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Anyone have any ideas on how to unobtrusively remove the smell from tefillen, other than replacing the retzuos completely and redoing the whole bayis? There has to be something to put in the bag or to use in order to just remove the odor (not add any smells).
Anyone have any ideas or have tried anything that worked in the past?
Thanks!
Soak your batim in tomato juice for a week.
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This is a joke. I normally would not write that my post was a joke, for nearly all my posts are joke posts, but I do not want my joke post to passel your tefillin.Saddle soap is effective for cleaning and deodorizing leather. Is it permissible for use on tefillin?
It has a slight odor, but it’s a clean, “soapy” smell.
But I’m not sure it would be safe to use it on the batim, since the soap or water might penetrate the leather and damage the parchment.
Why not ask a sofer? The person who made your tefillin is probably the one who would know how to fix them.
Anyone who doesn’t like new-tefillin smell must be erev rav. New-tefillin smell is the best!
But, joking aside, the smell will go down over time. It comes from the straps, not the batim, but new ones would only be stronger.
What about something that can be put in the bag along with them to absorb odor?
You could try baking soda, maybe wrapped in some tissue paper or a paper towel.
Or Odor-Eaters Insoles. Would it be disrespectful to put in a tefillin bag something that’s intended to worn in a shoe?
Perhaps having the “smell” of new teffillin with you is a positive and removing it will have negative vibes….
Contact with skin and hair and being stored in a small leather bag imbues it with a less desirable odor.
What about replacing the bag with a new one, and leaving the bag open overnight so the tefillin can have more exposure to fresh air?
Would little pod-like ones work?
There’s only one way to find out.
leather that is moist smells. some from the leather itself, and some from the wearer that sweats so if you put your tfillin in the plastic shidel and into the tfillin beitel when it is moist, smelly bacteria will grow on it,and it eventually penetrates the batim and pasels the parshios so i f you are sweaty,don’t put your tfillin, in a place where it can’t dry out’, if you are a heavy sweater, then when your tfillin are dry completely.smear them litely with kosher olive oil, and let them dry again,some people need to do this every day, but only dry them in room temp. air,
heat can pasel the parshios/and mis/shape the batim /or exact rubiah i’ve found parshios that here mouldy and posul on a few occasions info by Eli Teitelbaum/sofer stamphone number removed
Regarding suggestions above about placing something else directly in the bag with the teffilin please see the Shulchan Aruch (או”ח סי’ מב:ג ) as that make be halachiclly problematic. As always as you LOR.
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