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Are Tefillin worn on Purim?

  

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Rabbi Yosef Loschak: Welcome. I'll be with you in a moment...what's on your mind

purim_prayer: do Sephardic jews wear Tefillin on Purim?

Rabbi Yosef Loschak: yes

purim_prayer: are there any jews who dont wear tefillin on purim?

purim_prayer: in the religious sphere that is lol

Rabbi Yosef Loschak: no. in fact, the code of jewish law1 says that one is preferabaly supposed to be wearing tefillin while hearing the (daytime) Megillah reading

purim_prayer: ok thanks.

purim_prayer: all the best have a good one

Rabbi Yosef Loschak: take care

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  • 1. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, 141:22. See also Kaf HaChaim 693:19

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Life Cycle » Bar/Bat Mitzvah » Tefillin
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Tefillin
Black leather boxes containing small scrolls with passages of the Bible written on them. Every day, aside for Sabbath and Jewish holidays, the adult Jewish male is required to wrap the Tefillin--by means of black leather straps--around the weaker arm and atop the forehead.
Purim
A one-day holiday celebrated in late winter commemorating the miraculous deliverance of the Jewish people from a decree of annihilation issued by Persian King Ahasuerus in the year 356 BCE.
Megillah
A scroll. Usually a reference to the Book of Esther, one of the books of the "Written Torah", which is read--from a scroll--on the holiday of Purim.
Sephardic
(adj.) A Jew whose ancestors stem from Southern Italy, Spain, Portugal, North Africa or the Arabian countries.