Q. Re- question 1723 regarding washing hands after entering a bathroom. A most common case of bathrooms in offices and other public places, are small one room bathrooms with a toilet and sink only, that are not used for anything else but as a beth hakise. What then should someone do to remove the ruach ra from the hands since he is washing hands while inside?
A. Poskim recommend wetting the hands properly and taking with the napkin or paper towel and drying the hands outside of the facility.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is similar, although he maintains that there is no ruach raah in our cleaner modern facilities and in principle one does not have to wash netilas yodaim three times with a vessel, after using them.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
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