Pesachim

He who washes his hands [before eating]1 must not recite kiddush.2 Said R. Isaac b. Samuel b. Martha to them: Rab has not yet died3 and we have [already] forgotten his ruling! I stood many times before Rab: sometimes he preferred bread [and] recited kiddush over bread; at others he preferred wine [and] recited kiddush over wine.4 R. Huna said in Rab's name: Once he has tasted [food] he must not recite kiddush.5 R. Hana b. Hinena asked R. Huna: May he who has tasted [food] recite habdalah?6 I maintain, replied he, [that] he who has tasted [food] recites habdalah. But R. Assi said: He who has tasted [food] may not recite habdalah. R. Jeremiah b. Abba visited R. Assi. He forgot himself and ate something. [ Then] they gave him a cup [of wine] and he recited habdalah. Said his [R. Assi's] wife to him [R. Assi]: But you7 do not act thus? Leave him, replied he; he holds as his teacher. 8 R. Joseph said in Samuel's name: He who has tasted [food] may not recite kiddush; he who has tasted [food] may not recite habdalah. But Rabbah said in R. Nahman's name in Samuel's name: He who has tasted [food] does recite kiddush; and he who has tasted [food] does recite habdalah ‘ between the washing and the eating of some bread. duty thereby. If he does recite kiddush, he must wash again before eating. This proves that the reciting of kiddush is not an interruption and does not necessitate washing again. R. Tam: sometimes he preferred bread (being very hungry) and recited kiddush (over wine) with the intention of eating bread immediately after it ( kg can bear this meaning); hence he must have washed before kiddush, and as we see, another washing is unnecessary.