Friday, November 02, 2007

Tefillin Wrapping Explanation - Courtesy of R' Yitzchok Zirkind


5 comments:

  1. For us Hebrew challenged, could you give a brief english summary?

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  2. Ashkenaz has the yud-kesher closer to the heart, but in a place that might tug it away from the bayis; Sefard vice versa.

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  3. Courtesy of Philip Silberman:

    Not exactly an answer, but I think there’s a pattern going on with some differences between Ashkenazim and Sephardic practices:

    http://www.thelivingtree.org/audio/PDF/FW-19.pdf See the last page, in particular. (It’s not an audio file.)

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  4. I scannned through about 100 comments but did not read them all. Any opinion on the subject?

    http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2007/10/rav-soloveitchik-and-red-sox.html

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