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# Some have the minhag to keep their tefillin on during a brit milah <ref> Mishna Berura 25:55 based on Magen Avraham OC 25:28 and Shach YD 265:24. Rabbi Chaim Jachter http://koltorah.org/ravj/Minhagim_of_Brit_Milah_1.html testifies that this is the minhag of Rav Reuven and Rav Dovid Feinstein, although Rabbi Jachter himself says that the minhag seems to be that only the father and sandek wear it throughout the bris. </ref> while some people remove it before the brit. <ref> Yalkut Yosef p.895, Aruch Hashulchan YD 265:38. Kaf Hachayim 25:92 writes that the minhag is for the father, mohel, and sandak to leave their tefillin on for the brit. </ref> | # Some have the minhag to keep their tefillin on during a brit milah <ref> Mishna Berura 25:55 based on Magen Avraham OC 25:28 and Shach YD 265:24. Rabbi Chaim Jachter http://koltorah.org/ravj/Minhagim_of_Brit_Milah_1.html testifies that this is the minhag of Rav Reuven and Rav Dovid Feinstein, although Rabbi Jachter himself says that the minhag seems to be that only the father and sandek wear it throughout the bris. </ref> while some people remove it before the brit. <ref> Yalkut Yosef p.895, Aruch Hashulchan YD 265:38. Kaf Hachayim 25:92 writes that the minhag is for the father, mohel, and sandak to leave their tefillin on for the brit. </ref> | ||
==Removing Tefillin== | ==Removing Tefillin== | ||
# One should wait until at least the kedusha of uva litzion before removing their tefillin. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 25:13 | # One should wait until at least the kedusha of uva litzion before removing their tefillin. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 25:13, Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 31 </ref> Preferably though one should wait until after al ken in aleinu lishabeach. <ref> Arizal in Shaar Kavanot derush 5 tefillin, Ben Ish Chai Parashat Chayei Sara: halacha 10. </ref> There is Kabbalistic significance in waiting until the mourner's kaddish that takes place after alenu leshabeach to take off one's tefilin. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 30 </ref> | ||
# Ideally, one should learn a little bit of torah with his tefillin on after prayers. <ref> Arizal quoted by Ben Ish Chai Chayei Sara 11, Chida in machazik beracha siman 25. </ref> | # Ideally, one should learn a little bit of torah with his tefillin on after prayers. <ref> Arizal quoted by Ben Ish Chai Chayei Sara 11, Chida in machazik beracha siman 25. </ref> | ||
# Remove tefillin as follows: standing or sitting remove finger, hand, and two windings of forearm. Then stand to take off shel Rosh and sit to take off rest of shel yad. <ref> Ben Ish Chai Chayei Sara: halacha 10. </ref> | # Remove tefillin as follows: standing or sitting remove finger, hand, and two windings of forearm. Then stand to take off shel Rosh and sit to take off rest of shel yad. <ref> Ben Ish Chai Chayei Sara: halacha 10. </ref> | ||
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== Process of Putting Tefillin On== | == Process of Putting Tefillin On== | ||
# Right handed people wear the tefillin on their left arm and left handed people place it on their right arm. Whether you are right handed or left handed is determined by which hand you write with. Someone who is completely ambidextrous should place it on the left arm. <ref> S"A 27:1, 27:6 based on gemara Menachot 37a. Halacha Berura 27:21 writes that someone who writes with one hand and performs all other activities with another is praiseworthy if he places on the other hand in addition without a beracha. 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 it on the right arm. <ref> Mishna Berura 27:22 </ref> | # Right handed people wear the tefillin on their left arm and left handed people place it on their right arm. Whether you are right handed or left handed is determined by which hand you write with. Someone who is completely ambidextrous should place it on the left arm. <ref> S"A 27:1, 27:6 based on gemara Menachot 37a. Halacha Berura 27:21 writes that someone who writes with one hand and performs all other activities with another is praiseworthy if he places on the other hand in addition without a beracha. 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 it on the right arm. <ref> Mishna Berura 27:22 </ref> | ||
# The Tefillin of the arm is put on before the Tefillin of the head. <ref> Ben Ish Chai Vayera Halacha 6 says that this order has great kabbalistic significance as well. Chazon Ovadia Chelek 2 page 209 says that the order relates to the idea of naase vinishma (Shemot 24:7, that the Jews accepted to observe the commandments and only afterwards understand them, because the tefillin shel yad represent our actions and the shel rosh represent our understanding </ref> Therefore one should be careful to arrange the Tefillin in the case so that | # The Tefillin of the arm is put on before the Tefillin of the head. