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==Who is obligated? Who is exempt?== | ==Who is obligated? Who is exempt?== | ||
# All men above the age of thirteen are required to put on tefillin daily. <ref> The Rambam (Sefer HaMitzvot Mitzvah Aseh 12 and 13) and Sefer HaChinuch (421) record this as a mitzvah that applies to every male individual even nowadays. Rambam there says based on the gemara in Menachot 44a that one who is obligated to wear tefillin but doesn't, transgresses eight commandments (4 for the hand and 4 for the head). </ref> | # All men above the age of thirteen are required to put on tefillin daily. <ref> The Rambam (Sefer HaMitzvot Mitzvah Aseh 12 and 13) and Sefer HaChinuch (421) record this as a mitzvah that applies to every male individual even nowadays. Rambam there says based on the gemara in Menachot 44a that one who is obligated to wear tefillin but doesn't, transgresses eight commandments (4 for the hand and 4 for the head). </ref> | ||
# The common minhag is that a minor wear Tefillin only 2 or 3 months before his [[Bar Mitzvah]].<ref>Kitzur S"A 10:24</ref> | |||
# Tefillin is a [[Mitzvah Aseh SheHaZman Grama]] (time bound mitzvah) and so women are exempt. Even though usually women are allowed to fulfill mitzvot from which they are exempt, by Tefillin it’s preferable that women do not fulfill this mitzvah. <ref> S”A and Rama 38:3, Mitzvat Nashim (pg 35). See Targum Yonatan Ben Uziel on Devarim 22:5 who includes a woman wearing Tefillin in the category of Lo Yehey Kli Gever Al Isha. </ref> | # Tefillin is a [[Mitzvah Aseh SheHaZman Grama]] (time bound mitzvah) and so women are exempt. Even though usually women are allowed to fulfill mitzvot from which they are exempt, by Tefillin it’s preferable that women do not fulfill this mitzvah. <ref> S”A and Rama 38:3, Mitzvat Nashim (pg 35). See Targum Yonatan Ben Uziel on Devarim 22:5 who includes a woman wearing Tefillin in the category of Lo Yehey Kli Gever Al Isha. </ref> | ||
# One who is shirtless cannot wear tefillin. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, who is obligated in tefillin and who is exempt, seif 2 </ref> | # One who is shirtless cannot wear tefillin. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, who is obligated in tefillin and who is exempt, seif 2 </ref> | ||
