## Simchat HaRegel on Pesach Haggadah, Urchatz

###### Simchat HaRegel on Pesach Haggadah, Urchatz 1:1
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**ירחץ** לצורך טיבול הכרפס. שכך תקנו רז"ל ליטול כשאוכל טיבולו במשקה ואמר ורחץ בוי"ו דהוי כאלו אמר רחץ ורחץ ע"ד שארז"ל ויתן לך יתן ויחזו' ויתן כלומר רחץ בכל השנה על דבר שטיבולו במשקה ורחץ בליל פסח לאפוקי הנוהגים ליטול בליל פסח ובכל השנה אוכלים טיבולו במשקה בלי רחיצה כגון פת הבאה בכסנין לתוך הקאפ"י וכיוצא ועוברין על הדין שכך הוקבעה הלכה בש"ע והיא סברת רוב הפוסקים ולא חיישינן למיעוטא וכן הוא דעת הרב ט"ז והרב של"ה:

**Rabbi Mark Greenspan, 2021:**
**Summary:** While we associate the first washing at the Seder with Passover, Chida argues that whenever one dips food in liquid, one should wash. His discussion here deals solely with the *halachah* of washing.
***U’rechatz**:***** The washing is for the purpose of dipping *karpas* (greens) in a liquid. For the sages decreed that one must wash one's hands when eating anything that is dipped in liquid.²⁰ food to contract ritual impurity.” Sefaria, Talmud The word is written with a *vav (U’rechatz*), to imply repeatedly washing, in the same way that the sages said, “May God give you of the dew of heaven,” (*Vayiten lecha*) means, “May God give thee repeatedly.”²¹ In other words, *U’rechatz* means washing throughout the year before anything that requires dipping in liquid and also on Passover eve. This is meant to exclude those who take foods that involve dipping in liquids throughout the year and do so without washing, such as dipping cookies in coffee and other such things. They have transgressed the law in the *Shulchan Aruch*.²² 158:4, *Taz ad loc.* This is the opinion of most of the decisors of Jewish law… including the *Taz* and the *Shelah.*

footnotes:
²⁰ See BT Pesachim 115a, states, “Rabbi Elazar said that Rav Oshaya said: Anything that is dipped in a liquid before it is eaten requires the ritual of washing of the hands. The obligation to wash one’s hands was instituted to preserve ritual purity and to prevent people from causing teruma
²¹ See Genesis 27:28, Rashi and Bereshit Rabbah 66:3
²² See Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim,


###### Simchat HaRegel on Pesach Haggadah, Urchatz 1:2
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**עוד** ירמוז קדש ורחץ כפשוטו דאף לנוהגים ליטול בשבת וי"ט קודם קדוש כמ"ש מור"ם סי' ער"א דין י"ב בליל פסח אין ליטול קודם קדוש כמ"ש שם מור"ם ובסי' תע"ג ע"ש וזהו קדש מקודם ורחץ אח"כ:

**Rabbi Mark Greenspan, 2021:**
This is also implied by the combination of ***Kadesh U’Rechatz** *****according to their plain meaning (*peshat*). Even though one may wash on the Sabbath and on festivals before *Kiddush*, as our teacher Rabbi Moses Isserles writes, on the night of Passover one should not wash before the *Kiddush*, as Issereles writes. In 473, he states that *Kadesh* is first and then *U’rechatz.*