[Avodah] Tefillin on Rosh Chodesh

[David Riceman]

David Riceman wrote:
> I tried to start
> with the more basic question of when people stopped wearing tefillin all 
> day, and started wearing them only for krias shma and shmoneh esrai.
I composed that post hurriedly yesterday.  Two quick addenda:

1.  All of those opinions cite concerns with guf naki or lack of 
concentration as a reason to minimize wearing tefillin.

2.  There's an intermediate position from the same era in Tosafos 
Berachos 44b s.v. "V'livnei Ma'arava" where he says that "our" custom is 
to wear tefillin till noon.  I hope to propose a speculative explanation 
in the next lengthy post, but meanwhile I'll observe that the custom of 
minimizing wearing tefillin was not universal at that point.

David Riceman