{"id":8253,"date":"2016-02-09T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:44:43","slug":"03-09-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/03-09-05\/","title":{"rendered":"05. The Status of One Who Needs to Relieve Herself vis-\u00e0-vis Other Sacred Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Just as one who needs to relieve herself and cannot wait 72 minutes is forbidden to pray, so too she may not recite <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">berakhot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, say <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Shema,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> or study Torah, for it is not proper to engage in sacred matters when one\u2019s body is offensive. Yet there is a significant difference between the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Amida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> and other sacred matters (\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">devarim she-bikdusha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201d). During the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Amida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, we are like subjects standing before the King. If one does not pray in the proper manner, she disgraces the honor of heaven, and her prayer is an abomination. Therefore, when the person reciting the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Amida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> cannot control her need for 72 minutes, her prayer is invalid. This is not so regarding other matters of sanctity. While saying them, one is not considered to be standing before the King. Hence, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">be-di\u2019avad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, if she recites <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">berakhot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> or <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Shema<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> even when she is not able to control her need for 72 minutes, she fulfills her obligation (MB 92:6; BHL s.v. \u201cAfilu Be-divrei Torah\u201d; <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">3). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">One who can wait 72 minutes, according to most A\u0125aronim, is permitted <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">le-khat\u0125ila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> to recite <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">berakhot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> and study Torah, though there are those who say that it is preferable for her to relieve herself first (MB 92:7). However, if she must exert herself in doing so, she is not required to relieve herself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">One who begins studying Torah when she does not need to relieve herself, but in the course of studying feels a need, to the point where she can no longer wait 72 minutes, should <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">le-khat\u0125ila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> go and relieve herself. If she is in the middle of a topic, some say that she may continue to learn until she completes it (BHL 92:2 s.v. \u201cKoreh\u201d; <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Yalkut Yosef<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, vol. 2, p. 338), whereas others say that she should relieve herself immediately (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">3:48). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">If she is teaching Torah, she should finish her class and then relieve herself, for human dignity (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">kevod ha-briyot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">) is so great that it overrides the rabbinic prohibition of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">bal teshaktzu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201d (MB 92:7). Likewise, it is proper that a student in a class waits and does not leave in the middle out of respect for the class, as long as the need to relieve herself is not that great. If, out of respect for the class, we are lenient regarding the prohibition of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">bal teshaktzu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">,\u201d we certainly refrain as much as possible from going in and out of the class for other reasons, and it is certainly forbidden to disrupt the class by talking.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as one who needs to relieve herself and cannot wait 72 minutes is forbidden to pray, so too she may not recite berakhot, say Shema, or study Torah, for it is not proper to engage in sacred matters when one\u2019s body is offensive. 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