[Avodah] Wrapping Tefillin in or out

[Simon Montagu]

On 10/29/07, cantorwolberg at cox.net <cantorwolberg at cox.net> wrote:
> Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer < > wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen a reason why Ashkenaz wraps tefillin coming in while Sfard wraps going out?
>
> I haven't seen a reason but I offer the following chidush:
>
> Wrapping the tefillin in is because it is towards the heart (b'chol l'vovcho).
> So then you ask: why do most wrap it going out? My answer would be that we are wrapping it away from our yetzer hara.
>
> So with that explanation, the best thing would be to wrap it in one day and out the other. :-)

I will never understand this terminology -- whichever way one wraps
the tefillin one is coming in half the time and going out the other
half! Last time I bought tefillin they asked me whether I wrapped
going in or out and I ended up with the straps the wrong way because
we were unable to find a common terminology.