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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>i received the following from Danny, which was published
in areivim:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>> The gist of it is that mayim acharonim is a chova<BR>> and is so
viewed by the shulchan aruch<BR><BR>Sort of. The SA ends off Hil. MA (OC 181:10)
with: Some do not have<BR>the Minhag to wash MA...<BR><BR>Just keeping the
record straight.<BR><BR>- Danny</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My reply: Sorry to disagree: SH 181:1: Mayim Acharaonim
Chova&quot; and that's that. <BR>Later on in 181:10 he wrote: Yesh she-ein
nohagim letol mayim acharonim.<BR>And therefore according to the klallei pesak
of the SH, I am allowed to<BR>write: mayim acharonim is a chova.<BR>This is so
viewed by the shulchan aruch. It's chova, and there are
some...<BR>Furthermore, when one says SA, one also means the generic one, and
not just<BR>the mechaber, and in this case, let's say using the MB, which is
generally<BR>accepted as the last word in Halakha for the yeshiva world and
present day<BR>posekim, there is no way out, for in MB 22, he cancels the yesh
nohagim <BR>by presenting four views: According to the Gra one must wash
hands, <BR>according to mekubalim one must be zaheer in mayim acharonim, and
both the <BR>maharshal and chida were very stringent in this.<BR>And that's
that.<BR>Shlomo</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>