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Washing Hands for Bread – Background to the Takanah and its Halachic implications
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Shiur by Rabbi Nachum Scheiner at Beis Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY
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we're holding
now the second part of
theara though more or
less if not all most of tar is not
relevant we even touched upon it last
week's
she
however these
that's
yes that is connected
to that's the
Mitzvah before eating before eating
bread is
a right
here to be able to properly go through
it and understand I would like to back
up and speak a bit about another part of
this mitzah
also
the that's not the Mitzvah of being
before eat
sud but the Mitzvah to wash your hands
in the morning we make a every
morning clearly it's a Mitzvah we make
the
is the says
when a person washes his hand the goes
through all the different BR that a
person makes in the morning and the says
when you wash your hands in the morning
you
make the beginning
of to be to wash your
hands what's the reason for this
Mitzvah when I say this Mitzvah I mean
this part of the Mitzvah the to wash
your hands in the morning the
rush brings the
rush that because when a person is
sleeping a person's hands move all over
the place and he
touches
places places that he would that are not
that are not clean therefore the said
that a person in the morning when he
gets up before daving and before
saying your
hands the says that this is only for
daving and for sh and not for
bras just to understand clearly we're
talking about the Mitzvah of the morning
we make the this is something not
connected at all to what we're all very
familiar with that by night is a Ru and
you're supposed to wash your hands to
take away the
ru that has its own set of
denim one of Ru one case of R when you
wake up in the morning but if you look
in simal there's a whole sea of many
different cases that you wash your hands
for example a person goes into the
bathroom maybe it's different but a
person goes into a bathroom the T in the
bathroom you have to wash your hands so
you don't
make so we're talking about in the
morning a person wakes up he has to wash
his hands before davening before daving
and you make it's only before ding not
before
bras to bring out this idea that a
person has to wash his hands before ding
if somebody woke up at 6:00
a.m. and of course he washed his hands
because he has a r then he's only ding
at 9:00 shabas morning he got up at 5
his sh DS at 9:30 he learns whatever he
does so the
is you have to wash your hands
again why just like we mention when a
person's sleeping his hands are all over
the place so too a person got up at 5:30
in the morning and it's a few hours
later that he's going to D and you have
to wash your hands again
again of course if he remembers exactly
where his hands were the whole time he
doesn't have to but if he's not sure
what that's usually the case we don't
remember exactly where our hands went
scratched touched you need to wash your
hands
again however this time when you wash
your hands it's without AA Why without
AA because by night when a person's
asleep it's V that he touch
places is places that are not clean that
he has to wash his hands however in the
morning when he's up up until ding a few
hours later it's not V it's possible
that he touch places that are not clean
therefore he should wash his hands but
it's a suffix so therefore you don't
make the BR
that's a very good question what if he
knows so I I let's answer this question
very momentarily and you'll see in the
next 2 3 minutes it's going to answer
the
question
this as well
also you should have to wash your hands
and the truth is it's
brought though maybe many for whatever
reason don't do it
but says clearly a person should wash
his hands
like what you just mentioned very good
what's if a person knows before that he
for sure
touch should he make a really before
before also should you make a br the r
says you make a
and reason you
make before before before also yes you
should make a br but hold
on so we'll get to a cop in a minute
also we'll see what what the concept of
cop is so far so far if the reason is is
to clean your hands you really shouldn't
need a cup because it's just that you
touch places that are dirty so you don't
need a cup but let's we'll get to a cup
soon also very
good come
you
you however these are another reason
there's another reason to wash in in
this washing in the morning that we
there's another reason in the the first
reason was
the the rash I mean I'm sorry the RBA
says the r says the reason
is to when a person a goes into the he's
a Mitzvah to wash his hands because he's
a burier because he y to go into the B
before so here also before before
different reason not because you touched
places that are not clean just because
you're going to do
the both of the reasons are focusing
before ding however the second reason is
not because you touched places that are
not clean it's just because a CO that
goes into the base of mdash that had a
there was a din for him to wash from the
K it wasn't relevant even if the C was
100% T he was a d to wash his hands
therefore therefore says the rashba you
wash in the morning you're a it's you
wash your hands now really what's
Whata they didn't copy exactly like the
a washed his feet also we don't wash our
feet we only wash our
hands
but also the p is that it's only in the
