Jewish%20thought for Yoma 59:3

ומאי שנא מצואה על בשרו דאיתמר צואה על בשרו או שהיו ידיו בבית הכסא רב הונא אמר מותר לקרות ק"ש ורב חסדא אמר אסור לקרות ק"ש במקומה נפיש זוהמא שלא במקומה לא נפיש זוהמא

'The Torah was not given to the ministering angels!' This has but reference to a situation in which it is obvious when he sits and invisible when he stands. But what is the difference between this and one who has filth on his body, for it has been stated: Where one who has filth on his body, or whose hands are in a privy,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He happens to have his hands still in the space of the privy, between its door and the wall which separates it from the next room.');">⁵</span> R'Huna permits the reading of the Shema' and R'Hisda forbids it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the whole body ought to be attuned to prayer, as the psalmist has it: All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like unto Thee, Ps. XXXV, 10.');">⁶</span>

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