Mi Yodeya Stack Exchange
Mi Yodeya Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [netilat-yadayim-washing]

Ritual hand washing. Required before or after certain actions, e.g before eating bread, after waking up, etc.

Ritual hand washing. Required before or after certain actions, e.g before eating bread, after waking up, etc.

Some other times that hands are washed (copied with permission from Wikipedia) are:

  • after visiting the bathroom, the ritual washing of one's hands as a symbol of both bodily cleanliness and of removing human impurity
  • after cutting one's hair or nails
  • after participating in a funeral procession, upon leaving a cemetery, or coming within four cubits of a corpse
211 questions
10
votes
2 answers

Forgot to wash but said hamotzi

If I inadvertantly forget to wash and said the bracha hamotzi, and have just broken the bread, but not eaten yet, what should I do next?
Eli
4
votes
1 answer

Do you need a separate instance of coach gavra for each hand?

For acts such as washing the hands in the morning, before eating bread or mayim acharonim, the use of coach gavra (human force) is required. Is it enough to utilize a single coach gavra for both hands or does each hand need its own coach gavra? An…
Ani Yodea
  • 13,125
  • 2
  • 28
  • 82
4
votes
1 answer

What part of the arm is considered "below the wrist"

What part of the arm is considered "below the wrist" in regards to Netilat Yadayim and is off limits to touch in order to avoid impure water?
Doesnt Matter
  • 77
  • 2
2
votes
2 answers

What is the source of rubbing hands together after washing before a meal and is it practiced today?

When discussing the mitzvah of washing hands before a meal Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch in Horeb says: [paragraph 464] Rub the hands one upon the other after you have poured water over both of them ... What is the source of this practice? Does anyone…
Jakub
  • 1,341
  • 7
  • 17
2
votes
0 answers

How many times per hand?

I've noticed that sometimes I see people washing Netilas Yadayim by washing once, twice, thrice, or four times per hand. Is there any Halachic reason for this, or is it just a Minhag?
M. Broder
  • 965
  • 7
  • 12
2
votes
2 answers

What is the reason for the order of washing hands?

Is there a description of and explanation for the order of washing hands (left-right vs right-left) before bread or on waking (and other times)?
Jakub
  • 1,341
  • 7
  • 17
1
vote
1 answer

How to position your hands during Netilas Yadayim

I heard that the Mishna Brurah says that when you wash Netilas Yadayim, you should hold you hands palm up, but when I do this, the other side of my hand doesn't get wet. So how do you position your hands when you wash Netilas Yadayim?
M. Broder
  • 965
  • 7
  • 12
1
vote
0 answers

If hands are in water through the night must they be washed in the morning?

If one sleeps through the night with hands in water must one wash hands for netilat yadayim in the morning?
rikitikitembo
  • 14,079
  • 3
  • 22
  • 80
0
votes
1 answer

Netilat yadayim in the presence of rotting food, splash back and berakha

Regarding morning teliah: Can one do morning (or any really) netilah in the presence of a bad smell and/or physical presence of rotting food (not the berakha)? If some drops of water splashes back from the basen onto the hands, are the hands still…
Rtangine
  • 23
  • 5
0
votes
0 answers

Do you have to wash your hands after putting on Tefillin

I heard that you have to wash your hands before Davening if you touch your hair or your upper arm. What if a person is putting on Tefillin. When I put on Tefillin, I almost always touch my upper arm and/or hair. Do I have to wash before Davening?
M. Broder
  • 965
  • 7
  • 12
0
votes
1 answer

How to wash for bread when there's water but no kli?

I've heard that if one has no Keli for netilat yadayim before eating bread, one can just be careful to not touch the bread, for example to use a napkin. Though is it acceptable to simply wash ones hand in a faucet wothout a kli?
Shababnik
  • 1,862
  • 2
  • 24