[Avodah] You Took My Tissue

[Jonathan Baker]

From: "Michael Kopinsky" <mkopinsky at gmail.com>
 
> If I am in the middle of Shemoneh Esrei and my nose is dripping, and I
> have a choice between taking one of my neighbor's tissues or either
> sniffling and disturbing people's davening or wiping my nose on my sleeve
> (which is VERY lacking in basic manners), this Sha'ailah could be very
> relevant.
 
If your nose is dripping that badly, you have a bad cold, and probably
shouldn't have gone to shul in the first place, both for personal
discomfort and so as not to spread it to everyone else.  Or you have a
nosebleed, and again don't want to drip on everyone.  But there are ways
to control a nosebleed without a tissue.

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