Washing Hands - Part 2 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

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[Music] today we are gathered here today on this solemn occasion to try to learn a few of the laws of handwashing before eating bread uh there are rather a lot of them actually as I just mentioned when we finish this and we move on to the of of you know two having two loaves of bread for chabas you'll see that the is a lot shorter it's it's just an interesting thing how how detailed and how complex theas of washing your hands are um it's best not to wash your hands in the bathroom now we need to try to understand a little bit about the over here of bathroom in general because when the alaka talks about a bathroom it's not it's not really talking about the bathrooms that we have today bathrooms that we have today are very hygienic they're very clean um I'm not talking about dormatory bathrooms I'm just talking about you know a generic bathroom uh they're very hygienic they're very clean there's nothing left there after it's all been Flushed Away uh in the olden days bathrooms were truly you know pretty pretty nasty places to go into um so today it's interesting um is it okay

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1. 0:00[Music] today we are gathered here today on this solemn occasion to try to learn a…
2. 2:12places where the only sink available is a sink that's in the bathroom so that's what…
3. 4:14hands you know get rid of a lot of the moisture before they start making the…
4. 6:21you recite the BR the blessing of coming out of the bathroom so until you need…
5. 8:29didn't make the BR so fine they can rely on the who says that it's okay…
6. 10:41rice flour which is not that's not uh that you know that's not even though you…
7. 12:44right oh so say this is all right you should use something to dry your hands…
8. 14:51says now again it says that W wiping your wet hands on your shirt is causes…
9. 16:54the interim it's all this if that's the case it's a problem right I think it's…
10. 18:55with an any woods I don't think there's very much difference between between that and speaking…

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