[Avodah] mayim achronim

[Poppers, Michael]

In Avodah V27n222#2 (I'm not a card player, but to quote a baseball announcer talking about a 2-2 count w/ 2 outs [al achas kamah v'kamah w/ 2 players on the bases], deuces are wild), RShG wrote:
> yekkes never accepted the "chumra" or "chova", not b/c of melech s'domis, 
but b/c we used silverware.   :) <
>From one Yekke to another (and the list): in all seriousness, I recall once reading a passage from MaHaRYL re mayim acharonim (the context was the Seider night) -- one Rav (at the table?) didn't wash MA unless his hands were dirty, but IINM MaHaRYL looked askance at not washing MA. (For the record: I don't wash MA unless my hands are dirty, and if I do wash, I _really_ wash -- IIRC, RAZZ in his article was puzzled by those who wash with a teensy amount of water....)

A gut'n Shabbes and all the best from 
-- Michael Poppers via BB pager