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==Kissing Tefilin and [[Tzitzit]] during Shema==
==Kissing Tefilin and [[Tzitzit]] during Shema==
# There is a practice to gather all four Tzitziyot when one gets to the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz” or "Maher Vaheve Alenu" and hold them in your left hand. When one gets to third paragraph of Shema one transfers the strings into one’s right hand, while holding onto the knots with one’s left hand until “VeNemanim VeNechmadim Laad” when one kisses the [[tzitzit]] and lets go of the tzitziyot. The same applies to a lefty. Some have the practice to only hold the two front tzitiyot.  <ref> * Kaf HaChaim 24:8 quotes Shaar HaKavanot who writes that at the words "Maher Vaheve Alenu" one should arrange his [[tzitzit]] so that two corners are in front and two in the back. Afterwards, one should take all four corners in one's left hand. Ben Ish Chai Parashat Shemot Halacha 5 agrees.  
# There is a practice to gather all four Tzitziyot when one gets to the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz” <ref> Halacha Brurah (24:6 and 60:5) writes that one should take the four corners of the [[tzitzit]] when one reaches the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz”. </ref>
* Halacha Brurah (24:6 and 60:5) writes that one should take the four corners of the [[tzitzit]] when one reaches the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz”. </ref>
  </ref> or "Maher Vaheve Alenu" <ref> Kaf HaChaim 24:8 quotes Shaar HaKavanot who writes that at the words "Maher Vaheve Alenu" one should arrange his [[tzitzit]] so that two corners are in front and two in the back. Afterwards, one should take all four corners in one's left hand. Ben Ish Chai Parashat Shemot Halacha 5 agrees. </ref> and hold them in your left hand. When one gets to third paragraph of Shema one transfers the strings into one’s right hand <ref> Pri Megadim Eshel Avraham 24:1, Mishna Brura 24:4 </ref>, while holding onto the knots with one’s left hand until “VeNemanim VeNechmadim Laad” when one kisses the [[tzitzit]] and lets go of the tzitziyot. <ref> Mishna Brura 24:4. Tzitz Eliezer 13:3 writes that one who doesn't gather the tzitzit and kiss them during kriat shema is breaking away from the congregation. </ref> This is true for a blind man as well. <ref> Mishna Brura 24:7 </ref>
# When one says “UKeshartem LeOt Al Yadecha” one should kiss the [[Tefilin]] Shel Yad. When one says “Vehayu LeTotafot Ben Eiynecha” one should kiss the [[Tefilin]] Shel Rosh. <Ref> S”A 61:25 </ref>
# Some say that one should gather only the two in front of him, while others say all four <ref> S"A 61:25 writes that when one says "ureetem oto" he should grab the front two tzitziyot. see also Beit Yosef on Tur 24 and S"A 25:5. Yalkut Yosef 24:6 in the footnotes writes that this was the practice of his father, Chacham Ovadia Yosef zt"l.  
# When one says “UReetem Oto” (in the third paragraph of Shema) one should kiss the two front tzitziyot. <Ref>S”A 61:25 </ref>
* However, Sh"t Torah Lishma 39, Kaf Hachaim 24:8, and Radvaz 3:571 say that one should collect all four  </ref>  
# When one says “UKeshartem LeOt Al Yadecha” one should kiss the [[Tefilin]] Shel Yad. When one says “Vehayu LeTotafot Ben Eiynecha” one should kiss the [[Tefilin]] Shel Rosh. <Ref> S”A 61:25 </ref>


==Kavana one needs for Shema==
==Kavana one needs for Shema==