Putting On and Removing Tefillin: Difference between revisions

# Before the strap of the arm [[Tefillin]] is tightened, the blessing of להניח תפילין is said. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 25:8. The custom in Sefrou, Morocco, was to ''abstain'' from reciting a Beracha on Tefillin, but that was out of concern that their Tefillin weren't properly squared. (Magen Avot, Orach Chaim 25 fn. 19) See Rav Pe'alim 2 OC 2.</ref> If someone forgot to recite the blessing before tightening the arm [[Tefillin]] one should still recite the bracha, even if one has already placed one's head [[Tefillin]]. <Ref> Kaf Hachayim 25:49 </ref>

# Upon placement of the head [[Tefillin]], Sephardic and Hasidic authorities are of the opinion that the blessing on laying the head [[Tefillin]] is not necessary and the one blessing on laying the arm [[Tefillin]] is sufficient. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 25:5 </ref> Ashkenazim do recite a second blessing of על מצות תפילין on the head [[Tefillin]], before tightening it around the head‏. <ref> Rama 25:5, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of [[tefillin]], seif 3. Kaf Hachayim 25:40 writes that a Sephardi who hears the bracha on the [[Tefillin]] shel rosh is permitted to answer [[amen]] in his head. </ref>  It is also customary to add the phrase ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם וע‏ד because of the doubt as too the necessity of the bracha. <ref> Rama 25:5 </ref>

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