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# The two straps of the head [[Tefillin]] are brought in front of the shoulders, with their blackened side facing outwards. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 27:11 </ref> | # The two straps of the head [[Tefillin]] are brought in front of the shoulders, with their blackened side facing outwards. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 27:11 </ref> | ||
===Lefties and | ===Lefties, Righties, Ambidexterity, and Cross Dominance=== | ||
# Right handed people wear the [[Tefillin]] on their left arm and left handed people place it on their right arm. | # Right handed people wear the [[Tefillin]] Shel Yad on their left arm, and left handed people place it on their right arm.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 27:1, 27:6 based on gemara Menachot 37a. As a Middat Chassidut, Or LeTzion (2:3:3) cites the Ben Ish Chai (I Chaye Sarah 7) who recommends being Machmir for the view of the Shalmei Tzibbur that a lefty should wear Tefillin on his right hand.</ref> | ||
# Wearing them on the wrong arm does not fulfill the mitzvah at all.<ref>Kaf HaChaim (Orach Chaim 27:1)</ref> | |||
# Someone who is completely ambidextrous should place the Tefillin on the left arm.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 27:6</ref> | |||
# Regarding a cross dominant person, whether he writes with his right and does everything with his left or vice versa, there is a debate. Some say he should put the Tefillin on the non-dominant arm, meaning whichever is weaker, while others say the hand he writes with determines dominance.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 27:6) presents it as a Yesh veYesh in this order, and the Rama notes how the Minhag follows the latter opinion. Rav Moshe Feinstein in Igrot Moshe O.C. 4:1 discusses this topic at length and concludes in favor of the opinion that considers the stronger hand primary. See Yabia Omer (6 OC 23), Or LeTzion (2:3:3), and Yabia Omer (9 OC 108: Halacha Brurah 27:21 write that someone who writes with one hand and performs all other activities with another is considered praiseworthy if he places [[Tefillin]] on the other hand in addition, however without making a bracha on the second [[Tefillin]]. This is also the ruling of Rabbi Eli Mansour http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=1101 </ref> | |||
#One who in the past performed all activities with his right hand but for whatever reason has lost use of it and now his left becomes stronger, should place Tefillin on the right arm.<ref> Mishna Brurah 27:22 </ref> | |||
# Even if someone's heart is on the right side, | # Even if someone's heart is on the right side (Dextrocardia), if he's right handed, he should still place Tefilin on the left arm.<ref>Halacha Brurah 27:4</ref> | ||
===Wrappings around the Hand=== | ===Wrappings around the Hand=== | ||
