama adds that thinking Torah is permitted in the middle room and not the inner one. | ||
