Re: Knot Shape on Tefilin Shel Rosh

Moshe Shulman (mshulman@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 18 Aug 1996 16:29:29 -0700

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Benjamin Cohen <soferim@netvision.net.il> wrote:
>The knot (kesher) used depends on one's ethnic heritage (aida).
>Ashkenazim (German / Lithuanian) and the Talmedai HaGR"A use the square
>"double Daled," Sfardim (Mediterranean) and Chasidim use the "single Daled"
>and there is a third knot refered to as the Hoari which is used by some
>mystics (Mekubalim) and a few chasidim.

Let me add some comment here. The minhag of the Chasidim that I know
(particularly in Bobov, and similar groups) is that they use a double-dalet
that is like a box. The Rebbe and some of his children use what we call the
'Tzanzer Kesher' which as you point out is the custom of the Ari, and looks
like two dalets.

Moshe Shulman
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