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The Issue With Having a Bandaid on Your Hand For Netilas Yadayim

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Rabbi Glatstein explains the halachic considerations regarding bandages during netilas yadayim.

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Recording in progress. >> Okay, good morning everyone. So my name is Reb Meir Abaya. We're continuing in Mishna Berurah Dafa Shavua. We're learning Siman kuf samach baze sif tes. The Mechaber said when you pour mayim rishonim on your hands, you have to be very careful that nothing remains on your hand. Not a pebble, not a chip, or anything else. Because the chiddush of netilas yadaim Because the chiddush of netilas yadaim that mayim shni'im is metahar mayim rishonim is only metahar the water on your hand, not the water on something else. However, if you pour a revi'is there is no issue. We mentioned yesterday this is not a chatzitza issue. The issue here is not a chatzitza. It's a fundamental issue to the concept of netilas yadaim that the din of netilas yadaim is only effective on water on your hand, not on water on something else. Says the Mishna Berurah something else. Says the Mishna Berurah sif katan samach gimmel vi'af shelo yisharve af k'sheheim r'fuyim even if it's loose, even if the pebble, the chip is loose, v'ra'uy l'hiyos asur m'tamei she hamayim could come underneath. D'avshu b'zeh lav mishum chatzitza ela k'dei l'fareish this is not a chatzitza issue. This is the peirush of from the Rash and the Rosh. The Rambam though says it's because of chatzitza. But Rabbeinu Yerucham the Torah Na'aleh Shulchan Aruch do not follow the

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  1. 0:05Recording in progress. >> Okay, good morning everyone. So my name is Reb Meir Abaya. We're
  2. 1:37Shulchan Aruch do not follow the rationale of the Rambam. O yishum davar acher im b'mayim
  3. 3:10Okay. The dad and the book concludes still the done the regular little rubbish I call
  4. 4:44want to remind you that yesterday we saw a very interesting shaila. Where the Mishna Berurah
  5. 6:14uh became Tommy and then the mine we shine that was on the bandage could then
  6. 7:51What does he want from that? Oh, there he explains what a is. You put fat
  7. 9:26Because we view the covered part as if it's not there. Not like DNA >> The
  8. 11:01In fact, the Chazon Ish holds that if you have a bandage on your hand, your
  9. 12:32Remember? The Mechaber in siman kuf sameach aleph, seif dalet, She Look at that. Kuf sameach
  10. 14:03How many times it says in the mission of Bora? Not for we're going to we'll

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