Tefillin הלכות תפילין
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25Laws of TefillinSiman 25 · 95 seifim
- 1.It is said in the Torah, 'and you shall…
- 2.One must be very careful with this mitzvah, for…
- 3.Even though it is not explicitly stated in the…
- 4.Nowadays it is permitted to count, as part of…
- 5.One who does not observe Torah and mitzvot, and…
- 6.Soldiers abroad who are not permitted to put on…
- 7.The reward of one who fulfills the mitzvah of…
- 8.Of everyone who is careful in putting on tefillin…
- 9.One who is exceedingly careful with the mitzvah of…
- 10.Therefore one must be precise, at the time of…
- 11.Lechatchilah it is preferable to take a single piece…
- 12.One who finds tefillin and does not know who…
- 13.Tefillin that were bought from an expert scribe, and…
- 14.It is a custom of piety to check one's…
- 15.If he handed the tefillin over for checking, and…
- 16.A minor who has reached the age of training,…
- 17.Sellers of tefillin and mezuzot should be warned that…
- 18.If he borrowed beautiful tefillin from his fellow, and…
- 19.Some say that the mitzvah of 'this is my…
- 20.One who forgot to put on tefillin for one…
- 21.A person fulfills the obligation of tefillin from the…
- 22.If, by saying Leshem Yichud, the person is aroused…
- 23.One first wraps himself in tzitzit, and afterward puts…
- 24.Even if the tallit's obligation is only mi'derabbanan, such…
- 25.And likewise if he wraps himself in a borrowed…
- 26.Those who keep the tefillin bag together with the…
- 27.One who took the tallit in his hand and…
- 28.If he erred and put on tefillin before wrapping…
- 29.If he transgressed and encountered the tefillin before wrapping…
- 30.If he has no valid tallit to wrap himself…
- 31.One who cannot afford to buy both tzitzit and…
- 32.If he needed both tefillin and a mezuzah, and…
- 33.If he has Rashi tefillin, and wishes to buy…
- 34.One who obtained a tallit and tefillin one moment…
- 35.One who has neither tzitzit nor tefillin — some…
- 36.The Rosh would recite Birkot HaShachar up to the…
- 37.One who has the ability to come to the…
- 38.The tefillin must be on him at the time…
- 39.And likewise, at the time he reads shnayim mikra…
- 40.Those who rise late in the morning, and hurry…
- 41.One who has no tefillin at the moment, and…
- 42.One who has tefillin and prays with the tzibbur,…
- 43.One who does not have Rashi tefillin, but has…
- 44.One who has a Rashi tefillah shel yad, and…
- 45.Since the reason for the mitzvah of tefillin is…
- 46.He should put on the tefillah shel yad first,…
- 47.The wording of the berachah is: 'who has sanctified…
- 48.If he erred and recited over the tefillah shel…
- 49.He should recite 'lehaniach' with a kamatz under the…
- 50.If he encountered the shel rosh first, he must…
- 51.If only the tefillah shel rosh was before him,…
- 52.One must recite the berachah on the tefillah shel…
- 53.If he forgot and did not recite the berachah…
- 54.He should recite only one berachah for both, since…
- 55.It is forbidden to interrupt with speech between the…
- 56.One who put on the tefillah shel yad, and…
- 57.One who put on the tefillah shel yad, and…
- 58.One who hears a Kaddish or a Kedushah between…
- 59.One who recited the berachah 'lehaniach tefillin' over the…
- 60.If, after reciting the berachah 'lehaniach tefillin,' he hears…
- 61.One who heard from his fellow the berachah 'lehaniach…
- 62.Even though it is a mitzvah min hamuvchar that…
- 63.Some say that one who hears the berachah on…
- 64.Lechatchilah one should not interrupt between putting on the…
- 65.Therefore, one should not pull down his shirt sleeve…
- 66.Lechatchilah one should be stringent not to gesture with…
- 67.If he does not know whether the measure of…
- 68.One who erred and began to recite a berachah…
- 69.Our custom, following the Kabbalah, is to put on…
- 70.A Sephardi who prays among Ashkenazim should put on…
- 71.But in any case, putting on the tefillah shel…
- 72.Even though according to the law it would be…
- 73.At the time he winds the strap on his…
- 74.Some have the custom of covering their arm with…
- 75.According to the plain sense, it is good that…
- 76.Our custom is to wind seven complete windings on…
- 77.Our custom is that the strap of the tefillah…
- 78.Some have the custom of winding the strap around…