morning it's only in the morning not
so being that
it's brought up before what's about a
like you mentioned if a person
touches
again it's not relevant to that you wash
in the morning like the wash with a so
if a person gets up 5:30 in the morning
and he diin at 8:00 I in between he may
have
touched it doesn't make a difference the
reason why he washes is like a c that
washes
before he goes into the so very clear we
have two reasons over here either
because he
touched so then it should be relevant to
wash again if use a big
break as well if you only wash
once have
to correct very good very good very
good agrees that a person that touches M
has to wash good but that's not included
in this mid
and of course you don't make a so that's
why a person should wash if he touches
or even not sure washes again before and
as well also you wash because
maybe but for the second reason you
don't so you wash but without
a you're putting on your
phone I've seen a lot of people that
scratching head that wouldn't be enough
so yeah there are people that wash their
hands when they put on after they put on
the sh they wash their hands before they
say before they finish up they do wash
their hands and there are people that
careful when they put on not to scratch
the
Andi I want to just say that there's a
lot more to speak in this part this is
really not so much the focus of the she
but I just want to bring out to be able
to go to the other part of before sud
but these many
and I'm just bringing out the poter the
Mitzvah and the reasons of the Mitzvah
but you're right there's a lot lot more
and of course what I didn't even go into
is about many you go to the bathroom
also that's on and on and
on you going to T between the two
reasons T and from here we'll go on to
the other
says that if somebody sleeps by night
with
gloves the reason of the rash you don't
have to you don't it's not neate the you
didn't
tou you can't you can wash you
definitely can't make
a because if your hands are uncovered
it's that you touch but if it's in
gloves you didn't
touch the Mitzvah is why you washed
hands cing with the K so your hands can
be covered from today till tomorrow it's
nothing to do with you wash and with
a and another is what you mentioned
before about a CLE
another brings right in the beginning of
you've caught an olive a
CLE the reason of the rash
that you don't need a
CLE however the reason of
the so just like by the it was with with
a CLE so too one should wash his hands
with a CLE SOA we go with both reasons
and of course we M whenever applicable
we don't make a br and of course we wash
with a
clean now let's go into the let's call
it the other part of
the which of course we also very well
aware of is when we wash
before tonight by
sud you wash your hands and it's a
Mitzvah one of the
mitz so the m the m for this Mitzvah
obviously it's brought right here in
the but let's back
up for the Mitzvah is actually by
truma it's really even a step before
Wason sh or B sh extended it into truma
what is it so
says
says truma 18 TS
for TR and one of them is one of them
what does mean Rashi explains that
before you eat or even touch trumo you
have to wash the hands but that if a
person touches truma and he didn't wash
his hands before it passes the truma
it's not it's
not before this of sh and H if a person
tosses truma doesn't become why would it
become P but it becomes
P why did they make this Tak why was it
relevant that if they you touch TR
why so the says
later
says yeah a person's hands are all over
the
place we're already familiar with this
concept we just heard this from the rush
the Mitzvah in the morning but the
what does that mean we know it means
that his hands are all over the place
okay and therefore
what so why should that be relevant that
a person should have to wash his hands
before touching
truma so Rashi
says just like we saw the rush that a
person touches unclean
places says Rashi it's a gai for Trum
disrespectful to touch the
truma when a person's hands are not
clean when you touch the food when it's
not clean the food becomes
M it becomes disgusting to a person to
eat the
food so kazal didn't want that a person
should touch the truma first of all
being disrespectful to the truma second
of all when you touch it you're not
going to want to eat the Trum anymore
not in every case but in some of the
cases hands are a little bit dirty
therefore they made a across the board
that before you touch truma you have to
wash your
hands and if you don't wash your
hands how
they you have to wash your hands and if
you don't wash your hands you passle the
truma that's reason that's explanation
number one in the Tak why you have to
wash your hands before truma that's a
rash
explains there's another rash
brings which is it's brought in the and
the ra the reason why you have to wash
your hands before truma is because we're
afraid that you're
T you Tomy and if you Tomy and you touch
the truma you truma that's why you have
to wash your
hands rash is bothered with this reason
first of all if that one second why that
a person's like
the the reason has to fit into the has
to go with the words of the
gar we're afraid that a person
touched so that's reason number two why
you have to wash your hands but rashi's
bothered first of all if you're
concerned that the person's hands are
all over the
place maybe he touched a person that's
and furthermore says Rashi if a person's
T doesn't help just to wash your hands
