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title: Siman 81 – Child’s excrement
description: "אChelek 1 1. Once a child is 6 or 7 you must distance yourself from his excrement and urine. Younger than that depends upon when the child can eat a k’zayis daggan bichday achillas prass. (ShA - MB - ShaH…"
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updated: "2023-01-18"
category: Laws of Krias Shema
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# Siman 81 – Child’s excrement

אChelek 1

1. Once a child is 6 or 7 you must distance yourself from his excrement and urine. Younger than that depends upon when the child can eat a k’zayis daggan bichday achillas prass. (ShA  - MB  - ShaH 5)
2. The above rule is min hadin, but it is good and proper to distance even from excrement of an eight-day old baby. (MB )

## Key

**ShA**
 : Shulchan Aruch

**MB**
 : Mishna Berura

**ShaH**
 : Shaar Hatsiun

**ShaT**
 : Shaaray Teshuva

**BeH**
 : Beur Halacha

**BaH**
 : Baer Haytayv

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