Responsa for Menachot 69:1
אלא גוייתא לברייתא וברייתא לגוייתא אבל גוייתא לגוייתא וברייתא לברייתא לית לן בה
only [if he put] a portion that should be inside outside or what should be outside inside,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the portions of the first and second compartments or of the third and fourth had been interchanged.');"><sup>1</sup></span> but if he put what should be inside also inside or what should be outside also outside,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the portions of the second and third compartments (both inner portions) or of the first and fourth compartments (both outer portions) had been interchanged.');"><sup>2</sup></span> it does not matter.
Noda BiYhudah I
Rashi, loc. cit.” ‘If a man overlaid [the tefillin] with gold’ The boxes containing the tfillin are disqualified, as leather boxes are a requirement, as even the straps that are wrapped (around the arm) must be from that material (lit. ‘species’ or ‘type’, meaning: leather), as was stated in the tractate ‘One (a priest) who takes a handful ‘31Menachot 35a see below note 32. ‘Or one placed upon them’: That if one makes the boxes from the hide of a ritually impure animal, they are disqualified, as was stated in the chapter ‘Eight Crawling Species32Babylonian Tractate Shabbat 108a see below’: “So that the torah of Hashem will be in your mouth”- that which is permitted to be in your mouth. “- this is the end of Rashi’s text.
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