(revised) putting on tefillin in the ashkenazi minhag

[KingOystar]

how often should Tefillin be inspected to insure they are still Kosher?

[virginiatechfanx]

do only ashkenazi wrap it on their middle finger or do all and do all wrap on the bicep in the shape of a shin?

[KingOystar]

very helpful indeed! I lay Tefillin each required day!

[erbe38]

how do you do the ashkenazi hand minshag if you wrap outwards?

[christinepro]

Isn't this suppose to be a spiritual commandment rather than a physical?

[vulcanmat613]

@christinepro

This is half-true - for millenia, even the most heretical Jews, who deviated in serious ways from the main body of Torah Judaism, including Bassusim, Sadducees, etc..., all understood from our tradition that tefillin are to be worn. Tefillin were even found among the dead sea scrolls, exactly as we have them today. However, the reason why we do it is spiritual, and what they accomplish, is also entirely spiritual. These tefillin purify our hearts and minds(which the soul rests on)

[vulcanmat613]

@vulcanmat613

Only recently have impostors of various 'new-age' streams come along and attempted to dismiss all of the commandments as 'metaphors' or whatever. The same can be done with 'do not kill' as well, or anything, at the whims of these pseud-religionists. G-d gave us a body with which to sanctify with the physical performance of 613 commandments - of course, a large amount of the effects come from the thoughts behind the actions, among them that one is doing the mitzvah for Hashem

[bernardrichards]

@vulcanmat613

"one is doing the mitzvah for Hashem"

One is doing the mitzvah for oneself. One never does mitzvahs for Hashem because that would mean Hashem is incomplete or not perfect, and we take axiomatically that he is.

[MrQueentut898]

@vulcanmat613 It's probably better to spend more time learning and less time criticizing other Jews. The Rashbam (Rashi's grandson, not usually considered a heretic) says that "According to the deep plain meaning, it should be for a constant state of consciousness as if it were written on your very hand, just like the phrase 'Place me as a seal upon your heart.'"

[aviyahu01]

@vulcanmat613 very good explanation.

[aviyahu01]

@vulcanmat613 both in the video as well as in the comments section...very good explanations.

[MrQueentut898]

@christinepro The issue is disputed. Most authorities consider it a literal one, but for example the Rashbam (Rashi's grandson) says that "According to the deep plain meaning, it should be for a constant state of consciousness as if it were written on your very hand, just like the phrase 'Place me as a seal upon your heart.'"

However, he wouldn't question that tefillin should still be worn, as a symbol/reminder of the deeper meaning.

[potato21012]

We learn it from the mishna and gemara about their machlokot on teffilin and you should just ask any rav and he will tell u i am right

[potato21012]

And the great sages did put on teffilin all day, but also almost every single jew put on teffilin all day in the time of the mishna and gemara

[herskovicmd]

@potato21012 tefillin on almost every Jew, all day? what's your source for that?

[potato21012]

You forgot to mention the prohibition of talking between the blessing on the teffilin shel yad and baruch shem. And like someone mentioned before, you must have a clean body, no farting or going to the bathroom with teffilin on. it is PROHIBITED to wear teffilin if you have a stomach ache or if you are in a place where it is not a right place to ware teffilin like a graveyard and bathroom or if you don't have good thoughts, then take them off if it is so.

[potato21012]

You forgot to mention the prohibition of talking between the blessing on the teffilin shel yad until baruch shem. And like someone mentioned before, you must have a clean body, no farting or going to the bathroom with teffilin on. it is PROHIBITED to wear teffilin if you have a stomach ache or if you are in a place where it is not a right place to ware teffilin like a graveyard and bathroom or if you don't have right thoughts if you do, take them off.

[difencrosby]

Nice video!

[Israeltekhelet]

Good video. Very informative. Toda Raba

[MenechemShaul]

TODDAH RABBAH! YESHER KOACH!

[hamberbar]

thanks

[diemaster91]

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[CEHAT0P]

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[MenechemShaul]

YOU NEED HELP!

[YamaniNetsi]

thank you!

[iegp9]

thank you for this. i was using a different method which i found a little uncomfortable. i do have a question though. isn't it supposed to spell out one of g-ds names on the arm (sha...)? i don't see it. i see the shin and nothing else.

[vulcanmat613]

The hand part of the tefillin is supposed to make a shin in some way(there are various ways of doing this) on the hand itself. The arm is just supposed to be wrapped 7 times, going down the arm.

[herskovicmd]

@iegp9 the daled is the knot of the head t'fillin. the yud is tied in place at the box of the hand t'fillin

[joemmoraes]

thank you very much. very useful.

[DovidRosenfeld]

Shkoiach Bochur! Keep shteiging.

[vulcanmat613]

I do not know if you are obligated in putting on tefillin from reading your channel - only men who have Jewish mothers, or who convert through a legitimate Torah authority, are obligated to do so. Interestingly enough, the only way you can know what tefillin are is if you accept the Oral Law, or torah shebaal peh, which outright rejects jesus(as does the written torah, but that is a side issue). Why you are willing to toss aside logic with this 'synthesis' is beyond me.

