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But wasn’t it taught in a baraita that R' Oshaya says with regard to an amulet: As long as he does not hold it in his hand and carry it 4 cubits in the public domain? Apparently, even with regard to an amulet, there is a distinction between wearing it and carrying it.
Rather, with what are we dealing here? With an amulet that is covered in leather. Since the writing itself is covered, the name of God is not degraded when the amulet is brought into the latrine with him.
The Talmud objects. There is writing on the scrolls of tefillin, which is covered in the leather of boxes housing the scrolls, and nevertheless it was taught in a baraita: One who enters a latrine while wearing tefillin must remove the tefillin at a distance of 4 cubits and only then enter. There i
The Talmud rejects this: There, with regard to tefillin, the prohibition to enter the latrine is not due to the sacred writing on the scrolls inside the tefillin. Rather, it is due to the letter shin that protrudes from the leather of the boxes housing the scroll in the tefillin of the head, as Aba
We learned in the Mishnah: And he may neither go out with shiryon, nor with a kasda, nor with maggafayim. These terms were not understood, and therefore the Talmud explains them: