0166 - When to Put on Rabeinu Tam Tefilin

00:01 There was a bocher in 770, when I learned in 770, who asked the Rebbe a shailah, if it's important that he should put on a rabbinic tamtz film right after davening before he goes to eat breakfast, or he could do it after he eats breakfast. And the Rebbe answered him that it's k'dai v'nochin, it's the right thing to do to put on a rabbinic tamtz film right after davening, because then it's still connected to the brocha that you made on Rashes film. And even though there is a hefsek between the brocha on Rashes film and the rabbinic tamtz film, the hefsek is in the middle that you davened, but it's not the same, the hefsek of davening to the hefsek of eating. So you should put it on before. And then the Rebbe wrote, im eafshar, if it's not possible, then you could put them on a whole day. When the Sefer HaMenchogim was being prepared by Rabbi Groner for the Rebbe to be megiya, to be printed, so I remember I came over to him and I gave him the tzel because this bocher gave me a copy of the tzel. So I mentioned it to him and I gave him the tzel. So he took the tzel and he wrote it as one of the minhogim in Sefer HaMenchogim. But I remember the Rebbe changed a few words. In the original tzel that he wrote, he said that the hefsek of davening is not the same as the hefsek of eating and drinking,

01:13 etc., something like that. And here the Rebbe changed and he said that ein adam a hefsek tfila l'hefsek in yonai cheil, that it's not the same, the hefsek of davening to the hefsek of regular things, ordinary things, not holy things. And be'pasht is the reason is because he asked the question of whether he should put it on right after davening before breakfast or after breakfast. So the Rebbe mentioned that the hefsek of eating is worse than the hefsek of davening. But maybe he should put it on before breakfast. But when it was printed in the Sefer HaMenchogim, it has nothing to do with eating. It's a general shaila. Should he put it on right away or could put it on later? So here the Rebbe changes to a general expression that the hefsek of tfila is not the same as the hefsek of in yonai cheil, of ordinary things. Be'pasht is that's the reason why the Rebbe changed it.