Responsa for Chullin 211:5
כי אתא רבין אמר
and the omission to wash the hands after the meal caused a separation of a wife from her husband.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Yoma 83b, where it is related that certain Rabbis had entrusted their purses to a certain man who later denied all knowledge of them. They noticed that the man had traces of lentils on his upper lip, so they immediately went off to his home and asked his wife in the name of her husband to hand them the purses. On her asking them to prove their bona fides they told her that her husband had eaten lentils that day. She thereupon handed them the purses. When the husband came home and learnt what his wife had done he immediately divorced her, or as some say, killed her. Now had the husband been particular about washing the hands (and naturally also the lips) after the meal, this tragedy of a divorce or a murder would not have happened.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
A. The blessing "over the washing of hands" is recited when one washes his hands upon rising from bed. It is also proper to recite this blessing when one comes out of a privy, and washes one's hands in order to recite the Minha services.
SOURCES: Pr. 40–41; L. 346; Rashba I, 1124. Cf. Wertheimer 4.
Teshuvot Maharam
A. The blessing "over the washing of hands" is recited when one washes his hands upon rising from bed. It is also proper to recite this blessing when one comes out of a privy, and washes one's hands in order to recite the Minha services.
SOURCES: Pr. 40–41; L. 346; Rashba I, 1124. Cf. Wertheimer 4.