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?
Synopsis
When two people sleep together under one cloth with bare skin touching, a cloth must separate them from the waist down before Shema may be recited. The prohibition applies both when touching and when facing each other at close range.
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