[Mesorah] S. Baer on Shelo Assani Nochri

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Zev Sero: <<< If you're not washing from a natla then what you are doing is not netila, so how can you say "al netilas yodayim". >>>

I was taught that "netilah" means "to uplift", and can therefore apply to any method which satisfies the halacha.

RSRH, in his last paragraph on Parshas Shmini (pg 320 in the Isaac Levy translation) writes: <<< The very name "netilas yadayim" itself points to an "Elevation", a "raising upwards". For "natal" is the Chaldean equivalent to "nasa", and "netilas yadayim" is literally "a raising of the hands upwards", just as the specific name of the vessel specially used for this washing is "natla", "raising". >>>

Akiva Miller

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