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they will protect me. Although there were people on hand to whom he could have handed the tefillin, he kept them to protect himself from danger. Rava said: When we would walk after R' Naḥman, we would see that when he was holding a book of aggada, he would give it to us. When he was holding tefill
A baraita states: One may not hold tefillin in his hand or a Torah scroll in his arm and pray, because his concern that the tefillin or Torah scroll might fall will distract him from his prayer. And so too, with regard to sacred objects, one may not urinate with them in his hands and may not sleep
Rava said that Rav Sheshet said: The halakha is not in accordance with this baraita, because it is in accordance with the opinion of Beit Shammai. As if it was in accordance with the opinion of Beit Hillel, now Beit Hillel permitted to hold tefillin in his hand when he defecates in a regular latrine
The Talmud raised an objection based on the second part of the baraita, where it was taught: Matters which I permitted you to do here, I prohibited you from doing there. In other words, there are matters that were permitted in a regular latrine and not in a makeshift latrine. What, is it not referr
This challenge is rejected by the Talmud, which explains: When that baraita was taught it was not in reference to tefillin, but with regard to the matter of one handbreadth and two handbreadths. As is it was taught in one baraita: When one relieves himself, he must maintain modesty and bare a singl