[Avodah] Tefillin on Ch"M

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> See <http://www.aishdas.org/articles/tefillinChM.pdf> for the rest,
> including
> the topic of "os" on ch"m, tefillin beShabbos, etc...
>
> At the mesibah, which I happily attended, I teased RZL about it going into
> the
> next edition of The Dynamics of Dispute.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>

Some pointers:
Dr. Jacob [Ya'akov] Katz wrote a chapter on this on his work on Halcacha and
Kabbalah
Also see the Ikkar Tosfos YT at the end of Moe'd Katan for an involved
argument for not wearing Tefillin on ChhM.

Let's jsut say this, AFAIK Ashkenzim DID wear Tefillin on ChhM from the time
of the Rosh thru the time of the Rema w/o signifcant devation.  AIUI, the
rupture from this minhag Avos happened in the 18th Century.

The issue of Bracha was/is far more complex.
You see in shuls like Breuer's the Shatz says Bracha on Teillin OUT LOUD.
But as per Rema the bracha IS said, but only silently. {other poskim say to
not say it at all] but if you mimetically followed th Shatz you might assume
NOT to say was the minhag Ashkenaz. But this is not necesarily so because
the Minhag to say it silently would be hard to mimic, so the mimetic impact
would be minimzed in this mode.

Tangentially: it is possible that Hashem Sefasia was said by Shatz silently
and people did not hear it and therefore did not know it and assume it was
never said.

I guess getting back to Tefilin on ChhM MAYBE, just MAYBE people who DID
were Tefilin did so in an unusually inconspicuous way and this led to
confusion, just as silence did.


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