- 79.After he finishes winding on the arm, he passes…
- 80.One who does not have the finger on which…
- 81.The black side of the straps must face outward,…
- 82.If he found that the strap of the shel…
- 83.He should let the straps of the tefillah shel…
- 84.At the time of the berachah and the putting…
- 85.One who recited the berachah on his tefillin and…
- 86.If the strap snapped while he was putting on…
- 87.If he puts on tefillin several times a day,…
- 88.If the tefillin shifted out of their place during…
- 89.Some say that the tefillin must belong to him,…
- 90.And likewise one who borrows tefillin from his fellow…
- 91.There is one who wrote that with tefillin, the…
- 92.One who gave tefillin to his fellow as a…
- 93.A non-Jew who found the tefillin of a Jew,…
- 94.If he did not put on a tallit or…
- 95.One who had neither tallit nor tefillin, and began…
26One Who Has Only One Tefillah (Box)Siman 26 · 4 seifim
- 1.Tefillin shel yad and tefillin shel rosh are two…
- 2.One who has only one tefillah puts on the…
- 3.If he puts on the tefillah shel yad, he…
- 4.If he has one tefillah, he should put on…
27The Place and Manner of Putting Them OnSiman 27 · 22 seifim
- 1.The place for putting on the tefillin shel yad…
- 2.The place for putting on the tefillin shel rosh…
- 3.Since many of the common people are not careful…
- 4.It is permitted to look in a mirror in…
- 5.If part of the tefillin shel rosh resting on…
- 6.The correct custom is that the yud of the…
- 7.The correct custom is to arrange that the ma'avarta,…
- 8.Since it is said in the Torah, 'as a…
- 9.One who has a wound on his arm, and…
- 10.And a baal teshuvah who has a tattoo on…
- 11.It is permitted to put on the tefillin shel…
- 12.One who grows the hair of his head down…
- 13.One who has a bandage on his head, and…
- 14.One whose hair has entirely fallen out, and who…
- 15.One who suffers hair loss on his head, and…
- 16.Tefillin whose titura was coated on the inside with…
- 17.It is a well-established halachah that one must put…
- 18.One who writes with his left hand, but performs…
- 19.A young man who was accustomed to writing and…
- 20.A left-handed person who does not have tefillin with…
- 21.A sick person whose right hand is completely paralyzed…
- 22.An amputee who has no hand, only the arm…
28Removing Tefillin, and Not Diverting One's AttentionSiman 28 · 19 seifim
- 1.A person is obligated to touch his tefillin every…
- 2.When he says, in keriat shema, 'and you shall…
- 3.The custom of the world is not to remove…
- 4.Precise individuals have the custom of not removing the…
- 5.On a day when there is a Torah scroll…
- 6.On Rosh Chodesh, the custom is to remove the…
- 7.One who forgot to remove the tefillin and prayed…
- 8.In a beit haknesset where several minyanim are praying,…
- 9.One who erred in the Shacharit prayer of Rosh…
- 10.Some have the custom that the father of the…
- 11.The custom is to read, while wearing tefillin, the…
- 12.It is good not to remove the tefillin every…
- 15.It is good to remove the tefillin with the…
- 16.The custom of the Sages is to kiss the…
- 17.He should not hold the straps and roll up…
- 18.When he folds the tefillin, he should not wind…
- 19.One who removes the tefillin and does not fold…
- 20.After removing the tefillah shel rosh, he should place…
- 21.It is good not to remove the tefillah shel…
29Not Reciting a Berachah When Removing TefillinSiman 29 · 1 seifim
Read this siman →30The Time for Putting Them OnSiman 30 · 12 seifim
- 1.The time for putting them on in the morning…
- 2.The Sages forbade putting on tefillin at night, as…
- 3.But in any case, it is permitted to write…
- 4.The end of the time for putting on tefillin…
- 5.One who put on tefillin during the day, and…
- 6.One who did not put on tefillin all day,…
- 7.One who travels on Sunday from the United States…
- 8.There is great sanctity in tefillin, and one must…
- 9.Some say that diversion of attention with regard to…
- 10.At the time of the tefillah, when a person…
- 11.Therefore, one who proofreads a Torah scroll to prepare…
- 12.One who is traveling to the beit haknesset, or…
31Tefillin on Shabbat, Yom Tov, and Chol HaMoedSiman 31 · 8 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to put on tefillin on Shabbat,…
