Chacham Ovadia Yosef is shown below wearing tefillin. I've never seen this style of tefillin wrapping. Is this of a particular group or minhag?
"Ovadia Yosef, 2007" by Talsardar at the Hebrew Wikipedia, used with permission under CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sign up to join this communityChacham Ovadia Yosef is shown below wearing tefillin. I've never seen this style of tefillin wrapping. Is this of a particular group or minhag?
"Ovadia Yosef, 2007" by Talsardar at the Hebrew Wikipedia, used with permission under CC BY-SA 3.0
This wrapping is in accordance with the Yemenite(Teiman) custom.
Source: Nitei Gavriel Halachos V'Halichos Bar Mitzvah V'Hanachos Tefillin.