[Avodah] Tefillin and Osos

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:08:53PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: So where in Hazal is [arba minnim or matzah] an os to undue the tefillin
: obligation [on ChhM]?"
: I think he means excluding the Zohar.

http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/tefillinONmoed.htm

When we bounced this back privately, RRW noted:
> Beniddan diddan the missing piece is the idea of removing tefillin
> whilst picking up arba minnim

He asked me to modify his post accordingly, but it was too late.

My greatgrandfather explained it from the connection between writing
tefillin. Since there is a machloqes about writing on ch"m bichlal, the
presence of a gemara saying one can write tefillin on ch"m, implying
it's not hachanah, implying tefillin are worn on ch"m, is simply one
side of the known machloqes.

(The same linkage is why my father sheyichyeh wears tefillin on his
right hand, even though writing is the only thing for which he's a lefty.)

My grandfather a"h stopped writing my mother shetichyeh on ch"m when he
moved to Israel. Since minhag Yisral is not to wear tefillin, and his
father linked that to not writing, he stopped writing.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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