Prayer · Orach Chaim 73
Prayer and Exposed Skin
5 questions · 29 opinions
May two people sleeping under one cloth with their skin touching each other recite Shema without a cloth separation between them from the waist down?
7 opinions across 2 eras
Physical Conditions for Reci…May a man recite Shema while lying next to his wife without a cloth separation, by merely turning his face away?
7 opinions across 2 eras
Physical Conditions for Reci…May a man recite Shema while lying next to his minor children without a cloth separation?
6 opinions across 3 eras
Physical Conditions for Reci…At what age does a child transition from 'minor' to 'adult' for the purpose of the cloth-separation requirement when sleeping next to a parent?
6 opinions across 2 eras
Physical Conditions for Reci…Does the requirement for a cloth separation (or face-turning) when reciting Shema also require covering the heart to prevent 'libo ro'eh et ha-ervah' (the heart seeing the nakedness)?
3 opinions
Physical Conditions for Reci…