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Chapter 4

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Chapter 3. Doubt in the house. Doubt in the dumpster. Nakedness. Bottom half of a man’s body. Under a sheet. Your heart should not see your private parts. 2 people under the sheet. Who you are sharing a bed with. The age of your children.

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Chapter 3. A different enclosure + 3 and a third feet above or below + and you cannot smell it, in the clear. If you can cover it without touching it, in the clear. Glass partition, in the clear. Diluting the pee (1/3c water) + standing 6 feet away, in the clear. Spit on a little poo, in the clear. Poo on you + dry + doesn’t smell, in the clear - not ideal. Wash up. If it smells bad you cannot say Shema. You cannot say Shema in front of a vessel for waste. Sewage container. Temporary toilet. 6 feet away from floating poo or a pig’s mouth, in the clear. You’re walking and you find yourself face to face with pee/poo/odor, wait and keep moving until you are 6 feet away, and don’t smell it, in the clear.

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Chapter 3. Wash your hands before Shema. No water - use natural material. No water - say Shema within timeframe. No saying Shema in bathroom, bathhouse, spa (anywhere where nakedness or waste is exposed). No saying Shema in a graveyard or near a dead body. No saying or thinking any holy words, even not Shema, in Hebrew or any language in the bathroom, bathhouse, or spa. Yes speaking secular subjects in Hebrew or any language bathroom, bathhouse, or spa. You cannot say a name of HaShem in bathroom, bathhouse, or spa. You can refer to Him by description. No saying Shema in front of human / animal poop, or human urine. Poop outside you need to distance from, unless super crumbly dry. Urine outside that is dried out is fine, wet you need to distance yourself from. Child urine depending on their stage, you do or don’t need to distance yourself from. Distance = 6 feet.

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Chapter 2. Pausing. In order. Not sure? Say again. Sure you said Shema? Not again. Mistake? Go back. Mistake within section? Go back to beginning of section. When in doubt. Go back. Between sections. Stop to greet someone of status. Stop to respond to a friendly greeting. In middle of section. Stop to greet someone you fear. Stop to respond to someone of status. The intervals. Vayomer + Veyatziv come together.