Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin: An Overview

As promised, going back to just going to get comfortable for a second going back to the very first Gumar of today's daf and that is the bryer that discussed the seder of the parish of the th. So the exactly how are you supposed to be the four in the should be to the right and should be to the left. The said we learned in it's just the opposite. And is it my right or is it your right from the standpoint of the it's from the standpoint of the it's going to be just the opposite. It's going to be and it's going to be we mentioned that there's a big time and had to understand in this very cryptic Rashi said that what the Bryson means when it says is that from the perspective if you're looking at it from right going left is going to be the parish on the far Right is going to be immediately to its left. What does the price mean when it says what it means is that as it relates to the next two paras what you would consider the left half of the is going to be the one to the right and volume is going to be to the left. In other words, the way the parish are lined up are going right to left from the standpoint of the k meaning from the standpoint of the person who's looking at the said it's not mashma that way from the because if that's what the means then the should have just told me that the way you do this is is why are we talking about the the smile. Why are we bifurcating the four parachutes into two halves? It almost has no havana says. I think what the price is saying is something else that are from right to left exactly the way Rashi said. But when the says is the far left which means that volume is going to be to its right. And the reason the bracelet divided it into your min and smile is because we're looking at it from the to the we're looking at it from the outer to the inner. So on the right side outer to inner is on the left side if you're going outer to inner it's but said that if you're looking at the and going right to left the way you're going to see it is and in the immortal words of what you're going to be left with is you're going to have the the two par that begin with the word vaha those are the words that are going to go in between in other words according to rashi if you want to summarize the it's the way it's set up and in the in the itself the four parishes are according to the way to summarize it is for sure on the far right is on the far left and it's the two voyas first and then that are that is the two of respectively. If you take a look at the and this is the says as follows as it relates to the seder of how you're supposed to put the parachutes inside the according to the we'll see the ra in a minute. So Rash is looking at it from the standpoint of the again what's to the right in our is to the left that was the either way I'm sorry the brings the sheet of Rashi and the Rama It's a little different than the way we've been discussing it in the bryer because the bryer was talking about it from the standpoint of the and the is looking at it from the standpoint of the which the bryer just alluded to and in that but the bottom line is the presents the sheet of rashi which he refers to also as the as it relates to either brings again in his language and then he says as it relates to the it's both and he should make two pairs of fillin and he should put them both on and when he puts both pers on what should be the one that is The right one that's the one I'm being is filling with and the other one is they're just leather straps says you want to know how you going to put on two pairs of fill in it's not a problem because the says this place on a person's forehead to put on two pairs of and on the bicep on the arm also to put on two pairs of says let's say you don't know how to know to put on these two pairs of fill at the same time. You should put on one of them first. The take it off and then put on the other one. So you make a put on one immediately take it off and put on the other one. There are some say that in the event you can't put them both on at the same time you should put on your should and you should read meaning you should read the part of with your either way. brings both brings the says like in other words is stating that says and therefore you should put on two peers of how do you put on two of says put them both on at the same time because let's say you can't do it that way there's two options one option is put on one immediately take it off and put on the other both like the other is for after you put on your fill in and you go ahead and you put on the and say from the it seems pretty clear that the is like Rashi stating that there's an Indian that in addition to putting filling should also put on filling in this isal as that everybody's asked themselves consciously or subconsciously at some point in their life and that is that why is it that when it comes to this said that should And he should try to not rely on the which is but he should also be there are so many in shas that if we don't pass like we don't pass like there's so many of shas that there's tremendous rishim that we would be afraid to be in the same room with but we don't follow their because this gre And we follow whoever is like when it comes to filling became such a that even though the says that we don't pass like but the last with a little bit of a pump also he said in yesterday's sois brings Shil exactly how you're supposed to put the the parachin themselves. Rashi says that they're supposed to be standing says they're supposed to be it's Rashi and on the page here in earlier where the discusses or the talking about exactly how the parish are supposed to be like that's the meaning and he doesn't say the way did it which means by the way just to put into perspective if would see a person who is filling He'd be very disappointed. He would say this is called did you not learn? This is not the way it's supposed to be. He says in filling in we're not even doing filling. It seems that for whatever reason as it relates to this particular in terms of the sedra in terms of over here we're taking on the and he asked I have no I'm trying to understand why this is the way it is by the way the name of the is the one who asked to be widow And he said why does this have a mazle that even says that gave a very very short answer as a matter of fact this whole chuva is like eight lines it's definitely from the easier chuva but I think in order to appreciate what told the sha we need a little bit of an introduction and we have to set it up a little bit. So this these two types of fillin is known as the between and of course it comes from the here six lines on the bottom of the truth is that really this is also the film. He discusses in detail even drew a picture how are you supposed to be these four paras in the raman goes ahead and he describes exactly the is and he has a long long and the rabbit says it's not the way you're supposed to do it but rather the way you're supposed to do it is now it's interesting not for now but the rivet actually had like but whereas Raen has and he has sham the rivet has it