Related%20passage for Menachot 83:23

תפילין תיובתיה והרי תפילין דפסולות בעובד כוכבים דתני רב חיננא בריה דרבא

Daru B'Papa said in the name of Rab, From the verse, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XVII, 9. Only one like Abraham, i.e., circumcised, may perform the circumcision. kunh kunv kunv');">²³</span> R'Johanan said, From the words, Must needs be circumcised,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 13. Heb. can by a slight alteration of the vowels be rendered , 'he who is circumcised may circumcise', thus excluding gentiles. vfx');">²⁴</span> that is, he who is circumcised shall circumcise. The law concerning the sukkah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. , the booth set up at the Feast of Tabernacles in fulfilment of Lev. XXIII, 42.');">²⁵</span> adds support [to R'Hisda's principle] while that concerning the tefillin refutes it. Thus, the sukkah is valid when made by a gentile, for it has been taught: A booth of gentiles, women, cattle, or Cutheans, or any manner of booth, is valid [as a sukkah], provided it was roofed according to law.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Suk. 8b.');">²⁶</span> And when made by an Israelite no blessing is necessary, for it has been taught: When a man makes a sukkah for himself he must say, 'Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast kept us in life, and hast preserved us, and enabled us to reach this season'; and when he enters to sit in it he must say, 'Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast sanctified us by thy commandments, and hast commanded us to dwell in the sukkah'. But one never says, [Blessed. and hast commanded us] to make the sukkah. On the other hand, the law of tefillin is a refutation; for the tefillin are invalid when made by a gentile, for R'Hinena the son of Raba

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