Prayer and Blessings
Can a Baal Keri Recite Shema?
Question
Hello.
I have a very important question: Can a baal keri recite Shema and the Shemoneh Esreh? What if he wakes up late and sees that the time for prayer is passing? In addition, I am 17 and I am in a secular school. There are girls who come dressed very immodestly, and sometimes, completely unintentionally, unrelated to any issue of shmirat habrit, a drop of semen ends up on my underwear, and exactly then there is a break when one can quickly recite the Shemoneh Esreh of Shacharit, etc. In addition, is it possible to put on tefillin when this happens?
Answer
Greetings and blessings
According to the strict law, one who is a baal keri may pray and recite Shema, provided that he wipes the semen off himself.
And according to the strict law, it is permitted to pray and recite Shema when there are drops of semen on the underwear, but it is forbidden to recite it if they are on the clothing.
The same applies to tefillin.
With blessings - Binyamin Shmueli
