Putting on Tefillin after Sunset

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Question

All my life I have put on tefillin every day, and now I have discovered to my dismay that today is the first day I haven't done so. Am I still allowed to put them on?

Answer

At this moment, it is already after sunset, but hurry to put them on without a blessing because there are opinions that it is still considered day. However, I want to raise another topic: the evil inclination tries to destroy our motivation, but our task is to overcome it, and the first rule is to recognize its methods. One of the forces that creates immense motivation to succeed is the wonderful feeling from Bar Mitzvah until today, putting on tefillin every day without missing even once, and against this, the evil inclination fights with all its might. It tries to make a person fall in various ways to create a first time to ruin the challenge, and without challenge and motivation, the evil inclination knows that, God forbid, there will be a second time and then a third, and may God have mercy on what will come. However, the sages taught us a winning formula: when a person decides to take on a new challenge, there will never be a second time, and he works on himself and understands that this challenge is much more than just a challenge.

Source

Avodah Zarah (4b) "David was not worthy of that act" etc.

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