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 18. Ben Ish Chai Vayera Halacha 6 says that this order has great kabbalistic significance as well. Chazon Ovadia Chelek 2 page 209 says that the order relates to the idea of naase vinishma (Shemot 24:7, that the Jews accepted to observe the commandments and only afterwards understand them, because the tefillin shel yad represent our actions and the shel rosh represent our understanding </ref> Therefore one should be careful to arrange the Tefillin in the case so that one takes the Tefillin shel yad first. Furthermore, it is proper to keep the tefilin shel rosh in one's bag or at least still wrapped until one is finished donning the tefilin shel yad. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 20 </ref> | ||
# However, if one did take the Tefillin Shel Rosh first one must pass up that Tefillin and put on the Tefillin Shel yad first. <ref> S"A 25:6, Kaf Hachayim 25:42 </ref> | # However, if one did take the Tefillin Shel Rosh first one must pass up that Tefillin and put on the Tefillin Shel yad first. <ref> S"A 25:6, Kaf Hachayim 25:42 </ref> | ||
# The sephardic minhag is to place the tefillin shel yad while seated and the tefillin shel rosh while standing, <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 4:36, Chesed La'alafim 25:4. </ref> and remain standing while wrapping the tefillin around the hand. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 25:68, Chesed La'alafim 25:11 </ref> A sephardi who prays in an ashkenazic minyan should place his tefillin according to sephardic minhag. <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 4:36 </ref> | # The sephardic minhag is to place the tefillin shel yad while seated and the tefillin shel rosh while standing, <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 4:36, Chesed La'alafim 25:4. </ref> and remain standing while wrapping the tefillin around the hand. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 25:68, Chesed La'alafim 25:11, Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 18 </ref> A sephardi who prays in an ashkenazic minyan should place his tefillin according to sephardic minhag. <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 4:36 </ref> | ||
# Sephardim have the custom to recite the passages of "kadesh li" and vihaya ki yiveacha," two of the four passages in tefillin after putting them on. <ref> Od Yosef Chaim Vayera 25 </ref> | # Sephardim have the custom to recite the passages of "kadesh li" and vihaya ki yiveacha," two of the four passages in tefillin after putting them on. <ref> Od Yosef Chaim Vayera 25 </ref> | ||
# The beracha of shehecheyanu is not recited the first time someone puts on tefillin. <ref> Chida in Machazik Beracha 22, Kaf Hachaim Palachi 10:8 based on Tosafot Menachot 75, agianst the tosefta Berachot 6:10 which says that when one makes tzitzit or tefillin, to make a shehecheyanu which is brought down by the Rambam Hilchot Berachot 11:9. However, the Biur Halacha 22:1 and Kaf Hachayim 22:2 both suggest to put on a new garment and say the shehecheyanu on that immediately before putting on tefillin for the first time, while having in mind for the tefillin, as well, to cover the safek. </ref> | # The beracha of shehecheyanu is not recited the first time someone puts on tefillin. <ref> Chida in Machazik Beracha 22, Kaf Hachaim Palachi 10:8 based on Tosafot Menachot 75, agianst the tosefta Berachot 6:10 which says that when one makes tzitzit or tefillin, to make a shehecheyanu which is brought down by the Rambam Hilchot Berachot 11:9. However, the Biur Halacha 22:1 and Kaf Hachayim 22:2 both suggest to put on a new garment and say the shehecheyanu on that immediately before putting on tefillin for the first time, while having in mind for the tefillin, as well, to cover the safek. </ref> | ||
==Brachot of Tefillin== | ==Brachot of Tefillin== | ||
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# It is also customary to add the phrase ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד because of the doubt as too the necessity of the beracha. <ref> Rama 25:5 </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 beracha. <ref> Rama 25:5 </ref> | ||
# If one removes his tefillin to go to the bathroom he recites a new beracha upon putting them back on. <ref> Sh"t Yabia Omer 8:2 </ref> | # If one removes his tefillin to go to the bathroom he recites a new beracha upon putting them back on. <ref> Sh"t Yabia Omer 8:2 </ref> | ||
# It is prohibited to recite a beracha on stolen tefilin, including tefilin that one bought from a thief. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 30 </ref> | |||
# If one removes his tefilin and puts on a different pair, he recites a beracha upon donning the other pair. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 23 </ref> | |||
# If one removed his tefilin without the intention of putting them back on and then decides to put them back on, he recites another beracha when putting them back on. However, if one removed his tefilin with the intention of putting them back, he does not recites another beracha when putting them back on. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 10, laws of the donning of tefilin, seif 21 </ref> | |||
==Where the Tefillin are placed== | ==Where the Tefillin are placed== | ||
