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Can You Wash Your Hands After You Heard Hamotzi - Mishna Berura Daf Hashavua Siman 167 Seif 7

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Okay, good morning everyone. We're continuing daf siman kuf sameach zayin seif zayin. Reuven was washing his hands to eat. Yaakov was making the bracha of hamotzi. Yaakov had in mind to be motzi all the listeners. Me gave Reuven yadov. After Reuven washed his hands, he then dried his hands and he made the bracha of al netilas yadaim. So, for Reuven, think about the order of what happened. Reuven washed his hands, he heard someone else say hamotzi, he then dried his hands and made the bracha. So, in the world of Reuven, there was a major hefsek between washing the hands, drying them, and making the bracha by listening to hamotzi. Lo ya'aveh hefsek. It's not a hefsek. Ve yoitzei be bracha's Yaakov. He's yoitzei with Yaakov's bracha ve ein tzorech lachzor ul'varech bracha's hamotzi. He doesn't have to make hamotzi again. It happens to be that I have ha'ara'ah on this mechaber. I've been waiting for this for 6 and 1/2 years. On this mechaber. In parsha's Vayechi, there's a major discussion in the acharonim, what exactly is parsha's Vayechi? Is Yaakov rebuking his children? Is Yaakov speaking nevu'ah? The Abarbanel has his classic p'shat. No one explicitly calls what takes place bracha's Yaakov. In the yeshiva ketanas, they make you memorize the bracha's Yaakov. Although, there's no source to to a subject or an a partial of the Torah called Birchas Yaakov. Except for this Machaber in Siman Kuf Samech Zayin, Sif Zayin. You think it's a coincidence that the Beis Yosef set up the case that Reuven is washing his hands and Yaakov is making the Bracha and he refers to it he's Yotzei be Birchas Yaakov. That's the first Torah. Ha'arah number two. Reuven never got a Bracha. Reuven was lambasted.

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  1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone. We're continuing daf siman kuf sameach zayin seif zayin. Reuven was washing…
  2. 1:33acharonim, what exactly is parsha's Vayechi? Is Yaakov rebuking his children? Is Yaakov speaking nevu'ah? The…
  3. 3:07a coincidence that he picked Reuven either. Okay. But in any event, why not? Why is…
  4. 4:41v'lishmaya mashma ham'varech v'lo l'hafsek b'divrei acherim. V'az shomei'a koheina. So, the Mishna Berurah is saying…
  5. 6:16You know, imagine if you braided inter then I don't I don't it's not possible that…
  6. 7:50I would think so. I would think it's a hefsek for them. They heard borei minei…
  7. 9:20Why is he mentioning kiddush now? I was talking about hamotzi. >> Where does this come…
  8. 10:52B'racham Motzi Lo Yuchal Avarcho Al the Tilsi Dyum. We hold Sh'may Koinu and we already…
  9. 12:28He says d'im hanegiva sh'lo haya acher b'virchas hamotzi. If your drying was after hamotzi before…
  10. 14:09If anyone could explain Shulchan Aruch Mem Daled, Tavo Aleichem Bracha. What What exactly is his…

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