15 Responses

1. Umm when you have it on wrong it’s not a mitzvah כדמבואר בכל הפוסקים. So obviously the tears are not coming from the mitzvah if he wasn’t יוצא על פי דין. My only real beef is that these guys are spending so much energy and mesirus nefesh to get tefillin on people at least spend a minute to get it on right otherwise the whole thing is a waste

2. I don’t think I’ve read a more disgusting comment in my life…..why don’t you ask your rosh yeshiva to explain to you how this works because you are obviously lost….. saw

3. Saying Shema is also a mitzva. Trying to do a mitzvah is also a mitzvah. He is definitely an אונס in how to put on tefillin

4. What a hater!

   Rather than acknowledging the journalist’s respectful act of putting on Tefillin with an elderly Jew, despite not being Chabad themselves, you seem to discredit anyone who engages in such actions..

5. While I don’t agree with the 1st comment (ANON21), since I didn’t notice any obvious discrepancies in the way he was wearing the tefillin which would invalidate the Mitzvah, I do agree that the emotion is probably not a result of “kiyum haMitzvah”. Perhaps he was overcome by the thought of giving up his confirmed “atheism”.

6. terrible how the Zionists deprived a Yid of such a mitzva as Reb Uri said we were robbed.

7. @ANON21 Please! The point of doing this type of thing is that they get connected. He said Shema for the 1st time (per the article) So forsure there is some mitzvah Chilchasa being done. This is a beautifal video, if your gut reaction is to critizise and not be inspired your heart is made of stone. And my beef is, i wonder with a heart like that how can you do any Mitzvos properly?

8. ANON21
   I don’t want to guess which “group “ you belong to (though I can imagine), especially not in these nine days.
   But you’re wrong (certainly on your first point).
   רחמנא ליבא בעי. He was crying because of his Neshamah having the Ratzon to do a Mitzvah and in his eyes he did so.

9. The shel rosh is for sure on good. The shel yad maybe

10. BH. He graduated from “Karkafta d’Lo manach tefillin”. Tizku l’mitvot yoter.

11. B”H what a beautiful video, made my day! We need more of that. IT was a sincere emotion from doing a Mitzvo for the first time.
    It’s not even worth commenting some comments here, hard to believe it can come a ‘religious’ jew… look at the amazing deed of this man at 81!!! Sadly not every person that haven’t been raised frum can be zoche to do a mitzvoh. Better would be YWN to disable the comments, it can have loshon horo. A healthy exercise is to try to see zechus in every yid, specially from the most simple …

12. first of all being moche on someone publicly wrongdoing a mitzvah is not called loshon harah this may even be done on a yom kippur shechal lihyos b’shobbos. 2nd of all He was mekayem the mitzvah of shel rosh so he had every reason to wanna cry

13. This is a beautiful and moving moment. He says “no one ever put tefillin on for me ever in my whole life (till now)”. Look at how moved he is to realize his yerusha: Torah and mitzvos.
    May he and all our brothers and sisters continue to come closer.
    I live in Israel and try my best to always make a positive impression on the “not yet frum”.

14. whilst this is a moving encounter (if it is true this guy WAS an athiest),
    it would do for ANON 21 to remember that the name anon is not perticularly a nice name to identify as (the son of yehudah who died for waisting ****).

    one thing that i noticed before seeing different comments especially the first comment from ANON21 which simply put is vile and non-sensical, is that the kesher for the hand is clearly sefardi (and he says he did the shkenazi one) but made the guy say al mitzvas tefillin, which sefardim don’t make, in fact our poskim hold it to be a beracha levatala.

15. A. If he is an atheist, he is incapable of performing a mitzvah