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<font size=3>At 02:25 PM 9/14/2018, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">3. When one sleeps, a ru'ach
ra'ah descends upon the body, and when he<br>
: awakens, the ru'ach ra'ah remains on his hands, and is removed by
the<br>
: ritual of washing the hands three times (Bais Yosef O.C. 4 from
Zohar<br>
: and Mechaber 4:2 with Mishnah Berurah s.k. 8).<br><br>
Al pi nistar, however, one has to wash as soon as one can, and as<br>
metaphysics is involved we care about how you wash beyond just
whether<br>
it's koach gavra.<br><br>
It is not an issue of taharah as prep for a mitzvah as much as
tum'ah<br>
is a state to avoid being in.</blockquote><br>
Why does the ru'ach ra'ah remain only on the hands? How does it
leave the rest of the body?<br><br>
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