- 2.One does not put on tefillin on the second…
- 3.A resident of the Land of Israel who goes…
- 4.However, emissaries of institutions who are abroad for a…
- 5.Even one who is not circumcised should not put…
- 6.The widespread custom is not to put on tefillin…
- 7.One who prays in an Ashkenazi beit haknesset, where…
- 8.One who travels in the desert and does not…
32Errors Found in Tefillin and a Sefer TorahSiman 32 · 81 seifim
- 1.The mitzvah of tefillin is that one write four…
- 2.Lechatchilah, one should be careful to write all the…
- 3.Before he begins writing, it is proper that he…
- 4.In tefillin and mezuzot, the letter dalet of the…
- 5.In the tefillah shel rosh, each parashah should be…
- 6.In the tefillah shel yad, he writes the four…
- 7.He should write them with black ink, whether it…
- 8.If he wrote the parshiyot with valid ink, and…
- 9.Letters of Torah scrolls and mezuzot over which a…
- 10.A Torah scroll in which an error was found…
- 11.No letter may touch another; rather, each letter must…
- 12.He must write with his right hand, even if…
- 13.Reuven, who does not know how to write in…
- 14.A scribe who is completely left-handed, who does all…
- 15.Tefillin do not require ruled lines, but in any…
- 16.One should not rule with lead, since the place…
- 17.It is a halachah leMoshe miSinai that tefillin must…
- 18.The parchment must be processed with gall-nuts or with…
- 19.If a non-Jew processed it lishmah, with an adult…
- 20.The parchment must be from the hide of a…
- 21.A Torah scroll in which a small hole was…
- 22.Tefillin written on coated parchment — even though they…
- 23.And likewise, a Torah scroll written on coated parchment…
- 24.A Torah scroll of some of the Yemenites, in…
- 25.If a drop of ink fell into a letter,…
- 26.Torah scrolls and Megillat Esther scrolls that have recently…
- 27.The practice that has developed nowadays of writing Torah…
- 28.If he erred and wrote a dalet instead of…
- 29.If a drop of ink fell into a letter,…
- 30.Letters in a Torah scroll or tefillin in which…
- 31.Letters at the end of a word, such as…
- 32.A Torah scroll whose letters have reddened with age…
- 33.At the beginning of the writing of each of…
- 34.A scribe who was writing mezuzot, and wrote the…
- 35.One must be careful, when about to write the…
- 36.The Name 'Beit El,' when it appears in a…
- 37.When he writes the Name of Hashem, he should…
- 38.One must be precise regarding deficiencies and excesses of…
- 39.A Torah scroll in which it is written 'vayihyu…
- 40.Regarding the writing of 'petzua daka,' our custom is…
- 41.It is good to test the quill before beginning…
- 42.He should be careful, before writing each divine Name,…
- 43.Lechatchilah, one should write Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot…
- 44.If he found that a letter was missing from…
- 45.The scribe must have before him another book from…
- 46.The letters must be in the form transmitted to…
- 47.If part of a letter resembles a different letter,…
- 48.A letter that was written correctly, but which, due…
- 49.There is no invalidation of 'not in their proper…
- 50.A letter alef whose yud was written in the…
- 51.And likewise, a lamed whose upper vav was written…
- 52.And likewise it should be validated if the vav…
- 53.And the same law applies if he wrote the…
- 54.Tefillin in which some of the letters lamed were…
- 55.Everything about showing the shape of a letter to…
- 56.Tefillin in which the head of a lamed on…
- 57.Regarding calling a child to read the letter, the…
- 58.When asking the child about the doubtful letter, one…
- 59.A scribe who left a blank space, the width…
- 60.Lechatchilah, one should be concerned for the words of…
- 61.One who wrote 'yud-heh-vav' of the Name Havayah should…
- 62.A word suspended between one line and the next…
- 63.A Torah scroll in which a missing or extra…
- 64.When a case is found of two letters stuck…
- 65.Letters that spread out due to the moisture of…
- 66.If one letter became stuck to another, whether before…
- 67.Tefillin whose parshiyot were written in Ashkenazi script are…
- 68.However, one must be precise that the parshiyot written…
- 69.Tefillin in which the right-side yuds of the tzadi…
- 70.It is a mitzvah min hamuvchar, lechatchilah, that in…
- 71.Torah scrolls in which part of the letters were…
