Commentary for Berakhot 29:3
א"ל רבינא לרבא חזי מר האי צורבא מרבנן דאתא ממערבא ואמר מי שאין לו מים לרחוץ ידיו מקנח ידיו בעפר ובצרור ובקסמית
Rabina said to Raba : Has the master seen the Rabbinical scholar who has come from the West and said, "Who has no water wherewith to wash his hands should rub them with earth or pebbles or sawdust"?
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
M.: Raba to Rafram b. Pappa.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
There is a similar law among the Muhammadans : "But if... ye find no water, take fine clean sand and rub your faces and your hands therewith"; Koran iv. 46, v. 9; Lane, p. 72.
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