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# The minimum length of the strap for the tefillin of the head is at least enough to go around the head plus two [[Tefachim]] on each side going down. <ref> Mishna Brurah 27:44 </ref> The custom is that the right one be longer than the left one and that both go past the midsection. <ref> Mishna Brurah 27:41 </ref> | # The minimum length of the strap for the tefillin of the head is at least enough to go around the head plus two [[Tefachim]] on each side going down. <ref> Mishna Brurah 27:44 </ref> The custom is that the right one be longer than the left one and that both go past the midsection. <ref> Mishna Brurah 27:41 </ref> | ||
# The straps should be colored black. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, place of donning and how to don, seif 24, S"A 33:3 and Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the straps, seif 3 say that this is a halacha limoshe misinai. Mishna Brurah 33:19 says they should be as black as a raven and adds that one should be especially careful at the spot where one tightens the tefillin as the paint there wears off easily. </ref> | # The straps should be colored black. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, place of donning and how to don, seif 24, S"A 33:3 and Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the straps, seif 3 say that this is a halacha limoshe misinai. Mishna Brurah 33:19 says they should be as black as a raven and adds that one should be especially careful at the spot where one tightens the tefillin as the paint there wears off easily. </ref> | ||
# The coloring should be done for the sake of the mitzva of tefillin. <ref> S"A 33:4, Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the straps, seif 2. Rama writes that they are not even kosher bidieved if they are not colored black for the sake of the mitzva. Biur Halacha 33:4 "pasul" says they should be repainted with the proper concentration. </ref> | |||
# The coloring can be done by a women, or a child if the child is supervised by an adult who instructs him to paint it for its sake. <ref> Mishna Brurah 33:23 </ref> | |||
# The coloring can be done at night. <ref> Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg quoted in Mivakshei Torah volume 4 page 415. </ref> | |||
# One should ensure that the black of the straps is facing outward. <ref> S"A 27:11. Mishna Brurah 27:38 says that one really only has to make sure that the part around the head and around the arm muscle has the black on the outside but it looks nicer to make sure the whole thing is that way. </ref> | # One should ensure that the black of the straps is facing outward. <ref> S"A 27:11. Mishna Brurah 27:38 says that one really only has to make sure that the part around the head and around the arm muscle has the black on the outside but it looks nicer to make sure the whole thing is that way. </ref> | ||
# The minimum width of the Tefillin straps is the width of a barley kernel, which is approximately a centimeter. <ref>Kitzur S"A 10:13 writes that the minimum width of the Tefillin straps is the width of a barley kernel. Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (comments on Kitzur S"A 10:16) writes that the size of a barley is one centimeter.</ref> | # The minimum width of the Tefillin straps is the width of a barley kernel, which is approximately a centimeter. <ref>Kitzur S"A 10:13 writes that the minimum width of the Tefillin straps is the width of a barley kernel. Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (comments on Kitzur S"A 10:16) writes that the size of a barley is one centimeter.</ref> | ||
