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# It is a good habit to test out the pen before beginning to write a passage. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 32:22 </ref> | # It is a good habit to test out the pen before beginning to write a passage. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 32:22 </ref> | ||
# The passages for [[Tefillin]] must be written by a literate religious adult male Jew. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 32:30 and Shulchan Aruch 39:1 </ref> | # The passages for [[Tefillin]] must be written by a literate religious adult male Jew. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 32:30 and Shulchan Aruch 39:1 </ref> | ||
# [[Tefillin]] written by a gentile or a Jew who does not believe in the entire Torah and its divinity are not kosher. <ref> Rambam Hilchot [[Tefillin]] 1:13 </ref> Women are exempt from wearing [[Tefillin]] and as such may not write [[Tefillin]]. <ref>Gemara Gittin 45b, | # [[Tefillin]] written by a gentile or a Jew who does not believe in the entire Torah and its divinity are not kosher. <ref> Rambam Hilchot [[Tefillin]] 1:13 </ref> Women are exempt from wearing [[Tefillin]] and as such may not write [[Tefillin]]. <ref>Gemara Gittin 45b, Shulchan Aruch 39:1</ref> | ||
# The passages should be written on 4 separate pieces of parchment for the [[Tefillin]] shel rosh and on the same piece of parchment for the [[Tefillin]] shel yad. <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, [[miscellaneous]] laws (of [[Tefillin]]), seif 3 </ref> | # The passages should be written on 4 separate pieces of parchment for the [[Tefillin]] shel rosh and on the same piece of parchment for the [[Tefillin]] shel yad. <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, [[miscellaneous]] laws (of [[Tefillin]]), seif 3 </ref> | ||
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# Even though one is not obligated, it is praiseworthy to have one's [[Tefillin]] checked every year, particularly during the month of [[Elul]] and the aseret yimei teshuva. <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 1:49, http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=356 </ref> | # Even though one is not obligated, it is praiseworthy to have one's [[Tefillin]] checked every year, particularly during the month of [[Elul]] and the aseret yimei teshuva. <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 1:49, http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=356 </ref> | ||
# It is proper to check one's Tefillin to make sure that they are still valid twice every seven years. However, if [[Tefillin]] get damaged by water then they should be checked immediately, if that is not possible then one may use them, however without making a bracha. | # It is proper to check one's Tefillin to make sure that they are still valid twice every seven years. However, if [[Tefillin]] get damaged by water then they should be checked immediately, if that is not possible then one may use them, however without making a bracha. | ||
<ref> Kitzur | <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu 10:26 </ref> | ||
# If one has not gotten one's [[Tefillin]] checked for a long time and later finds out they were unkosher, one should increase one's Torah learning and some say one should take upon oneself to also wear Rabbeinu Tam [[Tefillin]] if one has not been already doing so. <ref> Sh"t Otzrot Yosef 3:8 </ref> | # If one has not gotten one's [[Tefillin]] checked for a long time and later finds out they were unkosher, one should increase one's Torah learning and some say one should take upon oneself to also wear Rabbeinu Tam [[Tefillin]] if one has not been already doing so. <ref> Sh"t Otzrot Yosef 3:8 </ref> | ||
