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Following Kiddush, we wash our hands before eating the karpas, based on the halacha of davar shetibulo
bemashkeh, washing hands for any vegetable dipped in a liquid, which is cited elsewhere in the Shulchan
Aruch as applying all year round. However, since Rishonim dispute whether there is in fact an obligation to
do so today (and many today rely on the lenient opinions not to do so at all), we wash our hands without
a beracha.

a Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 473:6 ו:געת ח״וא | ע״וש . 19
One washes one’s hands for the sake of the first dipped לע ךרבי אלו ןושאר לוביט ךרוצל וידי לטונ
vegetable, but one does not recite a beracha on the washing. …הליטנה

a Mishna Berura 158:20 כ:חנק | הרורב הנשמ . 20
Since there are a few Rishonim who hold that the Sages did not וכירצה אלש ירבסד םינושארה תצקמ שי יכ
require washing hands for vegetables that have been dipped in אלא הקשמב ולוביטש רבדל י”טנ םימכח
liquid except in their days, where they were scrupulous about וישכע כ”אשמ הרהטב םילכוא ויהש םהימיב
eating in a state of purity, as opposed to nowadays where we י”טנע ךרבי אל ךכלו םיתמ יאמט ונלוכש
are all impure with impurity of a corpse [tamei meit]. Therefore .לקהל תוכרב קפסש
one should not recite a beracha, as uncertainties with regard to
berachot are resolved leniently [i.e., not reciting a beracha].

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