[vulcanmat613]

Furthermore, since you are following what the opral torah says about tefillin, you should then perforce follow the other laws it has about tefillin - such as the prohibition of taking one's mind off of the mitzvah while wearing them(even for a moment), the difficulty in keeping them in the right place, taking care to have a totally clean body while wearing them(this includes the prohibition to pass gas while they are on), and many others. If you aren't Jewish, it clearly is not worth it.

[vulcanmat613]

I haven't the faintest clue where you get off saying that - the history of chabad is one of mainstream Judaism. Today's lubavitch movement, or rather, elements of it, are not to be even called chabad - it sullies it's beautiful name. The lubavitcher rebbes were amazing tzadikim, and their seforim, most notably the tanya and the halachik works of the tzemach tzedek, have played a major role in yiddishkeit. What the meshechisten and, worse yet, eloikisten represent is a far cry from real chabad.

[LouDiamondPhilips199]

Well,how do you put on a ritz?

[vulcanmat613]

ritz? what are you talking about?

[LouDiamondPhilips199]

Sorry, it was a joke relating to a song called "Puttin on a ritz".But I'd like to ask if I may..I heard there is a word for the colour of blue used on garments, and that the dye was made from a fish and sometimes a snail.

[keliata]

LOL Lou :)

[Salamlcolholam]

i have the same tfillin as you cool

[vulcanmat613]

you also wear left-handed dakos? interesting

[Salamlcolholam]

well mine are right but apart form that

[arihack]

left handed is for homo jewish jajaja ;)...

im Right handed, thats cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[harrycappas]

NICE U GOT 65 SUBZ

[avenueq14]

im ALSO left handed! cool

[ykayfields]

you are so lucky HASHEM made you a man! I wish I was a man sometimes so I can also daven with tefillin :)

[uziyahuidf]

I thought there was a case where a famous Rabbi's daughter wore tefillin?

[jewstrangelove]

The exception is never the rule in Judaism

[vulcanmat613]

that's an old story about rashi's daughters, but there's not a shred of evidence for it - it's most likely a myth.

[uziyahuidf]

That's for the correction, mat and strangelove.

[ykayfields]

i heard of Rashis daughters too......but i didnt know where it came from

[vulcanmat613]

your guess is as good as mine - rashi's daughters were incredibly holy women, but to my knowledge there's no reliable source about them wearing tefillin, just stories - similar to the myth about not being able to be buried in a jewish cemetary if one has a tattoo - totally untrue, just a myth that(mostly secular) jews came to believe over the years..

[herskovicmd]

@vulcanmat613 it might be a myth about tattoos, but that "lie" has saved scores of Jews from transgressing a mitzvah of the Torah

[herskovicmd]

@ykayfields there is no Torah prohibition for a woman to wear t'fillin, tzitzith, read from the Torah, have an aliyah, and many other things men do. men *need* to do many mitzvoth for the correction (tikkun) of our soul. A woman's soul is altogether higher, and was HaShem's very last act of creation. Adam received one breath of life from HaShem, which Eve took part in, passively. While Adam slept, HaShem formed Eve from within Adam and gave her another breath of life.

[vulcanmat613]

no, YOU're lucky - hashem made you on a spiritual level where you dont need as many mitzvos as men do to connect to hashem, if you wore tefillin, it would be like saying you need it when you dont, which would be insulting yourself

[ykayfields]

really???

i never knew that. i always felt like i wanted to do all that though. wear a kippah and tefillin. all that good stuff.

i can see what you mean by that. i never knew it would be insulting myself.

thanks for letting me know :)

[vulcanmat613]

sure, thats why in the morning, we men say 'shelo asani isha' thanking g-d for not having made us women, because we have more mitzvos than women have - women say 'she asanai kirtzono' which means, 'according to his will' meaning that women are closer to the will of g-d, and hence are closer to spiritual perfection

[ykayfields]

wow, thats really nice :)

and makes me even more proud to be Jewish and a Jewish woman.

[keliata]

What a beautiful attitude about women :) I know feminists use shelo asani ish to accuse Jews of being sexist. Nobody ever explains what it really means.

[vulcanmat613]

feminists are just ignorant people who lump Judaism together with other religions as being 'suppressive' - christianity is, I agree, but still, how much sense does a movement that is`supposed`to empower women make while they walk around 90% naked in their 'enlightened' ways?

Shelo asani isha is a beautiful bracha - as is every bracha made by hashem and the sages - you wont find any sexist ideas in torah, however you will find gender roles, just not the christian type.

[ykayfields]

good job Matisyahu :)

what a mitzvah!!!!

[partilov1]

how cool i never knew this

[asongtowardslife]

Nice post. Good job. Thank you.