Cleanliness for Prayer
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Question
To the honored rabbis, shlita,
If someone put on tefillin and prayed, and after the prayer discovered that he had feces in its place, which invalidates the prayer, were his prayers and blessings considered prayers and blessings, only with a rule that he must perform everything again? Or were all the prayers and blessings in vain, and he thereby transgressed the prohibition of reciting blessings and uttering the Name of Heaven improperly?
If someone put on tefillin and prayed, and after the prayer discovered that he had feces in its place, which invalidates the prayer, were his prayers and blessings considered prayers and blessings, only with a rule that he must perform everything again? Or were all the prayers and blessings in vain, and he thereby transgressed the prohibition of reciting blessings and uttering the Name of Heaven improperly?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha.
He did not fulfill his obligation with the blessings and the prayer.
Did he thereby transgress a prohibition? If he had reason to be concerned that he was not clean and did not check, he transgressed a prohibition.
However, if there was no reason for him to suspect this, he did not transgress a prohibition.
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