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One may take a quick nap in his tefillin, but he may not sleep in them.

Summary

Question: What is considered “just a nap”?

Beraisa of Rami bar Yechezkel: The time it takes to walk 100 amos.

We learned in a beraisa also thus: Rabbi Yaakov: If one sleeps with his tefillin and has a seminal emission, he should remove his tefillin by taking hold of the straps but he shouldn’t touch the tefillin (as a sign of respect).

Chachomim: One may take a quick nap in his tefillin, but he may not sleep in them. A quick nap is the time that it takes to walk 100 amos.

Rav: During the day one is forbidden to sleep more than a horse sleeps (this was a great generation for whom the Torah was life, sleeping during the day was giving up one’s life). A horse’s sleep is 60 breaths (nowadays many people sleep more than that because this was said to a great generation. Rav wouldn’t issue such a decree if people couldn’t withstand it).

Abayye: My rebbe [Rabbah] would sleep as per Rav’s instruction. Rav learned this from Rebbe and Rebbe Learned it from Dovid. Dovid slept like a horse (a horse sometimes naps between deliveries). A horse’s sleep is 60 breaths.

Bei Kuvi was a town near Pumbedisa. Abayye once allowed himself the ‘luxury’ of sleeping for the short amount of time it takes to travel from Pumbedisa to Bei Kuvi. Rav Yosef rebuked him with a possuk in Mishlei: “How long, you lazy one, will you lie in bed? When will you arise from sleep?” (We see from Abayye’s previous statement extolling his teacher that in Abayye’s generation it was already difficult to uphold the standard of Dovid Hamelech. We see also that Abayye slept more than Rav Yosef).

Beraisa: Rabbi Nosson: If one would like to nap during the day (it means a short nap) he may remove his tefillin if he so wishes, or he may leave them on. But at night he must remove them (even if he merely wishes to nap. Because at night he may forget himself and lie with his wife).

Rabbi Yosi: Young men must always remove their tefillin because young people are more likely to get tamei.

Question: Does Rabbi Yosi hold that a baal keri is forbidden to wear tefillin?

Abayye: He is referring to a young man who is with his wife, we’re concerned that he may forget about his tefillin and lie with her.

Beraisa: If one forgot and came upon his wife while wearing tefillin, he cannot remove it even by taking hold of the straps until he washes his hands, because his hands may have touched an unclean place. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate