Ironically, I just had such a case, but I doubt it is a cause for OTD. My boys’ school is doing an Elul campaign to promote proper davening and neigel vasser- they get a stamp from the Rebbe each day that they daven nicely and bring in a note from home that they washed properly. The note explaining the campaign to the parents said the kids should be encouraged to wash with water next to their beds, as they learned in school. Now I know many people are makpid on this, it happens to be that we are not and go by the opinion that it is fined to wash in the sink too. My son mentioned this to me, before I read the note, and I said, but we follow a different opinion, and the point is to wash neigel vasser and it’s fine if you do it from the sink. I don’t know if I would have said differently had I read the note, I didn’t know I was outright contradicting what the principal had said. On the other hand, is it proper chinuch to set up water bowls by their beds just during the next 2 weeks of the campaign? Besides that, practically speaking, considering how tight their beds are, someone is sure to end up with a very wet bed.
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