0592 - The Rebbe Would Touch His Tefilin by the Words V'nishmor Chukecha

00:01 Most people touch their Tefillin shel yad and Tefillin shel rosh and kiss it during davening in specific times, like we've shaked them, we say Yadecha, we say Chesedecha, those times. But the Rebbe would do it another time, which most people don't do it. In the Volatzim, when you come to the words of V'chein yerotzem b'vanecha Hashem Elokeinu v'Elokei avoteinu, Shenishmer chukecha bei lamaze, by the words Shenishmer chukecha bei lamaze, the Rebbe would touch his Tefillin shel yad and Tefillin shel rosh and then put it to his lips, which means he would kiss it. And the reason it seems why he did it is because it's brought down in Shaar HaKelo concerning Volatzim when it comes to the end, when we say this yerotzem, et cetera. So it brings from Seder Hayyim that this part was added because really this is the end of davening. After this, there is really no more inyonim which are called from the Tikkunei Atfila from the etzem of davening. That's the reason why after Volatzim you say Tiskabel, because then it's the end of davening. And it's proper to thank and praise Hashem at that point. And then he adds also that this is the time when you could take off your Tefillin. And therefore we daven at this time when you're able to take off your Tefillin, we daven today that we should, Nishmer chukecha, we should keep your mitzvahs in this world like we were zecher to keep this mitzvah of tzitzit and Tefillin and Tefillah, et cetera,

01:23 till now that we kept on the Tefillin and we were able to do it. And this is the time where you could take off the Tefillin. And then he says this is similar to the minhag of the Bnei Marov of Eretz Yisrael that they used to, when they took off the Tefillin, they would make a bracha, Lishmo yichukov. It's all based on the pasuk that this refers to taking off the Tefillin when you have to. So therefore, by Nishmer chukecha, it makes sense to touch your Tefillin. And in Shaar HaKelo he adds, brought from Seder Hayyim, Ayin Bes Yosef Eretz Hayyim Siman Chof Ches. Look into the Bes Yosef Eretz Hayyim Siman Chof Ches that he brought the Gemara and the Tosfot. And the pashut is this seems to be the reason why the Rebbe would touch his Tefillin there. But the Shaar HaKelo finishes off, I guess taken from the Seder Hayyim, Mikol mekemeroyu lemedagdek shelo lehosir atalos et Tefillin ad achar aleinu. That the one that's really medaged be mitzvot should not take off his tallit and Tefillin till after aleinu. But it seems like this was the reason why the Rebbe would touch his Tefillin by these words saying Shenishmer chukecha bei lamaze.