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# Nothing can interpose between the Tefillin or the area where the straps wrap around the arm and one’s body, however, in the area of the knot one may have an interposition. <Ref>S”A 27:4, Mishna Brurah 27:16 </ref>
# Nothing can interpose between the Tefillin or the area where the straps wrap around the arm and one’s body, however, in the area of the knot one may have an interposition. <Ref>S”A 27:4, Mishna Brurah 27:16 </ref>
==Physical Separation/Chatzitza==
==Physical Separation/Chatzitza==
Any foreign substance between the head and the tfillin shel rosh, is considered a separation. <ref> SA 27:4 quoting the Sh"ut Harosh 3:4. Shut Harashba 3:282 says there is no such thing as a separation for the tfillin shel rosh, only shel yad. </ref>
# Any foreign substance between the head and the Tefillin shel rosh, is considered a separation. <ref> SA 27:4 quoting the Sh"ut Harosh 3:4. Shut Harashba 3:282 says there is no such thing as a separation for the tfillin shel rosh, only shel yad. </ref>
#Loose dirt <ref> Mishna Berura 27:14 </ref>, water in your hair<ref> Shaare Teshuva 27:6 says one should make sure to dry his hair well if he wet it before putting on the tfillin, both because it could damage the tfillin, and because the water itself could be considered a separation.</ref>, long hair <ref> Machatzit Hashekel 27 and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 10:6 say that although short hair would not be a problem, excessively long hair could be. Mishna Berura 27:14-15 agrees to this, and says that it also could be hard to keep the tfillin lined up between the eyes and at the right height with long hair. Aruch Hashulchan 27:14 as well as Rav Ovadia (Yechave Daat 2:2/22) say that really long hair is not such a big problem and you have on who to rely. The Aruch Hashulchan says only hair moved from another place would be problematic. </ref> are all potentially problematic.
# Loose dirt <ref> Mishna Berura 27:14 </ref>, water in your hair<ref> Shaare Teshuva 27:6 says one should make sure to dry his hair well if he wet it before putting on the tfillin, both because it could damage the tfillin, and because the water itself could be considered a separation.</ref>, long hair are all potentially problematic.<ref> Machatzit Hashekel 27 and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 10:6 say that although short hair would not be a problem, excessively long hair could be. Mishna Berura 27:14-15 agrees to this, and says that it also could be hard to keep the tfillin lined up between the eyes and at the right height with long hair. Aruch Hashulchan 27:14 as well as Rav Ovadia (Yechave Daat 2:2/22) say that really long hair is not such a big problem and you have on who to rely. The Aruch Hashulchan says only hair moved from another place would be problematic. </ref>
==Proper conduct while wearing Tefillin==
==Proper conduct while wearing Tefillin==
# It is forbidden to laugh or come to lightheartedness while wearing Tefillin because it remove one’s concentration from the Tefillin altogether. <Ref> Chaye Adam 14:15 and  Mishna Brurah 44:3 </ref>  
# It is forbidden to laugh or come to lightheartedness while wearing Tefillin because it remove one’s concentration from the Tefillin altogether. <Ref> Chaye Adam 14:15 and  Mishna Brurah 44:3 </ref>