Tefillin are a sign for Israel-that is, a symbol and marker that expresses their very essence. The passages of the tefillin ...
You can learn how to do pretty much anything on YouTube. There are tutorials for decorative fruit carving, moonwalking, building a turbo jet engine, preparing for the apocalypse and, of course, how to ...
Q: It is well known that there is a mitzvah to wear tefillin all day, and that this was indeed the practice in earlier times. Why, then, don’t we encourage the public-especially yeshiva students-to ...
There are literally hundreds of different ways of choosing, wrapping, and storing a set of tefillin [phylacteries]. Eichler’s Judaica superstore offers more than 2,000 tefillin-related items for ...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — You can call a taxi, order a hamburger, rent a film and buy a book with a few clicks of a smartphone. So why shouldn’t it be as easy to score a set of tefillin? That, at least, was ...
JERUSALEM (RNS) – On a bustling street corner in downtown Jerusalem earlier this month, a group of determined Jewish women performed a commandment long reserved for men. Standing in front of a table ...
Rachel Putterman, a 52-year-old rabbinical student, raised over $5,000 to film a tutorial featuring a diverse set of Jews. (JTA) — Rachel Putterman never learned how to put on tefillin when she was ...
When Ze’ev was niftar a few years ago, his wife, three sons and daughter were discussing what to do with his tefillin. He had a new pair written not long before his petirah and the family were blessed ...
On Jan. 21, a plane was diverted after a flight attendant noticed a “ suspicious passenger” strap an object to his wrist and his head. The culprit? Tefillin, prayer accessories for observant Jews. In ...
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