Removed Tefillin Before the End of Prayer
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Question
Hello Rabbi, A person who is in the Shacharit prayer at Tachanun feels the need to relieve himself while wearing tefillin, removes the tefillin, and goes to relieve himself. When he returns, 1. Should he put on the tefillin again? 2. Should he recite the blessing?
Answer
Hello Rabbi
1. There is no obligation to put on the tefillin again, but the poskim have written not to remove the tefillin before Kedusha and Uva Letzion, or the Kaddish that follows it, and therefore it is good to put on the tefillin again until the appropriate time to remove them.
2. One must recite the blessing again.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, Siman 25, Sif 13
It is customary not to remove the tefillin until after the Kedusha and Uva Letzion (Isaiah 47:11). Some have written based on Kabbalah not to remove them until three Kedushas and four Kaddishes have been recited, which is after the Kaddish Yatom, and this is the practice of those who are meticulous.
Mishna Berura, Siman 25, Sif Katan 47