Can you use your grandfathers / Zeides Tefillin? Can you use old Tefillin?

Passing down from one generation to the next. Can you use your grandfathers / Zeides Tefillin?
Do Tefillin last forever? Can you use old Tefillin?
0:00 Introduction and perspective
5:45 What are the risks?
8:00 Taking a closer look at older Tefillin, the inside.
12:25 Cracking and fading letters
15:50 Older boxes and straps are all worn out.

[@TheSoferCenter]

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[@zax8914]

I recently acquired a set from my great grandfather. I'm adopted and the parents in that line are closer in age to my biological grandparents. I'm 34. The set was from someone born in the 19th century. Had them buried through a congregation. I read some traditions bury people with Tefilin, Tallis, and Yamulke. To me this was fulfilling another separate mitzvah letting the dead rest. I already have a set.

[@esamnathan5017]

I never expected such a distinction between parshiot of different eras, it’s a remarkable shift in quality in modern tefillin

[@MrChippinator]

Even today there are some very poor quality tefillin being made. Take the ones from my Bar Mitzvah. Turns out they were never Kosher to begin with. I really don’t think we have the oversight today either. Since that experience, I only buy Mezuzot and Tefillin from a certified sofer or from a store with a sofer on staff as they check everything that comes in through the door and install the parchments into the batim themselves like you do yourself. This channel is great btw and provides some very useful information.

[@Jason-Jason]

Thank You for sharing this Chochmah, may Hashem bestow you and your business with abundant Berakhah into the new year ^_^

[@Stefano50]

Thank you......... this is very helpful and educational regarding the mysteries of Tefillin.

[@masonmarks466]

Tefillin is such a great mitzva and you are enabling that for people as a sofer... thank you my friend 🤠

[@user-ri2oj6yz6c]

I actually thought it was going to be about if the kedusha was greater after holy people used them. Or the opposite if people wore them with not holy thoughts which we wouldn't know.
Or even if they were written with great kavanos, on every tag etc.

[@JewishKeto]

If they did last forever I’d be concerned about the Kashrut of them!

[@rich2785]

Rabbi, if the Baton and the Retzuos is still in good shape, can the Parhios be replaced? Just curious.

[@TheSoferCenter]

It depends, like I mentioned in the video some of the older boxes are a smaller size so it's hard to find the correct size Parshios. And having to write them custom size can be very expensive. One thing I didn't say in the video was that the boxes from the 50s and the 60s in America we're a very basic and very poor quality box, so even if we could write new Parshios for them I wouldn't recommend using those boxes. Going to save the explanation of the different types of boxes for another video.

[@rich2785]

@@TheSoferCenter Thank you Rabbi.

[@swyman10]

Mine were my great grandfather’s, they were certified Kosher about 25 years ago, but now the Yod box is chipping & small pieces are falling off. He brought them with him when they came to America in 1907 from Poland.

[@ketronjapan]

You weren't kidding about finding the oversized batim...I just got mine back after almost a year. The parashas were beautiful after over 100 years but the boxes were no longer useable. I could not find any protective covers for this size. Any suggestions?

[@swyman10]

@@ketronjapan The boxes on mine are the small size but I never had any protective covers. I don’t have them for my 2nd set either that were recently sent to me by my dad’s Rabbi. I am using them now while I decide what to do about my great Zada’s Tiffillin. I wish you well ☮️.

[@jeffgoesrandom4217]

Cracked letters? I think G-d can read it. 🙂

[@TheSoferCenter]

I cannot disagree with that! But the halachah requires the letters to be whole.
Would anybody suggest that a helmet with small cracks in it would be just as effective because it still looks like a helmet?

[@jeffgoesrandom4217]

@@TheSoferCenter I don't think there is anything in the Jewish religion that mentions cracked or even helmets. ;-) I am sticking with faith that once the letters are written, they are always there. Forever.