you have to go to the Mikvah so what
does it help to wash your hands good
that's the cases that Rashi has but
that's the two again we have two reasons
why a person has to wash his hands by
truma reason number one
is are dirty we don't want you to make
the food uh M and reason number two is
not the food
that's truma
now from truma we extended it to the
says by
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us why why what's the reason
why it's an extension it's an extension
to the
truma this that we're going to wash
tonight Friday night before before bread
the reason for the natila is because of
true explains very clearly and very
nicely and he breaks it down a little
bit the M brings of it as
well the concept is that because by
truma because by truma wanted that you
should wash your hands the said we want
you to be comfortable and used to you
should wash even
byul not only by truma they extended it
to as
well furthermore on top of
this they
said truma in other words really what
wanted
thez
Trum was truma but they wanted you
should be so comfortable about it so
they
said when you wash for bread to
truma really they don't need you to wash
by Trum by but it's
truma
furthermore maybe only the should do it
by Trum
furthermore
even Trum and wait a second we're not
done
yet and what's about
B we don't engage in truma we're we
don't e
Trum So then
today we should have to wash before
bread
before tonight why we
washing truma but there's no truma today
the ter
is come right now and we're going to be
we're going to be right back into
business with
eating
so we wash
before before we eat
bread but
it's and then another
today so tonight
before the when you're going to
wash of course it's 100% a mitvah we
make the BR but if you think for a
minute the reason we're washing our
hands
is when we have
a so we just said now that we wash our
hands for bread
truma there are other trumans also
besides bread so bread is is do the T
says do mean do we talk a
wash these other these other
pis there some sheas that say all pis
but even the T
says which says let's say minimum is
only wine and oil not even the olives
and the grapes we spoke about this over
here in the
K but for sure for sure wine and oil
is undisputable the tah says that so
when we drink wine we should also have
to wash our hands if the reason why we
wash by by
Bread Trum by Bread mean a dog we should
have to do the same Thing by wine and by
oil so there are two answers to this the
says one
terets that wine and oil we don't touch
so yes we don't touch it's of course
it's a to truma but the whole idea by
truma because you touch it for whatever
the reason is but you touch it so here
you don't touch it you not we don't
touch wine and we don't touch oil you
drink it you don't touch it so therefore
you don't have have to wash your
hands brings a different reason and he
says by something that Ro truma comes
from it which is
interesting I understand do or something
that the whole world lives off dog and
of bread of
grains there's enormous amount of truma
coming from from oil from wine but
that's says that's why it's only by
Bread
because that's
where furthermore even in bread
itself cake also comes so why don't you
have to wash your hands by Cake also for
the same truma so this also this says is
that it's not
a I don't know maybe maybe different but
they say it's not
a to use the for cake for as bread
however it's important to note like this
even though it's very
clear that when we're going to wash
tonight or anytime we
wash before
it's it comes out of the out of truma
it's important to note that these
differences between the natila
of truma and the natila of Hulan and and
before the two of Thea let's back up I
just want to point out that he's really
even
a before the natila truma you now to
touch truma without washing your
hands bread you allow to touch bread
without washing your hands the is only
if you eat so this is already one of
course the our washing our hands before
bread comes from truma but already a
difference not before the even in the
itself truma you're not to touch truma
without washing your
hands you only not allow to eat your
bread tonight without washing your
hands that was already I don't know I
don't know you want to know if even then
by will you now let a touch or it's only
into I don't know it would be
interesting to say that they changed it
now we're going to see more
we soon see why it's another is how much
you have to wash your hands for
Trum brings that when a person washes
his hands for for truma you have to wash
your hands the full hand Medina up the
whole
hand when you wash your hands
brings
in if you have to wash your full hands
or maybe only to the knuckles like what
we do you
know
says
but one has to wash his full
hand and
another truma and of when we wash for
bread is if a
could wash your hands brings
in the washers be the person washing the
hands before eating touching truma
before bread by could wash your hands
also you shouldn't touch the
bread yeah L is like this you want to
know if someone can't wash his hands and
is that you don't touch the bread very
good very good it's not possible to go
into all the you bring up very good
about it there so many
in before we spoke about also there's
also a of which we do Le if you touch
pis that are wet so but this is your
right even even in if a person can't
wash his hand then you you don't touch
it
Andi another point to bring out the
difference between and truma when I
