Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 72:5

נפקא ליה מהיכא דנפקא ליה לר' עקיבא דתניא ר' עקיבא אומר יכול יניח אדם תפילין בשבתות ובימים טובים ת"ל (שמות יג, טז) והיה לאות על ידך ולטוטפת בין עיניך מי שצריכין אות יצאו שבתות וימים טובים שהן גופן אות

For it was taught: One might have thought that a man should put on the tefillin on Sabbaths and on Festivals, Scripture therefore says, And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 16.');">⁷</span> that is, [only on those days] which stand in need of a sign [are tefillin to be worn], but Sabbaths and Festivals are excluded, since they themselves are a sign.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the relation of God to Israel. Cf. Ex. XXXI, 17.');">⁸</span> R'Eleazar said, Whosoever puts on the tefillin after sunset transgresses a positive precept.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the prohibition against wearing the tefillin at night is only inferred from the verse which states And thou shalt observe this ordinance... from day to day, thereby excluding the nights, and a prohibition derived from a positive precept has the force of a positive precept only.');">⁹</span>

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