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Ekev – The Rosh Yeshiva Responds – Laying Tefillin for Chinukh

by Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on August 22, 2024)
Topics: Ekev, Rosh Yeshiva Responds, Sefer Devarim, Torah

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וּקְשַׁרְתֶּ֨ם אֹתָ֤ם לְאוֹת֙ עַל־יֶדְכֶ֔ם וְהָי֥וּ לְטֽוֹטָפֹ֖ת בֵּ֥ין עֵֽינֵיכֶֽם:

“and you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.” (Devarim 11:18).

This question is taken from a WhatsApp group in which Rabbi Linzer responds to halakhic questions from rabbis and community members.

QUESTION—California

For numerous reasons, I daven at home before going into school, but then I put on tefillin at school again for chinukh reasons. I should say a berakhah, right?

ANSWER

If there is hefseik of siluk hada’at or you go into a place where you cannot be wearing your tefillin—i.e., the bathroom (although, whether that is really true with today’s bathrooms is a different question)—then you say another berakhah. If you were to take them off, go into the car, go straight to school and into the room where people are davening and put them on again, then you would not say another berakhah. I am assuming that that is not the case. So, yes, you make a berakhah again.

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