[Avodah] tefillin in the right place

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:

> of Shut Divrei Chaim opened to the Teshuvah which refers to looking in
> a mirror to adjust one's Tefillin as a "custom of ignoramuses."
> Ha-Griz said to the people there: "I will use a Chasidic story (since
> the Divrei Chaim was Chasidic, while he was a Mitnaged). Reb Moshe
> Leib Sasober

Sosover.

FWIW, the Alter Rebbe was once given a silver snuff box as a present.
He said that he had one sense that was not controlled by taavos, and
now he should deliberately cultivate one for it?!  So he removed the
box's lid, and used it as a mirror to adjust his tefillin.

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