{"id":6075,"date":"2010-01-05T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:18:02","slug":"02-05-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/02-05-10\/","title":{"rendered":"10 – One Who Needs to Relieve Himself in the Middle of Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"
The ruling regarding a person who does not need to relieve himself when he starts to pray, but in the middle of his prayer feels a rising need, is based on how much he needs to relieve himself, and what stage of the prayer he is in. There are three levels of need concerning this law:<\/p>\n
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One who can wait 72 minutes is permitted to finish praying.<\/li>\n
One who estimates that he will not be able to wait 72 minutes, but does not yet have to contain the urge, and would have to exert himself slightly to relieve himself at the moment \u2013 since when he started to pray he was permitted, and his immediate need is not so great, he may finish the section that he is saying. If the need arises in the middle of Pesukei d\u2019Zimrah<\/i>, he should wait until reciting Yishtabach<\/i>, thereby finishing Pesukei d\u2019Zimrah<\/i>, and then go relieve himself. If the need arises while he is reciting Birkot Keriat<\/i> Shema<\/i>, he may, in principle, finish the berachot<\/i>. However, because he will need to relieve himself before Shemoneh Esrei<\/i>, it is better not to pause between birkat<\/i> Ga\u2019al Yisrael<\/i> and the Amidah<\/i>. Therefore, he should relieve himself immediately upon finishing the specific berachah<\/i> or paragraph that he is reciting (Mishnah Berurah<\/i> 92:9; Bei\u2019ur Halachah<\/i> s.v. \u201cYa\u2019amid<\/i>\u201d).[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n