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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 81
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Orach Chayim Siman 81 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 2 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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<b>דין צואת קטן. ובו ב סעיפים:</b><br>קטן שהגיע לכלל שאחר כיוצא בו יכול לאכול כזית דגן בכדי שיכול גדול לאכול אכילת פרס מרחיקין מצואתו או ממימי רגליו:
Laws of the Excrement of a Child, containing 2 s'ifim A child who has arrived at [an age that] generally other [children] similar to him can eat an olive-size amount of grain in [span of time] that an adult could eat a half-loaf, we distance ourselves from his excrement or urine.
היה קורא וראה צואה כנגדו ילך כדי שיזרקנה מאחריו ארבע אמות ואם אי אפש' כגון שיש לפניו נהר או דבר אחר המעכב ילך כדי שיניחנ' לצדדין ד' אמות ואינו צריך לחזו' אלא למקום שפסק ולה"ר יונה אם היה במקום שהיה לו לתת אל לבו שיש שם צואה צריך לחזור לראש: [וע"ל סי' ע"ו סעיף ח']:
If one was reciting [the Sh'ma], and saw excrement in front of them, they should go such that they put it behind them by 4 amot. And if that is not possible, for example, there is a river or another thing that prevents [going], they should go such that they place it 4 amot to the side. And one does not have to go back [and recite from the beginning] rather to the place they stopped. And according to Rabbeinu Yonah, if one was in a place where they should have given attention to [the fact] that there is excrement there, they need to go back to the beginning (And see above Siman 76, se'if 8)
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