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Can a lefty use righty Tefilin ?

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Rabbi David Elmaleh

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As what the sham, so we spoke about it earlier today and the first minyan about the about the placement of tefillin on which hand we place the tefillin. So, the Torah says that we place the tefillin on our weaker hand, right? The Torah goes into the reason why and we normally say if a person is a righty, he's going to put on his left hand. A person is lefty, he's going to put it on his left hand. Now, uh sorry, he puts a person who's lefty, he puts it on his right hand. And the Torah also says that most of the time

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