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HALACHA, HASHKAFA AND PARENTING

Can You Wear Tefillin Leather Into a Sanctified Room?

Can You Wear Tefillin Leather Into a Sanctified Room?

Part of Halacha, Hashkafa and Parenting · 5:30

A short halacha piece on the Rebbe's instruction for buttoning a garment, and whether tefillin leather needs to be covered before entering a room of kedusha.

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Buttoning the garment per the Rebbe’s instruction

inside, and then you button this like this, with a button inside. Usually usually there is a button on the inside. Huh? You go like this. You want this? How do you button? Make a button here. Ah, that's what the Rebbe said! That's what the Rebbe told him! קומען אהיים, זאגט מיר מיין מאמע, זאל מען צונייען א קנעפל דארט, יע, אדרבה, אזוי. And you and you sew it like that, and you button it like that. Okay. And it's this whole That's the Rebbe I saw the video. Before he What he said later, he had a mind to ask bracha v'hatzlacha, so With your when you have your hat, your jacket off, if you're With the with the with the You got to be very careful, yeah, not to He said b'shem Baal Shem Tov. Not to do what? That I did when I was a bachur. I heard it also, but I think that the Rebbe was not makpid on that. This should be open and this should be closed. That when you put on your gartel, you shouldn't put it over your sleeve. Yeah, definitely. That it's known b'shem Baal Shem Tov. Not over where? When you when you take off your when you take off half of your When you put on tefillin. And you don't do like You you wear you put your Oh, you put it on top, and you you have a gartel You put your hand You put your hand through until now When I put on tefillin, do I put in my sleeve and Is that what you're saying? Yeah, throw it right. After this shell No, but what do you do with So, where is your sleeve hanging? Behind you? It's just hanging. Over your over your shoulder? I guess so. Okay, but if you have a gartel, you can't do that. What do you So, what you do So, your sleeve is off. Oh. So, then what you when you put on the gartel, so they say b'shem Baal Shem Tov that you shouldn't put on the gartel over your sleeve. Where'd you hear that? I heard it from alte chasidim in the mikvah. Okay, so why do you do it? Because I don't think the Rebbe was makpid. Oh, the Rebbe was makpid. So, you don't think it's bichlal No, like I think the Rebbe, when he did it, he covered he covered he covered his sleeve. Covered the sleeve. Okay, so You can't be 100% sure. זיי מאכט זיינע ענינים. I think the Rebbe was not makpid on this. Don't we have pictures of the Rebbe with It's hard, picture is hard to see. The sleeve is black, and the tallis cover, the whole thing is black. It's hard to see. It's Maybe you could find a video to see it. In the picture you can't see, maybe in the video you see when he moves. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער, הרי תפילין דמחופין עור, it

Gemara on covering tefillin leather before entering the sanctuary

says if you have if you have פרשיות בעצמן, something of Torah, so you're not allowed to walk into בית הכסא with it. But if it's covered with leather, covered with a cover, you're allowed to walk in. פרעגט די גמרא, הרי תפילין דמחופין עור, תפילין is a parashah, and then it's covered on the outside with a leather, ותניא we learned, הנכנס לבית הכסא, חולץ תפילין בריחוק ארבע אמות ונכנס, you have to take off your tefillin ארבע אמות before, and you go in. So you can't walk in. And why? It's covered! The batim itself has a די Gemara answers, התם משום שי״ן, the batim itself has a שי״ן on it. אמר אביי, Abaye said, שי״ן של תפילין, הלכה למשה מסיני. To have a שי״ן on the בית, halacha leMoshe miSinai. Because בעצ- Yeah, if you look in the Rambam, be'emet it's, because of the שי״ן. Yeah. What about the פרשיות inside? Oh, פרשיות are covered. That's the thing that So the בית is part of the part of the We To us, we're so used to tefillin. Tefillin, this is tefillin. Tefillin are the פרשיות. You have the פרשיות, the ד׳ פרשיות, and the Torah says you have to take your ד׳ פרשיות and put it into a box. So, בעצם The sugya we are learning right now, if it's a long sword, it's not considered כלי בשעת מלאכתו, there is only one cover. Okay. כלי בשעת מלאכתו. And these And that's they use it as one There is one cover. use that as one and cover another one? We spoke about it last night, so But to use that as one and put another cover, would be good for your tefillin? Yeah. Wouldn't If you use the cover of the בית, the בית itself the בית itself is not In order to go in with the בית, you have to have two coverings over the בית. Because of the שי״ן? So why does it say Why does it say about the the גלימא וכמתרא over there in in Berachot? It doesn't say, but you put a גלימא וכמתרא, and so it's, and it's shine, fine. Because of the שי״ן. You're not on the tefillin, just just You have that besides the בית, but the question is, why? And he says, because the בית has a שי״ן, and the שי״ן is halacha leMoshe miSinai. אמר אביי, דל״ת, דל״ת של תפילין, הלכה למשה מסיני. Oh, that's who is giving a terutz why it needs it. Yeah. Here it's different. Why? Because you have a שי״ן on the תפילין של ראש, the דל״ת is also halacha leMoshe miSinai. Is that because of the mitzvah? Where is the דל״ת? Huh? Is that because of the mitzvah? No, because it has a קדושה. Der Eibershter said it's not just it's not just to cover the פרשיות. Normally we thought tefillin is the פרשיות, the Torah said cover the פרשיות in such a way. Anything with a with a kedushah, you have to have covered twice. Right, right.

Kedushah issues: what may be worn in the Beit HaKnesset

Can you go to the bathroom in the Beis Hamikdash? Does the bathroom have kedushah? I don't think kedushah, and a mitzvah is is is it's not kedushah, it's חפצא של קדושה. You could even walk in talis katan, it's also which is a mitzvah and it and and it's it's not תשמישי קדושה, it's תשמישי מצוה. Which means you can't walk with a talis in the בית הכסא, because it's מיוחד לתפלה, that's all. You can't walk in with a kittel into בית הכסא. What about a gartel? Or any any A gartel. Not Is there any kedushah in a kittel? Any kedushah in a gartel? We use it for davenen. Because it's a מיוחד לתפלה. Same thing with a טלית, מיוחד לתפלה. But talis katan, it's not מיוחד לתפלה, you could walk in. If a person would בעצם wear talis all day, you could walk in, too. Okay, let's just finish and we'll be If you only wear a hat for davenen, you also shouldn't walk in with that. You don't walk in with hat? Yeah, if it's מיוחד, that's pashut. Abaye said that the ד' of the tefillin, which is the back of the the קשר, is also הלכה למשה מסיני. What about the של יד? This is only של ראש. What about של יד? אמר אביי, יו''ד של תפילין הלכה למשה מסיני. The יו''ד is also... What, what could what could be wrong with this? The only thing that'd be right, you think that I should write it's wrong, but di zaytes, indermit iz nisht gehakt געהאקט. The

Final note on returning tefillin parts

both sides? Yeah. Ah, you should return them.

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