Q: If tzitizis and teffillin are so beneficial, why don't women
use them? And what do they have instead?
A: The truth. is women do have it, because when men put tzitzis
and tefillin, they're not putting it on for themselves. That’s absolutely not
true. Every father puts on tzitzis and tefllin for all of his children and for
his wife, too. There's no question that tzitzis and tefillin are the property
of the Am Yisroel. But, more precisely, the family shares in all the mitzvos. So
while he's putting on tzitzis and tefillin in the shull, let's say, and his
wife is taking care of the children at home, somebody has to remain at home -
he couldn't go to the synagogue if she weren't home. There's no question that it’s
her tzitzis and her tefillin. That's the way to understand it. It's silly
otherwise! And when he comes to study Torah in the evening, who will babysit?
And, therefore, she has one hundred percent partnership in all that the does.
Q&A: Thursday Nights with Rabbi Miller, pp. 189-190.
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