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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 87
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Orach Chayim Siman 87 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 3 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>כמה צריך להרחיק בשעת ק"ש מן גרף של רעי. ובו ג סעיפים:</b><br>גרף של רעי ועביט של מי רגלים של חרס או של עץ צריך להרחיק מהם כמו מצואה אפי' הטיל בהם מים אבל אם הן של מתכת או של זכוכית או של חרס מצופה מותר אם הם רחוצים יפה:
How Much One Needs to Distance at the Time of the Recitation of the Sh'ma from a Chamberpot Used for Excrement, containing 3 s'ifim A chamberpot used for excrement and a receptacle used for urine, [whether made] of earthenware or wood - one needs to distance from them as from excrement, even if one poured water into them. But if they are of metal, glass, or coated earthenware, it is permitted if they are washed well.
גרף ועביט של חרס או של עץ שכפאו על פיו יש מתירים ויש אוסרין והלכה כדברי האוסרים:
A chamberpot or receptacle of earthenware or wood that is upturned on its opening, there are those who permit and there are those who forbid, and the halakhah (law) is like those who forbid.
מותר לקרות ק"ש בבית שיש בו צואה ומי רגלים או גרף ועביט כיון שהרחיק מהם כשיעור שנתבא' בסי' ע"ט וכן אם כפה עליהם כלי אע"פ שהם עמו בבית הרי אלו כקבורים ומות' לקרות כנגדן:
It it permitted to recite the Sh'ma in a house in which there is excrement or urine or a chamberpot [used for excrement] or receptacle [used for urine] as long as one has distanced from them the amount that was clarified in Siman 79. And similarly, if one inverts a vessel over them, even though they are with him in the house, behold it is as if they are buried and it is permitted to recite opposite them.
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