If no cup is available for washing one's hands, one can immerse them into a river or into snow, if there's enough snow on the ground to fill a Mikve. (About 500 litres/130 gallons of water.)
This applies to washing three times after arising as well as washing before eating bread.
Source Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 2:6, 40:7
- Danny, in snowy Jerusalem
12 Tevet 5774
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Halocho #1242 – Washing with Snow
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