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YOU COULD BE EXCOMMUNICATED FOR NOT WASHING YOUR HANDS

Talmud: Berachot 19a

It was Eleazar b. Hanoch, who raised doubts about washing the hands, and when he died the Beth din sent and had a large stone placed on his coffin, to teach you that if a man is excommunicated and dies in his excommunication, the Beth din stone his coffin.