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What should one do if one washes, with the intention to make ha'motzi on bread, makes the bracha al netilat yadayim and is then interrupted and is no longer able to eat, and/or no longer wants to eat. Is the bracha al netilat yadayim a bracha levatalah?

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    Why would you think it is? Or isn't? Whatever it is you are thinking, please [edit] it in. Include as well any research or evidence you have about this to help others. – Double AA Aug 10 '16 at 03:25
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    related http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/52734/759 – Double AA Aug 10 '16 at 03:52
  • https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%9F_%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9A_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%97_%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%98_%D7%99%D7%92 biur halacha implies this is not a problem – Double AA Feb 01 '22 at 14:21

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No. The Ritva in Chullin (106b) rules such because at the time that you washed you had in mind to eat. R' Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer YD 1:21) also rules this way.

This site also brings down such a Halacha, but I'm not sure what their source is.

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