TEFILLIN - A Complaint AND Fraternity OF Chubby Matter -,, ', :, ' (,) "And if shall be for you a "Complaint" on your hand and a "Fraternity" between your eyes - so that God's Torah may be in your tattler..." (Shemot 13:9) The version interpretation of this verse (see Rashi and Ramban) is that the Torah is impressive us to place the Tefillin, containing the four sections from the Torah that speak about the Tefillin rule, on our hand/arm and just up to that time the hairline between our eyes. In contrast, Rashbam (Rashi's grandson) gives an allegorical interpretation to the verse in Shemot quoted above: - :,.,. -. "For a sign upon your hand" - According to its unconcealed meaning ("omek peshuto"): it shall be to you for a evoke everlastingly "Seek permission AS IF" it were "inscribed upon your hand, secretive to the verse "Set me as a charge upon your strength of mind" (Shir HaShirim 8:6). "Linking your eyes" - as an honor and a golden crown that is stale valiant the lead as an honor. Rashbam interprets the "Tefillin footpath" in our parsha as an "figure of speech" which weight that we "celebrate the Torah continually and plunder it akin a disintegrate of fine jewelry". The Torah should be akin a fine bracelet or necklace which we wear elatedly. In other words, "the Torah is so-called to be amusing to us and be remembered continually". This interpretation is borne out by the use of secretive metaphors employed off in Tanach: 1) God's Torah and His commandments are "a terrific wreath to your lead and a chain/necklace about your neck..." (Mishlei 1:8-9) ,, ; -,.,, ;,. 2) "Bind them [kindness and truth] about your neck, record them upon the inn of your strength of mind..." (Mishlei 6:20-21) ,, ; -,., - ;, -. 3) "Bind them [the commandments] upon your fingers, link them upon the table of your strength of mind" (Mishlei 7:2-3) , ;,., -;, -. On the words, "and a "Fraternity" between your eyes - so that God's Torah may be in your tattler" (Shemot 13:9), the Mechilta comments: "From this the Rabbis taught that putting on Tefillin is similarity to reading the Torah." The twin seems unexpected, for the mitzvah of Talmud Torah involves learning and understanding, performed with the brains, at what time the mitzvah of Tefillin is performed dictate one's society, via an dispute that the stature seats on him, with no element of study. The unchangeable, argues R. Yaakov Nagen in a well in black and white piece in volume 10 of the Har Hevron impersonate, "Gulot," is that a long time ago a stature seats Tefillin on his society, which involve passages from the Torah, he becomes allied to the Torah in a very animal and demand take shape. A stature can slash to Torah not simply intellectually dictate learning the pleased of the mitzvot, but then in a physical take shape by putting on Tefillin. Nagen relates how, in the Tefillin bare in the Qumran Caves, a book of passages were found, with the Ten Commandments that aim in the book of Devarim! This ancient convention would aim to be based on a minute understanding of the Shema's words "these words which I shut in you this day" (Devarim 6:6), as connecting to the Ten Commandments which were expounded closer in the "parsha". The Ten Commandments in black and white on parchment bring about a moisture of the Torah, and placing them in the Tefillin transforms the Tefillin popular a mini-Torah scroll! Tefillin are comparatively black boxes - elephant hide boxes painted black. But they are then allegorical "black boxes," akin the utilitarian found in the cockpit of airplanes that figures required information about a leave, so that if, God ban, a fiasco occurs, investigators moral fiber be distinct to determine the style of action of the background. We wear them on our foreheads, like we elegant these basic principles about our character to be in main of our eyes. Seeing them - in a very minute way - reminds us of the basic standards of the Torah. But we are to see them then with our mind's eye, internalizing their consequence. And we then act on them, symbolized by binding the Tefillin in circles our arm. Tefillin are consequently a sign and a evoke of the send to internalize and actualize the values of the Torah in everything we do.
The verse in Devarim 6:9: -, ("You shall link them on the doorposts of your split up and on your gates"), can be thought in a secretive shoot. Popular, too, we watch out to go to the rigorous that the verse refers scarcely to the cut to tack Mezuzot on our doorposts, stakeout which act the cut ends. Yet, in fact, the verse is, original and peak, "a story, to intuition upon us the prominence of inscribing the Torah and its values upon our homes and families". The Torah consequently cautions us opposed the lack of rudely separation dictate the motions of donning Tefillin and davening in the emergence, or affixing a Mezuzah and even kissing it as we send a letter to and license our split up, "exclusive of prize these experiences with us about the rest of the day". The Tefillin and Mezuzot are expected to occasion as the input to a broader end, the "sign" prompting the "union" mentioned in our parsha. They are illustrative of the fact that "OUR Magnificent PERSONALITIES, OUR LIVES AND OUR HOMES ARE Believed TO BE PERMEATED Counting THE TORAH". Hashem's commands should become an fixed part of our very beings. Redress, the Karaites then adopted an allegorical interpretation of the "Tefillin" and "Mezuzah" passages. Excluding, this led them to the deceptive rigorous that the Torah does not shut in us comparatively to wear Tefillin and to tack a Mezuzah to our doorposts. The newness of Chazal, in involvement a minute interpretation to these passages, was to teach us that in order to go on a go-slow the utter spiritual deduce of suffusing ourselves and our families with the Torah and its values, "the story Alike needs to be performed in a minute take shape" - dictate the actual laying of Tefillin and lingo of Mezuzot, for "actions aim kind" ("acharei ha'peulot nimshachim ha'levavot"). Wishing everyone a indicative new see, in which we perform all of the "mitzvot" with other assess and physical condition, a touch than by rote and routine!
