When is tefillin worn

Pronounced: khah-SID-ik, Origin: Hebrew, a stream within ultra-Orthodox Judaism that grew out of an 18th-century mystical revival movement. It helps to know what lies behind the muted bindings and the denominational labels of today's wide array of possibilities. From challah covers to yahrzeit candles, what they are used for, how they look and where you can find them. We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and bring you ads that might interest you.

A Visual Guide The components of tefillin are two leather boxes with parchment with biblical passages inside. Join Our Newsletter Empower your Jewish discovery, daily. Sign Up.

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Head, Covering of the. Hebrew Language. Other rishonim argue and hold that Chol HaMoed does not constitute a "sign" in which case tefillin must be laid on Hol HaMoed. Igrot Moshe writes that the minhag of Israel is not to wear Tefillin. The Tur Siman 31 quotes some rishonim who are uncertain whether one must lay tefillin on Chol HaMoed and concludes that one should wear Tefillin without a Bracha. The Mishna Brurah recommends that on Hol Hamoed one make a mental stipulation before donning tefillin : If I am obligated to don tefillin I intend to fulfill my obligation and if I am not obligated to don tefillin , my doing so should not be considered as fulfilling any obligation; and that the blessing not be recited.

The Rama writes that the Ashkenazic custom is to wear Tefillin with a Bracha which is to be made in an undertone. See further: Rabbi Jachter on koltorah. Rav Moshe Feinstein in Sh"t Igrot Moshe O"C dated Kislev state clearly that one should follow the minhag of the Shul and if the minhag is to wear Tefillin one should also, and abrogating the minhag of the Shul would be Lo Titgodedu. However, Rav Moshe adds that preferably someone who is praying in a shul that wears Tefillin should also wear Tefillin.

Rabbi Schachter on yutorah. In the first, R' Eliezer holds an Avel is prohibited from wearing Tefillin Hanacha until the third day, and R' Yehoshua holds until the second day. Additionally, R' Yehoshua holds that, if the Avel put on Tefillin on the days he's permitted to, if Panim Chadashot people who have not yet been Menachem him come to visit, he must take them off Choletz.

R' Eliezer, on the hand, holds that he does not need to Eino Choletz. The Amoraim debate the final Halacha and conclude that the Halacha follows R' Yehoshua regarding Hanacha and R' Eliezer with respect to Chalitzah, once the Avel puts them on on the second day. See the exact text of the Gemara and Rashi for a clearer picture. The boxes contain four hand-written texts from the Bible, in which believers are commanded to wear certain words on the hand and between the eyes.

The texts are Exodus , ; Deuteronomy , The hand tefillin has all four texts written on a single parchment strip but the head tefillin has four separate compartments, with a single text in each. As with all ritual objects there are very specific rules about how to make tefillin, and how to wear them. Tefillin can only be made by specialists and often come with a certificate from a rabbi to prove that they've been made properly.

The rules do not exist for their own sake, but to ensure that an article of such enormous religious significance is perfect in every way. The texts have to be written with halachically acceptable acceptable according to Jewish law ink on halachically acceptable parchment. There are precise rules for writing the texts and any error invalidates it.

For example, the letters of the text must be written in order - if a mistake is found later, it can't be corrected as the replacement letter would have been written out of sequence. There are letters on the parchments, and it can take a scribe as long as 15 hours to write a complete set.