When urine has been absorbed into the ground (or clothing), what level of moisture remains makes it forbidden to pray near?
Synopsis
The Mechaber rules that urine absorbed into the ground is forbidden as long as it is moist enough to wet the hand. The Rema records a more lenient view — that it is only forbidden if the moisture is at the level of tofach al menat lehatpiach (wet enough to transfer wetness to a second object), and rules one may rely on this.
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