say you shouldn't get
thr us which we wash whenever we before
bread if somebody touched
the which means he's a middle eating
middle the suda and then he scratched
his his head so the ra the end of
says you get up you wash your hands
again and you and you
make however the mar argues the mar says
you don't you don't you
don't we stop right here we don't you
wash your hands you don't make but the
ra says you
make argues you do not
what's the what's this sh what's the
should you make or not so he says it's
totally in the reasons that we just
mentioned before why a person should
wash his hands if the reason like we saw
from the rush is because M right we said
by so if that's the case it's very nice
you wash your hands right before you
started eating and you made a but now
you touched you have to wash again with
the that's the rush however the
other they all say that the reason is
not the reason
is if the reason is
for so you washed your hands before the
sud nothing changed with this that you
after the after you
TCH nothing changed right nothing
changed so M you don't have to wash your
hands again so L says like this
that pasin that you wash with the is
because is pasing like the
rush however and this is important what
I want to bring out
another that the by is different than by
truma what did we just
say what's the reason we wash by
Trum
long says it's very nice clear what the
reason why we wash the Hands by truma if
you have and the sud do ought do that if
you should have to
make but I found in the that bring both
that bring the
reason that the reason is
M the ra says Tom and the ra also says
that in middle of the sud you
wash says this is very important
M says like this the
following he says like this there are
two
reasons why we wash before Auda and this
is very important up until now to be
Crystal Clear we said already two
reasons why we wash by Trum one
is and one is and that's the same thing
by
by says the that when you wash before
bread there is yet another reason why we
wash unrelated to tr so we set
now is because of truma there's yet
another reason not related to
truma and and the reason is based off
the himself brings in the beginning of
by
bread at the end of
the in other
words wash
before unrelated to truma unrelated the
tra
that's that if a person scratches as
here in middle of the sud so even though
if the reason is and therefore you
shouldn't have to wash still the says
you wash because of this to be by sud of
course we do not make a
but what we have so far and then just m
one more minute but we have so far very
clearly tonight when you're going to
wash number one
it's I said in the wrong order you
was even
why do you
wash three reasons reason number one
is by Trum that's the same reason before
reason number two is like
the and reason number three not related
to truma is to bees to eat to eat when a
person's Hal just to conclude with one
more which is the same idea that tonight
when we wash or anytime we wash is yet
another idea another reason besides
truma
Isis stencil
and he goes on the gar this is important
we can't say this whole she without
mentioning of for the gar he goes on the
gar and the gar says the following first
before the gar he just says that
it's
theum by
truma these no D of a mice and
a is you're not t you're not dirty
you're
not these old a just like if a person
needs to go to the mikah for whatever
reason these didn't of a m going to the
mikah you just need the after effect
that you were in the mikah that's by
truma
by of course it's Trum but it's yet
another then when we're going to wash
tonight besides that we want the after
effect of the washing which means
afterwards to be T we also want a m a
m when we're going to watch tonight
there's one thing that we have the after
effect that now we're not we're not but
he's yet another of
a and he explains this in the gar in
with this I'm going to conclude the
gamar says
we can't speak about without mentioning
this but he brings the the
says why do we
wash we're familiar with this
reason you know why we
was first of
all so thear says myv what's the Mitzvah
so the
says one is one
is so asks a question what what do you
say
my what do you
mean thear says the reason why you wash
what's the void the reason why you
wash says you know what the is in the
one reason you
is explains the bris I'm saying it very
but this say and this is very this is
important what the G is saying what was
bother
what what do you mean the
says say meaning to say is like this
reason number one you
wash that's the same reason like by just
to
what
does he's
a to go and wash your hands like what we
just said before the concept Trum you
only have to make sure
you by by there another besid making
sure the after effect is to go like the
says to
do to wash your hands like we said in so
just to sum it up
we wash our hands before tonight when
you're going to
wash
it's
when there are three reasons these
reason number
one reason number two which is
applicable by true man we say reason
number three is
and it's not only in the reason of it's
actually when you're washing by truma
when you wash there's no it's not of
course you have to wash and you make Al
but it's just that you should have the
after effect that
you tonight when you're going to wash
like we saw from the bris yet
another gave us a to do a of washing
like what we saw from the K even if a is
T wash from the K that's the M the of
washing to be have a wonderful shabas