Responsa for Menachot 69:8
מעשה בהורקנוס בנו של ר' אליעזר בן הורקנוס שהיה קושר תפיליו בלשונות של ארגמן ולא אמר לו דבר איפשר אותו צדיק ראה בנו ולא מיחה בו אמרו לו הן לא ראה אותו ואם ראה אותו לא היה מניחו
and also for another reason.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The suspicion that the wearer of these tefillin had had relations with his wife during her period of menstruation, and the straps had consequently been dyed red with blood.');"><sup>9</sup></span> R'Judah said, It is related of one of R'Akiba's disciples that he used to tie his tefillin w strips of blue wool, and R'Akiba made no comment. But is it possible that that righteous man actually saw his disciple do so and he did not prevent him?
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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