[Avodah] Tevillah and Netillas yadayim

[Akiva Blum]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:18 AM, <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given:
> We men take showers before tevila. This creates the possibility that
> if a body part is outside the mikvah but is wet, it can be mitztareif
> to the mikvah provided that the water is continuous w/o hefsek down to
> the mikvah.
>
> OTOH with netillas yadayim, if we wash w/o a poper keli first we need
> to dry our hands. IOW the water is a hefsek.
>
> Why the hilluk?
>

Firstly, it is far from poshut that you need to have dry hands before
netilas yodayim. But assuming you do, the difference is that the water of
the mikva joins together with the mikva since a mikva can be metaher other
objects. With water, it's even better because the water becomes a part of
the mikva itself. The water of netilas yodayim can only be metaher hands,
not anything else.

>>>>>>>>>>> IOW the water is a hefsek.

No, not a hefsek because as a hefsek, it would wash away. It is tomei and
needs taharoh.

Akiva
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20090216/4019a99a/attachment-0002.htm>