Related for Yoma 59:4
ת"ר הלכה בסעודה אדם יוצא להשתין מים נוטל ידו אחת ונכנס דיבר עם חבירו והפליג נוטל שתי ידיו ונכנס וכשהוא נוטל לא יטול מבחוץ ויכנס מפני חשד אלא נכנס ויושב במקומו ונוטל שתי ידיו ומחזיר הטפיח על האורחין
- In its place filth is most execrable, away from it, it is le so. Our Rabbis taught: This is the halachah with regard to meal-time:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hands have to be washed before taking a meal.');"><sup>7</sup></span> If a man goes forth to make water, he washes his one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The one which may have been touched by the squirtings of urine.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Tosefta Berakhot
[This] law [has been taught in the laws] of a meal. [A person] who goes out [of the dining room] to relieve himself, [when he goes back to the table] he washes one hand. [A person who goes out of the dining room] to speak to his friend, and makes a [long] interruption [by talking for a long time, when he goes back to the table he] washes both of his hands. Where does he wash them? He comes [back to the table], sits down in his place, and washes [his hands]. And he returns the pitcher [with which he washed his hands to the waiter who shows it] to the [other] guests [who are sitting together with him in the dining room].
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