Tefillin (/ˈtfɪlɪn/; Israeli Hebrew: תְּפִלִּין‎ / תְּפִילִּין‎; Ashkenazic pronunciation: [tfiˈlin]), or phylacteries, are a set of small black leather...

campaigns for additional mitzvot as well. Tefillin: Men (age 13 and up) are encouraged to wear the tefillin every morning excluding Shabbat (the sabbath...

nevertheless, in recent years a number of "tefillin minyanim" have started in Israel. Among those who do wear tefillin on Chol HaMoed, some omit or recite the...

obligation to lay tefillin begins when a boy reaches bar mitzvah age. The common custom is for the bar mitzvah boy to begin putting on tefillin one to three...

Tefillin Barbie is a creation of Jen Taylor Friedman, first produced in 2006. It is a Mattel Barbie doll wearing a tallit and tefillin. Tefillin Barbie...

סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three...

phylacteries in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phylactery may refer to: Tefillin, a set of boxes with straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with...

purchase a tallit gadol for their sons at the age of 13, together with tefillin, though among the orthodox a male child will have been wearing a tallit...

requiring rabbinic explanation include: Tefillin: As indicated in Deuteronomy 6:8 among other places, tefillin are to be placed on the arm and on the head...

head tefillin. Regardless of the episode's veracity, Rabbeinu Tam did disagree with the opinion of his antecedent. Today, both "Rashi tefillin" and "Rabbeinu...

tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew...

allow the laying of tefillin by women.[citation needed] Some Orthodox communities claim that women are not permitted to lay tefillin, as is required by...

center of the Grand Mosque of Mecca; it is the most sacred site in Islam Tefillin, a small black leather cube used by Jews during prayer This disambiguation...

Marriage Bereavement Yeshiva Kolel Cheder Ritual objects Sefer Torah Tallit Tefillin Tzitzit Kippah Mezuzah Menorah Shofar Four species Etrog Lulav Hadass Arava...

commandments needing further explanation are: Tefillin: As indicated in Deuteronomy 6:8 among other places, tefillin are to be placed on the arm and on the head...

progressive Jewish women choose to take on the obligations of tzitzit and tefillin, and it has become common for a girl to receive a tallit when she becomes...

specific Jewish traditional writing with which holy scrolls (Sifrei Kodesh), tefillin and mezuzot are written. Stam is a Hebrew acronym denoting these writings...

letter shin on the head tefillin has a different calligraphy than on the Ashkenazi tefillin. The script used in Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot is different...

the Paleo-Hebrew script. According to Halakha (Jewish religious law), tefillin (phylacteries) and mezuzot (door-post scripts) can only be written in Ashurit...

Lubavitch movement directed his male followers around the world to wear tefillin (small leather boxes) during morning prayers. In the Arab nations, populations...

"[t]he acronym for Shabbos is: Shtreimel Bimkom Tefillin - the shtreimel takes the place of tefillin." Since wearing special clothing on Shabbat is a...

Marriage Bereavement Yeshiva Kolel Cheder Ritual objects Sefer Torah Tallit Tefillin Tzitzit Kippah Mezuzah Menorah Shofar Four species Etrog Lulav Hadass Arava...

circles, the fringes are allowed to hang freely outside the clothing. Tefillin (Hebrew: תְפִלִּין), known in English as phylacteries (from the Greek word...

the head-Tefillin and the shape of the Yod on the arm-tefillin, Halacha le-Moshe mi-Sinai. The letter "shin" embossed on the head-Tefillin, Halacha le-Moshe...

Chabad.org. Retrieved May 17, 2022. Maimonides; Eliyahu Touger (2010). Tefillin, Mezuzah and Sefer Torah - Chapter Five. Retrieved May 17, 2022. "How to...

such as Chuts. Ashkenazi tefillin bear some differences from Sephardic tefillin. In the traditional Ashkenazic rite, the tefillin are wound towards the body...

found on tefillin – a set of two black leather boxes strapped to head and arm during the prayers. The binding of particular knots of tefillin is supposed...

Marriage Bereavement Yeshiva Kolel Cheder Ritual objects Sefer Torah Tallit Tefillin Tzitzit Kippah Mezuzah Menorah Shofar Four species Etrog Lulav Hadass Arava...

control in 1967, a stand of the Chabad movement offering phylacteries (tefillin) was erected with permission from Rabbi Yehuda Meir Getz, the first rabbi...

Shai Held Elie Kaunfer Tucker, Ethan (January 26, 2014). "Gender and tefillin: Possibilities and consequences". Times of Israel. Sherman, Randi (April...