4. A knot that didn’t touch the Tefillin:
When someone puts on Tefillin of the arm and the yud isn’t touching the bayit , does this prevent him from having fulfilled his halachic obligation to put on Tefillin?
Answer: Ipso facto and in a case of emergency, he has fulfilled his Halachic obligation.
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