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Do I have to put on tefillin if I have a cast on my arm?

by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg

  

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Someone who, G-d forbid, broke their arm continues to place Tefillin on the broken arm (the Halachic authorities only have a doubt if the arm is permanently paralyzed).


If the cast is only on the arm and not on the bicep, then one makes a blessing and puts the tefillin on the bicep and wraps the strap around the cast. Even if the cast covers the bicep the tefillin is placed on the bicep (and wrapped around the arm) but without a blessing.


Even in such a case a blessing must be made on the head tefillin.

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