[Avodah] Washing Hands

[Prof. Levine]

The following is from Areivim.

R. Micha wrote:

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:31:35PM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
 > I recall hearing from someone that RYBS pointed out that our bathrooms
 > today are nothing like the bathrooms of yesteryear and the halacha is
 > different today. (I have no details.)   Today's bathrooms are certainly a
 > far cry from the outhouses of the past.

At http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol12/v12n085.shtml#15 REMP cites R'
Ruderman saying that today's bathroom is not the talmudic beis hakisei.

And see the thread at
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=A#AIRPLANE%20BATHROOMS
which includes a discussion of drying hands outside the bathroom. (An
issue already raised here.)

I quoted a rebbe-chaver (who is a dayan and the head of YCT's halakha dept)
who said this on his own authority.

R David Eisen replied at <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol14/v14n082.shtml#15>
pointing us to a copy of RAZZivitofsky's article in the RJJ Journal
"Your Camp Shall be Holy: Halacha and Modern Plumbing" at
<http://the-eisens.com/modern_plumbing.pdf>. Unfortunately, that domain
no longer exists, never mind the PDF. IIRC, RAZZ leaned toward saying
the modern bathroom follows the gemara's precedent of the Persian
bathroom, where the re'ei rolls down an incline.

If you have anything to add, kindly quote this entire post in a reply to
Avodah.


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

Reb Ari Z. Zivotofsky sent me his article "Your Camp Shall be Holy: 
Halacha and Modern Plumbing"  today and he gave me permission to post 
it on my we site. It is at

http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/halacha_modern_plumbing.pdf

YL
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