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Because whatever offers more protection is preferable even at the cost of deprecation. And where under his head does he place them? R' Yirmeya said: He places them between the pillow and the mattress, not directly aligned with his head but rather a bit to the side.
The Talmud asks: Didn’t R' Ḥiyya teach a baraita that in that case he places them in a pouch used for tefillin, directly under his head? The Talmud replies: He does so in a manner that the bulge in the pouch, where the tefillin are, protrudes out and is not beneath his head.
On this note, the Talmud relates that Bar Kappara would tie them in his bed curtain and project their bulge outward. Rav Sheisha, son of Rav Idi, would place them on a bench and spread a cloth over them.
Rav Hamnuna, son of Rav Yosef, said: I was once standing before Rava and he told me: Go and bring me my tefillin. And I found them in his bed, between the mattress and the pillow, not aligned with his head. And I knew that it was the day of his wife’s immersion in the mikveh for purification from th
Rav Yosef, son of Rav Neḥunya, who raised a dilemma above, raised a dilemma before Rav Yehuda: Two individuals sleeping in a single bed, given that it was standard practice to sleep without clothing, what is the halakha; is it permissible for this one to turn his head aside and recite Shema and for