0023 - Rabeinu Tam Tefilin

00:02 In the year I'm in the Tam's film, the Seder used to be not like it's now that when you become Bar Mitzvah, you start wearing both pairs of film. Even the two months before Bar Mitzvah when you start preparing and you put on film every day, we also put on, uh, Rabina Tam's film. But it used to be that only when you became eighteen years old, you would start putting on Rabina Tam's film. Actually, the Rebbe in Tov Shen Yud already, in the Sichas of the first few days after the stalkers of Friedrich Rebbe, there's already a big order where the Rebbe writes that he doesn't understand why we don't start putting on Rabina Tam's film from Bar Mitzvah, and the meaning like that is even by Anash. And the Rebbe was wondering why. And it took the Rebbe twenty-five years till Tov Shen Lamad He when the Rebbe officially said that from now on, you should start putting on from Bar Mitzvah. But till then, the Seder was that you would put on from eighteen. And even that, it was only after he asked the Rebbe. So when I became eighteen years old, I went into Yechidas. That's when you would ask the Rebbe. Actually, my Yechidas was a few weeks before my birthday because my birthday is in the middle of the summer and we were American shlichas, so I went out. I went in before. So one of the questions I asked the Rebbe was whether I should start putting on Rabina

01:08 Tam's film. The Rebbe said yes, but with the condition that I should have my own, I should buy the, get Rabina Tam's film. Then I asked the Rebbe, "Should I wait till I become eighteen?" Because this was a few weeks before, "Or should I start now?" And the Rebbe said, "Sibesa vos freine frier mit ha- mit ha- mit havoch vos frier mit ha-tog." In other words, I said I should start right away. And I did. But the next year, I went into Yechidas. I wrote to the Rebbe that in the beginning, right in the beginning, since I wasn't used to it yet, so I forgot once to put Rabina Tam's film. So what should I do? So the Rebbe said, the first thing is that since it was right in the beginning, it's not so bad. I don't remember the expression he used, but not so bad because, uh, the whole reason... He didn't tie choice, but that's obvious that the whole reason is because it became like a neder. If you're mekabel upon yourself, it's like a neder. But since it's in the beginning, it wasn't, you weren't used to it, so the neder wasn't really a neder yet because you didn't do it for long. Beile is not so bad. And then he said that you should, I should learn in Shulchan Aruch the halachas of Yechidas film. And he said besides the halachas that have to do with safrus, like simila medbeis, and also in Yechidas to learn the mamordim that have

02:23 to do with film.