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Commentary for Berakhot 30:26

אצטריך סד"א נילף כתיבה כתיבה מהתם מה התם אלות אין צואות לא אף הכא נמי צואות לא כתב רחמנא וכתבתם אפי' צואות:

It is necessary [to mention this point] ; because it might have entered thy mind that I mean we can draw an analogy from the use of the verb "to write" in the former instance, thus : As there [with reference to the woman suspected of adultery] the curses were to be written and not the words of the command, so here likewise [with the Tefillin] the words of the command were not to be written! Therefore the All-merciful wrote, "And thou shalt write them" i.e. even the words of the command.

Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot

On this argument, see p. 18 n. 5.
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