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Do you do it?
At what age do you teach kids to start washing negel vasser, if not?
Chazon Ish held even infants should do it, I believe. (The mother or someone else pours the water on them, obviously)
I did it with my babies, but not with a cup. I used running water in the kitchen sink and held their hands out.
I held the baby in front of me, his back to my belly,with my arm across him and leaning him forward a bit so he extended his arms into the sink. I then used the other hand to dump water on his hands alternatingly, not worrying so much about the exact coverage, just the best approximation I could do.
I had 4 girls that were all jaundice and went under the ultraviolet lights then when my son was born he too was jaundice I was worried about the bris!
a little old frum lady who I didn’t know came to visit me at the hospital and told me wash the baby negel vassar and everthing will be fine.
sure enough no lights and the bris was on time !!!
We try to do it every day. We were makpid with all of ours children, from just about day 1.
How I do it? I place infant on my lap, criss-cross his/her hands and hold them together with one hand in correct position, so I generally aim right on. We’re not so fussy about opening her fists if she’d make one, though.
Problem is when they get older, they always want me to wash them “the funny way”!
I’ve never heard of this before today.
Do people also dunk their baby in the mikva?
I first saw about this in the Ben Ish Hai. I think I’ve seen it in other sefarim.
The Chazon Ish had his hands washed from when he was a month old I read
So do we pasken like the chazon ish’s mother? What else did she do?
Rebbetzin Kanievsky also did it. It is in the Artscroll Book page 443
Steipler supposedly said if one washes babies hands negel vasser properly every single day, then Bris will be on time. (I have had nurses in delivery room help me wash when it was getting close to shkiah)
Do people also dunk their baby in the mikva?
Just make sure to tell him not to close his eyes too tight so it shouldn’t be a chatzitzah.
“Chazon Ish held even infants should do it, I believe. (The mother or someone else pours the water on them, obviously)”
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Unfortunately, I don’t have a source for that.
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