[Avodah] hand washing

[Eli Turkel]

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I attend a shiur of "tzurba merabban" once a week and the goal is to
cover all parts of SA together with the appropriate gemara and modern
day poskim. There are formal booklets that are to be prepared before
the shiur and it is available on the internet (internationally there
are over 100 groups that have joined).

We are currently lerning hilchot neitalat yadaim and the rabbi
incharge of the program who is also a RY in Kerem BeYavne mentioned
that washing hands should use more than a reviit for a blessing for
paranassah. However, he stressed that this means one should use a
little more than a reviit without measuring. There is no extra benefit
to use 3 or 4 reviit rather than 1 1/2 or 2 and in fact one is wasting
water.  This is the same idea that was mentioned by Rabbi E. Teitz on
the list. He mentioned that they are now selling in Jerusalem natlas
that contain exactly 2 reviit rather thanl 4 of the usual cups.

For the ladies:
He said that someone who has an expensive ring and is afraid of
putting it down and losing it an idea is to pour a complete reviit on
the hand then move the ring to another part of the finger followed by
a second reviit.
Of course if the ring is never removed even when baking then there is
no need to remove the ring at all. The one woman who was attending the
shiur said that she wears several rings some of which she removes when
they would get dirty and some which stay on all the time.

-- 
Eli Turkel