Details About the Tefillin Boxes and Straps: Difference between revisions

# The minimum length of the strap for the [[tefillin]] of the head is at least enough to go around the head plus two [[Tefachim]] on each side going down. <ref> Mishna Brurah 27:44 </ref> The custom is that the right one be longer than the left one and that both go past the midsection. <ref> Mishna Brurah 27:41 </ref>

# The straps should be colored black. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, place of donning and how to don, seif 24, S"A 33:3 and Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the straps, seif 3 say that this is a halacha limoshe misinai. Mishna Brurah 33:19 says they should be as black as a raven and adds that one should be especially careful at the spot where one tightens the [[tefillin]] as the paint there wears off easily. </ref>  

# The coloring can be done by a women, or a child if the child is supervised by an adult who instructs him to paint it for its sake. <ref> Mishna Brurah 33:23 </ref>

# The coloring can be done at night. <ref> Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg quoted in Mivakshei Torah volume 4 page 415. </ref>