{"id":8251,"date":"2016-02-09T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:44:31","slug":"03-09-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/03-09-04\/","title":{"rendered":"04. One who Needs to Relieve Herself in the Middle of the Amida"},"content":{"rendered":"
If one began praying when she had no need to relieve herself but a great need arose in the middle of her prayer, since she began praying in a permitted state, she may continue her prayer for as long as she can hold it in. Even if she knew ahead of time that she needs the bathroom, but she thought she could hold it in for 72 minutes, but when she started praying she suddenly felt that she could no longer control herself for 72 minutes, although <\/span>le-khat\u0125ila<\/span><\/i> she should have relieved herself before praying, since she began praying with the thought that she would be able to wait, she may finish praying. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n If her need to relieve herself is so urgent that she cannot wait any longer, she should go immediately. If the interruption in her prayer lasts long enough that in that time she could have prayed the full <\/span>Amida<\/span><\/i> prayer from beginning to end, she must start the <\/span>Amida<\/span><\/i> again. But if the interruption lasts less time, she continues from the <\/span>berakha<\/span><\/i> at which she stopped. 1<\/a><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n If her sudden need is so pressing that she must actively suppress it to prevent herself from urinating or defecating, at which point she transgresses \u201cbal teshaktzu\u201d (Rema 92:2, based on SAH 3:11), the law is as follows: If she is in the middle of Pesukei De-zimra or Birkhot Keri\u2019at Shema, since interruption at that point is not so serious, she must go immediately to relieve herself. However, if she is in the middle of the Amida, where a pause at that point is serious, and if, when she began reciting the Amida, she did not feel the need to relieve herself, she should finish praying. If she cannot wait at all, should she go relieve herself (Peninei Halakha: Prayer, ch. 5 n. 11). ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If one began praying when she had no need to relieve herself but a great need arose in the middle of her prayer, since she began praying in a permitted state, she may continue her prayer for as long as she can hold it in. Even if she knew ahead of time that she needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03-09"],"yoast_head":"\n\n