- Q. Someone who was balding, did a procedure in Europe where they transplant hair. He now has what seems to be regular hair growing where he was completely bald before. The question is since we know that placement of the Tefilin Shel Rosh is supposed to be above the hairline, and if it’s past the hairline one does not fulfill his obligation, so if they added more hair than he ever had, essentially extending his hairline past where it was when he had hair, would he now be Yotzei by placing the tefilin by the new hairline, or must he put them higher to where the hairline originally started. I would also like to ask if there is an issue with this transplanted hair being a chatzitza between the hair and the tefilin, and if that has any bearing on the first question. Thank you!
A. Horav Aharon Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one must indeed put them higher to where the hairline originally started.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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