Editing Mivtza Tefillin (section)

== Expressions and Instructions ==
In a number places the Rebbe connects 'Mivtza Tefillin' with what it brought in the name of [[The Baal Shem Tov]] on the words of the gemara that in Hashem's tefillin it says "who is like your people, Israel, one nation in the land" ("מי כעמך כישראל גוי אחד בארץ"). There are two types of tefillin, tefillin of the hand and tefillin of the head. The tefillin of the head symbolize the Jews who study Torah in depth, while the hand tefillin symbolize the simple Jews whose service of Hashem is expressed especially in simple actions, and according Halacha we put on the hand tefillin first, being that the primary pleasure above comes from the service of Hashem from these simple Jews.

The Rebbe expressed about himself: "I am passionate about Mivtza Tefillin" ("קאָך איך זיך במבצע תפילין").

The reason why specifically the mitzvah of tefillin was chosen to be a "Mivtza", the Rebbe himself explained is because it is a "General Mitzvah" ("מצוה כללית"), like our sages say that "the entire Torah is compared to tefillin" ("הוקשה כל התורה כולה לתפילין"), and also it is one of the first mitzvos which our ancestors took upon themselves in Egypt.

=== Instructions ===
(Partial list)
* The Rebbe instructed that Yeshiva students should only go out on Mivtza Tefillin in their free time and not during [[Seder|Sedorim]] (Yeshiva hours), on the contrary the Rebbe expressed that someone who says otherwise is not only not my [[Shliach]] (emissary) rather he is acting against me and against my instruction and against the [[Rebbe Rayatz]] and against the [[Rebbe Rashab]] who founded [[Tomchei Temimim]].
* To go out on [[mivtzoim]] only with a partner, not alone.
* To go with food and drink in order to give people so they can make a Brachah (blessing).
* Not to go in the first or last cart in the subway.