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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 78
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Orach Chayim Siman 78 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 1 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
Original text
<b>מי שנצטרך להטיל מים בשעת קריאה. ובו סעיף אחד:</b><br>היה קורא והתחילו מי רגליו שותתין על ברכיו פוסק עד שיכלו המים וחוזר לקרות אפילו אם נפלו על בגדיו ויש בהם טופח ע"מ להטפיח כיון שהם מכוסים בבגדו ואם נפלו מי רגלים בארץ מרחיק מהם ד' אמות: הגה או כשיעור שיתבאר לקמן סימן פ"ב או ממתין עד שיבלעו בקרקע [הר"י פ"ב דברכות] ואפי' שהה כדי לגמור את כולה א"צ לחזור אלא למקום שפסק: הגה וי"א דאם שהה כדי לגמור את כולה חוזר לראש וכן עיקר וכמו שכתבתי לעיל סי' ס"ה ומשערין לפי הקורא:
One Who Needs to Urinate at the time of Recitation [of the Sh'ma], containing 1 Se'if If one was reciting, and urine began flowing onto their knees, they should pause until the flow stops, and [then] return to recite - even if it fell on his garments and it had [enough] moisture to moisten [a surface which could in turn moisten another surface], since it is covered by one's clothing (ie. he had another layer of dry clothing on top of the wet one) [they can continue to recite]. And if urine fell on the ground, one should distance from it 4 amot. Rem"a: Or [they should distance themselves] the amount that will be clarified below in Siman 82, or one can wait until it is absorbed into the ground [The Ri, Chapter 2 of B'rachot] And even if one delayed enough to finish all of it [i.e. the recitation], there is no need to go back [in the recitation] other than to the place that one paused. Rem"a: And there are those who say that if one delayed enough to finish all of it, they must return to the beginning, and this is the main [position that one should follow] like what I wrote above in Siman 65. And it is calculated according to the [time it would take the particular] reader.
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