> But if, as the Talmud suggests (in the tractate "ketubot"), this
> "adornment" does indeed refer to TEFILLIN and TSE-TSE-OT, then this is
> the only occasion on which one may not wear these otherwise mandatory
> garments.
I am inclined to doubt that these were the adornments Ezekiel had in mind. I
would suggest that this Talmudic interpretation is a typical midrash, which
need not correspond to the simple plain meaning of the text.