[Avodah] What’s the proper procedure for netilas yadayim before eating bread?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 16/11/16 09:49, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> One should then rub one’s hands together, a process called /shifshuf
> /(Shulchan Aruch, 162:2), a practice Rav Belsky, /zt”l/ felt is too
> often overlooked (Shulchan Halevi, chapter 3:1b)
>
> One should then make the blessing /al netilas yadayim/ and then dry them
> (Mishnah Berurah, 158:42).
>

Aren't these instructions in the wrong order?  The bracha is *before*
the shifshuf, isn't it?

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