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==Learning or Thinking Torah in Unclean Areas== | ==Learning or Thinking Torah in Unclean Areas== | ||
===In a Bathroom | ===In a Bathroom, Shower, Bathhouse=== | ||
#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 bathrooms.<ref>Igrot Moshe EH 1:114</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 bathrooms.<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> | #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. | ||
*Is learning in the middle room permitted if no one unclothed there? Bet Yosef 45:2 implies it is permitted and Bach 84:1 says forbidden. The Mishna Brurah 84:3 cites the dispute between the Bach and Bet Yosef. Perisha 45:2, Taz 84:2 (as understood by Mishna Brurah 84:3), Shulchan Aruch Harav 84:1, and Magen Giborim S”G 84:2 are strict. Magen Avraham 45:2, Eliya Rabba 84:1, Birkei Yosef 85:10, Maharsham in Daat Torah 84:1, and Bet Yehuda OC 10 are lenient. Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 232-3 is lenient. He writes that it seems to be a dispute between Rashi who is lenient and the Meiri.</ref> | *Is learning in the middle room permitted if no one unclothed there? Bet Yosef 45:2 implies it is permitted and Bach 84:1 says forbidden. The Mishna Brurah 84:3 cites the dispute between the Bach and Bet Yosef. Perisha 45:2, Taz 84:2 (as understood by Mishna Brurah 84:3), Shulchan Aruch Harav 84:1, and Magen Giborim S”G 84:2 are strict. Magen Avraham 45:2, Eliya Rabba 84:1, Birkei Yosef 85:10, Maharsham in Daat Torah 84:1, and Bet Yehuda OC 10 are lenient. Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 232-3 is lenient. He writes that it seems to be a dispute between Rashi who is lenient and the Meiri.</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to hear a Torah lecture or Jewish song while in a shower if it isn't in the same room as a toilet. If it is in the same room as a toilet it is forbidden.<ref>[http://halachayomit.co.il/en/default.aspx?HalachaID=1751] based on Yabia Omer OC 5:11</ref> | |||
===In Front of Feces or Urine=== | ===In Front of Feces or Urine=== | ||
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#If urine was absorbed into the ground or clothing, if there still is a moisture to the urine, one may not learn next to it unless it was diluted with a [[Reviyit]] of water.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5:2</ref> | #If urine was absorbed into the ground or clothing, if there still is a moisture to the urine, one may not learn next to it unless it was diluted with a [[Reviyit]] of water.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5:2</ref> | ||
#If there is feces on one's body, one may not involve oneself in Divrei [[Kedusha]] even if it is covered.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5:3</ref> | #If there is feces on one's body, one may not involve oneself in Divrei [[Kedusha]] even if it is covered.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5:3</ref> | ||
#If a baby soiled a diaper but they are still wearing it if you don't smell it the feces are considered covered and | #If a baby soiled a diaper but they are still wearing it if you don't smell it the feces are considered covered and some permit to learn or make brachot nearby,<ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecture.cfm/891935/rabbi-hershel-schachter/berachos-56-25ab-modern-bathrooms-tzoah-libo-roeh-es-haervah-glass-akum-issur-chal-al-issur/ Rav Hershel Schachter (Brachot Shiur 56 around min 85)]</ref> while others are strict and require you to move four [[amot]] away from the smell.<ref>Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen (page 25). Shevet HaLevi 9:200:2 says that this relates to the discussion of how far one must distance themselves from a bad odor that is covered. See M.B. 79 introduction point 8 where he discusses an argument concerning if one must distance themselves four amot from where the bad odor ends or is moving to a place that it doesn't smell enough. This is a doubt in the Pri Megadim 79.</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to daven in front of a urine catheter though the tube through which the urine goes through should be covered and preferably the bag of urine should be covered as well.< | ##All agree that one does not have to check a diaper prior to reciting a bracha or learning, but if one does smell an odor, it would be prohibited.<ref>Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen (page 25). Shevet HaLevi 9:200:2</ref> | ||
#It is permitted to daven in front of a urine catheter though the tube through which the urine goes through should be covered and preferably the bag of urine should be covered as well.<ref>https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=4915</ref> | |||
====In Another Room==== | ====In Another Room==== | ||
