[Avodah] Tefillin once per lifetime?

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 06:27:49AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
: R' Brian Wiener and I asked for more details, and RMB responded:

Actually, I responded specifically to Brian, who didn't just ask for
clarification. He asked:
> [Me:]
>> How long must a man wear tefillin? Well, in the ideal it should be
>> whenever he is awake and not doing manual labor. In RASHI'S DAY, FEW
>> WORE TEFILLIN AT ALL. Today men wear it for davening, but only in order
>> to say Shema without looking like liars...

> Please elaborate on the highlighted portion.

So I took a detour to explain about how in Rashi's day a few tefillin
at all.

Which explains why:
: I have not seen R' Saadia or the Semag, but I did take a quick look at
: Tosfos and the BY/KB. Neither one says anything even remotely similar to
: Tefillin being a chiyuv only once...

More than that, R Saadia (on parashas Bo) questions wearing tefillin
as yuharah. Which does get us back to the original question, although
I hadn't originally intended to. However, who would ever call it yuhara
to fulfill an obligation everyone else was neglecting?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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