- 72.If, in a Torah scroll written in Sephardic script,…
- 73.Even one who wears tefillin written in Sephardic script…
- 74.A scribe who proofreads a Torah scroll, and corrects…
- 75.If a separation is found in the letters of…
- 76.Whenever the gap and separation in a letter is…
- 77.Hollow letters, meaning that the scribe wrote the ink…
- 78.One may receive an aliyah to the Torah scrolls…
- 79.According to the essential law, there is no obligation…
- 80.A congregation that has, in their beit haknesset, a…
- 81.A Torah scroll in which three errors were found…
+Writing a Sefer TorahWriting a Sefer Torah · 13 seifim
- 1.It is a positive commandment upon every man of…
- 2.No berachah is recited over the mitzvah of writing…
- 3.One who writes a Sefer Torah himself is greater…
- 4.It is a mitzvah to beautify oneself in mitzvot…
- 5.One who knows how to write a Sefer Torah…
- 6.One who receives a valid Sefer Torah as a…
- 7.It is permitted to purchase a Sefer Torah with…
- 8.Some say women are not obligated in the mitzvah…
- 9.In many places it is customary that when a…
- 10.The custom of many people joining together for the…
- 11.One who proofreads and corrects a Sefer Torah, even…
- 12.The residents of a city may compel one another…
- 13.One who instructed before his death that a Sefer…
+Repairing Tefillin and Their StrapsSiman 32 (continued) · 19 seifim
- 1.The boxes of the tefillin must be black, and…
- 2.The straps of the tefillin must be black, and…
- 3.There are scribes who have the custom of taking…
- 4.Tefillin, both the shel yad and the shel rosh,…
- 5.Regarding what is commonly found, that tefillin were properly…
- 6.Tefillin that were formerly brought from the cities of…
- 7.Tefillin whose boxes are not square on account of…
- 8.Regarding the making of grooves around the titura, this…
- 9.In the making of the embossed shin, some make…
- 10.The leather of the boxes of the tefillin shel…
- 11.The custom of scribes to be particular to wrap…
- 12.There are scribes who have the custom of gouging…
- 13.Each parashah must be placed in its own box,…
- 14.In the tefillah shel rosh, the parshiyot are written…
- 15.In the tefillah shel yad, he writes all four…
- 16.Lechatchilah it is preferable to take a single piece…
- 17.One must be particular to sew the boxes of…
- 18.If a little of the width of the tefillin…
- 19.If the strap of the tefillin snapped, some permit…
34Some Laws of Rabbeinu Tam's TefillinSiman 34 · 18 seifim
- 1.In Tractate Menachot, a dispute is brought between Rashi…
- 2.Lechatchilah it would be proper to put on both…
- 3.Even though Maran the Shulchan Aruch wrote that only…
- 4.One who wishes to put on both pairs of…
- 5.It is forbidden to interrupt with speech between putting…
- 6.Those who have the custom of putting on Rabbeinu…
- 7.Some have the custom of putting on Rabbeinu Tam…
- 8.One who prays in a beit haknesset where the…
- 9.One who puts on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin on Rosh…
- 10.The widespread custom in the holy city of Jerusalem,…
- 11.One whose practice is to put on Rashi and…
- 12.And likewise, if he transgressed and mistakenly put on…
- 13.One who finds tefillin on Shabbat, in a place…
- 14.One who recites keriat shema wearing Rabbeinu Tam tefillin,…
- 15.One who puts on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin and recites…
- 16.The widespread custom in most places is not to…
- 17.Some have the custom, on Purim, of putting on…
- 18.One who puts on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin should not…
35The Number of LinesSiman 35 · 4 seifim
- 1.According to the tradition from the early sages, the…
- 2.There is one who says that sometimes even lechatchilah…
- 3.The custom is to write twenty-two lines in a…
- 4.Between one line and the next in a Torah…
36The Precision of Their Writing and the TaginSiman 36 · 21 seifim
- 1.One must write with complete and precise script, so…
- 2.Regarding the tip (kotz) of the yud, which many…
- 3.A letter yud in tefillin, which has, at the…
- 4.A Torah scroll in which the scribe placed a…
- 5.One who wrote a final nun in the manner…
- 6.If, in the middle of the Torah reading, a…
- 7.An open mem found in several tefillin, Torah scrolls,…
- 8.A final chaf must be written so that the…
