mdd: I’m just as surprised with you. What reason do you have to connect Hilchos Chatzitzah in Niddah to T’fillin? Pashtus is there are two very different issues at hand here. One is about being M’akev the water (though I will be honest, I’m not perfectly clear on YD 198 whether a Chatzitzah is only about blocking the water or whether there are two types of Chatzitzos there as well) while by T’fillin we’re worried about creating a Hefsek between where the T’fillin are supposed to be and where they actually are.
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