12-07-2011, 12:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-07-2011, 12:14 PM by Director Michael.)
Yes, when you are in the bathroom, either clothed or unclothed, that restriction applies for either mental or verbal prayer, and you should "catch yourself" and "try to retain the thought for a more appropriate time." Prayer in a bathroom should be reserved only for an emergency, G-d forbid, and even then it should be mental, not verbal. If you want to apologize to G-d while you're in a bathroom, that is also a prayer, so that thought should also be retained for a more appropriate time. As I wrote above in Post #43:
Director Michael Wrote:Adam and Chava (Eve) were allowed to stand naked in prayer only before they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Gen. 2:25)
After the evil inclination had entered into them, it was henceforth shameful for them to stand naked before G-d (Gen. 3:10), and therefore G-d taught them to wear clothing. (Gen. 3:21)