exactly the opposite but that's not for the bottom line is the ram seemingly had fillin and the rivet had something very similar to fillin he had that and the truth is we read it a minute ago when the bring Raom as well but when you open up the Rambam you'll see a long rivid and the riv is as it relates to the way understood the it sounds like that we're bifurcating the right and the left and which was but either way this on some level is also between the I saw in from the great and this is he has a long long chuva. By the way, if you go through that chuva, you'll know everything you have to know about this topic. But either way, if you go through that, he has a very very big and one of the things he does is like no one was ever able to do is he's lists out the two columns, right? The and right he has the right side and the left side all the names that follow and all the names that follow. Just give you a synopsis as it relates to and that went and pass like it's the safer the safer and the safenyan the rebarili the riff the riv and go and the how's that for two hall of fame lists. So really if you go through the and the this is between even though that's what it's known as but really you could just as equally say I wear the balin I wear fill in right are you mid and wearing a fill in I don't know some people are some people are not all right so you can name this fill what you want to name it it's known as but we just mentioned 10 on the rashi side and 10 on just trying to bring out one point and that is is that this is between is literally from the grace of all time. This wasn't something that one day and decided to argue about, but rather this was a a shah that really cuts through all the and the and it's almost like half the and the came out one way and the other half of the came out another way. The truth is it's a little bit deeper than that in this famous on the bottom of quotes and acknowledges that this I'm about to quote sounds very much like the is at the very very end of par in fact it's the last par on the mitzvah of says the there's four times that mentions filling is four par as relates to the it's one and as opposed to the that's already four these are the four it's here's the punch line and you have to write it in that order and if you don't write in that order put it into it's not something you're allowed to use says that it sounds like this says that the sed of the parish now the is talking about the way you write them but it sounds like as well is supposed to be in this order and even conceded that this was very very mashma already like rashi so we have a that jumps off the page very much like rashi the in his and this is in it's under that's where it is if you want to look it up inside it's called the discusses that it's that there was once upon a time a sedum now if you ask academic right was there a yami on sed kachum so everybody knows that about 150 years ago somebody claimed to have found on Kim and he went and he pedled it around and he showed it to all the it was so good that the says that when he came to Dinsk I don't remember who was who but either the said it's real and said it's not or said it was real and the raach said it wasn't I think it was the raach who said not based on some but the bottom line is this was but this is more 19th century hawk the bottom line is that once upon a time for sure there's was a onch and he brings a few from that it's very clear that they had it and one of the that the says had on was the rivid as a matter of fact he says that the rivid said quoting zyar wow that the says that in terms of the sed terms of the seder the parish is ba this is the way it has to be and the raid brings this as a toita he's under as a toita that have to be bansa but the bottom line is we have a shi on quote unquote that seems to say that have to be bans which means that this shil of exactly how to say the parishes have to be forget about that it's and we have the long list of on both sides of the ledger it's already it seemed to have already been a between the which was already acknowledged and the albeit in that seems to say that it's supposed to be a visa. So this again this is an old old old old mus but it's even more than that and that is we're familiar with the sh right it was written by one of the who used to have dreams and in his dreams a maggot would come to him and he'd be mal and it got so good that every night before this sadic would go to sleep he would write down a sh on a piece of paper and mamish in his dream the maggot would come And the mag would reveal to him and he would tell him uh what the answer to this sh is. We've quoted from the safer many times over the years specifically from Rabu Margolas's pish and his m to the cifer. So one of the swarum that Margolus published that wasn't his own uh unique safer but rather a commentary on another safer is you can see how this was right up his alley and in the introduction he has like a 75page moo in terms of what happened to additionally he wrote a very very detailed commentary on the different truas that are discussed in this chaim I asked I reached out to heaven and I said that can you please uh shed some light in terms of exactly how you're supposed to be the he says I'm going to tell you exactly what I wrote verbatim ready for this you're sitting or you're standing We have this big suffic and we know the stakes are high. If you get it wrong, it's possible that say do you love more? This is the question. Ready for the response. So the response that was given was you think you're going to get a Isa yeah up in also you have the same the same going up up in as a matter of fact says there's nowhere to go after this right I mean this is take called taking it all the way to the top and if you're not getting you're not getting anywhere but what's the bottom what do you see from all this we see from that this was not just over it's the not just that it's between not just that it was between said this is not a regular this is much bigger all these braces and in you find already arguing said coming full circle in his to the wanted to know over here the says that why would this be different than all the other that we have now he doesn't say it as dramatically as we set it up but says of you can't compare the two. There's too many people on the other side of the equation. We said there's a whole bunch a whole of we said you have the of you have literally the other side is too strong the other side is too compelling and because the other side is too strong and the other side is too compelling. So it's for that reason when it comes to this mus this mus already has to be treated a little bit differently and that's why when it comes to this mus between rashi and over here this til over here you have on the one hand we pas like rashi but then again over here we have to give credibility to the raut as well the truth is there's a whole another approach as relates to this kasha and that is Why would it be that we pasin like Rashi but at the same time punked over here the says that is and should and this really goes into the world of and that is we are going to save for Marisha.