📄Dipping one’s hands in a river for the morning washing

Dipping one’s hands in a river: [1]

Dipping one’s hands three times into a river is questionable whether it removes the impurity.[2] Thus, one is to re-wash his hands properly pouring three times from a vessel.

[1] Kama 4:12; M”A 4:10; Mamar Mordechai 4:7; Chayeh Adam 2:1; 159:22 regarding washing hands for bread; See previous Halacha and footnotes there for the background and explanations of this ruling.

[2] Although dipping three times into a river is similar to dipping one’s hands into three different vessels, nevertheless it is possible that the impurity only becomes removed from the hands through pouring from a vessel. [Kama ibid]