Total lack of hekker ribuah in rear of titurah

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Is this kosher? There is hekker ribuah underneath but no cut out on the top. (Someone just brought these back from Israel where they purchased this from a "top" sofer as a "top" pair of tefillin". Hmmm)


(It is a basic halacha that for the ribuah of the titurah there must be a "cut out" on both sides between the titurah and maabarta that creates the two back corners of the titurah and defines the ribuah of the titurah)

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  1. YankevAugust 15, 2018 at 4:18 PM

    Why not just fix it? (Although who knows what other problems these Tefillin have)

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  2. Yerachmiel AskotzkyAugust 15, 2018 at 7:38 PM

    It must and can easily be fixed but I agree with Yankev that if this was overlooked by the painter and one doing the assembly (likely 2 different people then this puts the batim and assembly into some doubt. I can understand how the merabea forgot to do it.

    A top pair of tefillin would be mechuvanim.

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