If one recited Shema or prayed within four amot of a garf or avit, must one repeat it?
Synopsis
The Mishnah Berurah rules that if one prayed within four amot of an avit found afterward in range, one must repeat — but only if the location was one where there was reason to suspect its presence from the start. If found within melo einav (in front), one need not repeat b'dieved.
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