{"id":12570,"date":"2009-10-21T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daat-emet.sentice.com\/is-one-permitted-the-recite-the-shema-with-excrement-under-the-bed"},"modified":"2016-10-13T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:47:28","slug":"is-one-permitted-the-recite-the-shema-with-excrement-under-the-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/daily-peppers\/is-one-permitted-the-recite-the-shema-with-excrement-under-the-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is one permitted the recite the <I>shema<\/I> with excrement under the bed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One is forbidden to recite the <I>Shema<\/I>, or any other words of Torah, in the same room as excrement.<br \/>\nOne sage, Rav Yosef, asked another, Rav Huna: Is one permitted to recite the <I>Shema<\/I> when there is excrement beneath a bed whose height is between 30 and 100 cm and the person is reclining upon the bed? The sage answered, &#8220;I do not know.&#8221; Why did he specifically ask about a bed in that height range? It was clear to the sage who asked the question that on a bed lower than 30 cm one may recite the <I>Shema<\/I>, for up to that height the bed forms a closed container above the excrement. Upon a bed higher than a meter, it was clear to the sage who asked the question that one may recite the <I>Shema<\/I> though there is excrement below, for the bed is considered a separate domain, and it is considered as though the recitation is occurring in a location different from that of the excrement.<br \/>\n(Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot 25b)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One is forbidden to recite the Shema, or any other words of Torah, in the same room as excrement. One sage, Rav Yosef, asked another, Rav Huna: Is one permitted to recite the Shema when there is excrement beneath a bed whose height is between 30 and 100 cm and the person is reclining upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2610,"featured_media":20383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-peppers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21891,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions\/21891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}