{"id":8192,"date":"2016-02-05T00:08:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:30:53","slug":"03-05-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/03-05-08\/","title":{"rendered":"08. Food Touched by Unwashed Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">We learned (section 2 above) that because <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ru\u2019a\u0125 ra\u2019ah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> rests upon one\u2019s hands in the morning, one must not touch food or drink before <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">netilat yadayim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">. If a Jew touched food without washing her hands, the ruling is as follows: If it is a dry, washable food, like fruit, she should rinse it under water three times. Just as the washing of each hand three times purifies them, so too it will cleanse the fruit. However, if she mistakenly touched drinks or food that will become ruined when washed, some rule stringently that the food must be discarded out of fear that <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ru\u2019a\u0125 ra\u2019ah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> rests upon them (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Od Yosef \u0124ai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Toldot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> 6), but according to most <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">poskim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">, even those foods that cannot be washed may be eaten. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">There are two reasons for this: first, according to most <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">poskim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">, the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ru\u2019a\u0125 ra\u2019ah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> on one\u2019s hands does not have the ability to render food unfit for eating (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u0124ayei Adam<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> 2:2; MB 4:14; AHS 4:15). Regarding alcoholic beverages, there are <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">poskim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> who are stringent, but it is the consensus of most <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">poskim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> that all other foods do not become invalidated by the touch of unwashed hands (BHL 4:5 s.v. \u201cLo\u201d). Furthermore, as we have seen (section 3 above), some maintain that <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ru\u2019a\u0125 ra\u2019ah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> has been eradicated from this world and thus need not be feared. Therefore, one should not discard or waste food touched by unwashed hands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Similarly, it is permissible <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">le-khat\u0125ila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> to buy bread or other food from off a store shelf, even though there is concern that it was touched by Jews who did not wash their hands in the morning. This is because, as we have already learned, according to most <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">poskim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">, food is not invalidated by the touch of unwashed hands. Additionally, there is doubt as to whether these foods were actually touched by someone who did not wash his hands in the morning. Moreover, almost all people usually wash their hands in the morning, and it is said in the name of Arizal (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Od Yosef \u0124ai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Toldot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"> 8), that even washing one\u2019s hands once effectively weakens the power of <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ru\u2019a\u0125 ra\u2019ah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned (section 2 above) that because ru\u2019a\u0125 ra\u2019ah rests upon one\u2019s hands in the morning, one must not touch food or drink before netilat yadayim. 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