- 9.One must place crownlets (tagin) on the letters of…
- 10.When placing crownlets on the letters of Shatnez Gatz,…
- 11.The crownlets must touch the body of the letter…
- 12.It is permitted to add crownlets after writing the…
- 13.If they placed the crownlet on a letter nun…
- 14.Parashat Ha'azinu should be written in seventy lines, and…
- 15.A Torah scroll in which, at an open parashah,…
- 16.If a Torah scroll had some parchment sheets with…
- 17.A Torah scroll in which one column became invalid,…
- 18.According to the Masorah, the letter vav in the…
- 19.A scribe who was writing a Torah scroll, and…
- 20.Causing, indirectly, the erasure of the Name of Hashem…
- 21.It is permitted to erase a letter heh that…
37In Praise of the Mitzvah of Tefillin, and Its TimeSiman 37 · 5 seifim
- 1.Great is the reward for the mitzvah of tefillin,…
- 2.The sanctity of tefillin is great, for as long…
- 3.Those who have the custom of putting on Shimusha…
- 4.Even those who have the custom of putting on…
- 5.The widespread custom in most places is not to…
+Not Passing Gas While Wearing TefillinSiman 37 (continued) · 2 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to pass wind while wearing tefillin,…
- 2.One who has an intestinal ailment, and knows that…
+Training a Minor in the Mitzvah of TefillinSiman 37 (continued) · 10 seifim
- 1.A minor who has reached the age of training,…
- 2.When one trains the minor to put on tefillin,…
- 3.A youth who has reached thirteen complete years, that…
- 4.A youth who has reached the age of thirteen…
- 5.It is proper to explain to the general public…
- 6.A bar mitzvah youth who puts on tefillin for…
- 7.Also one who puts on new tefillin does not…
- 8.A minor whose father did not buy him tefillin…
- 9.A minor may put on the tefillin of an…
- 10.A father whose son has reached the age of…
38Who Is Obligated in TefillinSiman 38 · 5 seifim
- 1.Women are exempt from putting on tefillin. And if…
- 2.A blind person is obligated in tefillin, and recites…
- 3.Nowadays, a groom, even on his first day, puts…
- 4.A person wearing only pants, with the upper part…
- 5.One who puts on tefillin must be very careful…
39Sewing a Sefer Torah by a WomanSiman 39 · 1 seifim
Read this siman →+Putting On Tefillin Throughout the Year — and the Law of Tefillin for an Onen/MournerPutting On Tefillin Throughout the Year — and the Law of Tefillin for an Onen/Mourner · 5 seifim
- 1.The custom in Jerusalem is to pray Shacharit on…
- 2.Those who are accustomed to put on tefillin on…
- 3.The custom has already spread in Eretz Yisrael to…
- 4.One is obligated in tefillin on Purim, and when…
- 5.Some have the custom on Purim to put on…
+Tefillin for a MournerTefillin for a Mourner · 6 seifim
- 1.A mourner may not put on tefillin on the…
- 2.One whose relative died on Sunday and was buried…
- 3.One whose relative died on Shabbat and was buried…
- 4.A mourner puts on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin even during…
- 5.A mourner is obligated to put on tefillin on…
- 6.One who is informed that a relative died less…
40Treating Tefillin with SanctitySiman 40 · 8 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to hang tefillin on a peg,…
- 2.It has already become the widespread custom to write…
- 3.A prisoner who is held in jail and is…
- 4.It is forbidden to have marital relations in a…
- 5.Even placing them in a container inside another container,…
- 6.One who attends a fixed meal removes his tefillin…
- 7.One who is accustomed to learn for some fixed…
- 8.One who has a fixed study session after prayer…
42Converting a Tefillin Shel Rosh into a Shel YadSiman 42 · 4 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to convert a tefillin shel rosh…
- 2.It is forbidden to convert the straps and batim…
- 3.If the shel yad strap tore near the knot,…
- 4.Some permit storing mundane items in the tefillin pouch.…
44The Prohibition of Sleeping in Tefillin, and Tefillin That Fell From One's HandSiman 44 · 7 seifim
- 1.As long as the tefillin are on his head…
- 2.One should guard his tefillin so that they do…
- 3.One who sees tefillin fall from another person's hand…
- 4.One who saw in a dream that his tefillin…
- 5.A blind person who sensed by hearing that his…
- 6.If a Sefer Torah falls to the ground, the…
- 7.One who is lying in a hospital with a…