<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">R' Micha wrote: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">Shel yad is first because it's first in the pasuq "uqeshartem le'os al<br>yadekha, vehayu letotafos bein einekha. That's the reason in Menachos 36a</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">This I already had learned and knew, but I wanted to give my own chiddush. When you</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">say: "Before we use that strength, we better think!" you're absolutely right. However, I</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">did not say "USE" that strength, my exact words were: "Before we can even think, we must POSSESS </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">physical strength...." There's a big difference between "Possessing" and "Using." You must first</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">POSSESS before you can USE.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">The second point is: following the reason in Menachos 36a, it explains why the shel yad goes on</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">first and then the shel rosh. But it doesn't explain why when removing them, you do just the opposite.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">Kol tuv.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></body></html>