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Hashem, so the halacha today is going to be on one second about the tefillin. So we're saying like this, we all know that when we put the tefillin, we put the tefillin on our weaker hand. Why? Cuz it says "Yadcha hayata ot al yadcha." In the Torah it's written yadcha yad keha. Yadcha, which means that you it's written with an extra hey at the end. Normally the way you spell yadcha is yud dalet chaf chaf sofit. Over here the Torah writes it yud dalet chaf hey. So
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- 0:00Hashem, so the halacha today is going to be on one second about the tefillin. So…
- 0:31the Ma says you split it yad keha. You split it into the the weaker hand.…
- 1:03Chachamim say the hand that you write with is going to be considered your stronger hand.…
- 1:33put the tefillin on both. He would put the tefillin on one hand, he would take…
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