What is the minimum duration of a pause between netilat yadayim and Hamotzi that constitutes a halakhic hefsek (interruption)?
Synopsis
Authorities derive from Tosafot's analysis of the metzora's semicha that 22 amot of walking time is the threshold beyond which a pause is definitively a hefsek. Less than this may also be non-ideal but not a certain hefsek.
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