May one use fire-heated water (chamei ha-ur) for hand-washing, even when it is scalding hot (yad soledet)?
Synopsis
The Mechaber permits fire-heated water even at scalding temperature. A minority opinion cited by the Smag permits only warm but not scalding. The Taz rules the primary opinion is to permit even scalding.
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