{"id":8247,"date":"2016-02-09T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:43:50","slug":"03-09-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/03-09-02\/","title":{"rendered":"02. Preparing One\u2019s Body for the Amida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Sages teach that one who needs to use the bathroom, be it to urinate or to defecate, may not pray (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Berakhot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> 23a). There are two reasons for this: 1. The need for relief is likely to disrupt one\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">kavana <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">(Rambam); and 2. It is not proper to come to pray before God when the body is made repulsive by the excrement inside it (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Hagahot Maimoniyot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">). Even if one is uncertain as to whether or not she needs to use the bathroom, the Sages say that <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">le-khat\u0125ila <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">one should use the bathroom (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Berakhot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> 15a). The Sages support their statement with the verse (Amos 4:12), \u201cIsrael, prepare to meet your God.\u201d It is also written: \u201cGuard your foot when you go to the House of God\u201d (Kohelet 4:17), which they interpret to mean that one should ensure that she does not need to relieve herself when she gets up to pray. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">One who has a cold should wipe her nose before praying so that she need not do so while praying. If the phlegm in her throat bothers her, she should expel it before praying so that it does not distract her during prayers (SA 92:3). If she must wipe her nose while praying, she should do so in the most polite way possible. 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