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Responsa for Menachot 69:10

אי מבפנים מאי גנאי ודבר אחר איכא זימנין דמתהפכין ליה

They said to him, He certainly did not see him do so, for had he seen him he would not have allowed him. Now it is stated here, at all events, [that the straps may be] either green or black or white! - This is no contradiction, for here it speaks of the outside of the strap and there of the inside.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Isaac only stated that the outside of the strap must be black; the inside, however, may be of any colour as stated in the Baraitha, except red.');"><sup>10</sup></span> But if of the inside, how can it be repellent or give any ground for suspicion?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the inside of the strap is not seen.');"><sup>11</sup></span>

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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