Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: תְּפִלִּין‎ / תְּפִילִּין‎; Ashkenazic pronunciation: [tfiˈlin]; Modern Hebrew pronunciation: [tefiˈlin]), or phylacteries, are...

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...

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

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...

an illustrative device denoting speech, song, or other types of sound Tefillin, a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

to serve as reminders to keep the Lord's commandments. Phylacteries or tefillin are boxes containing biblical verses attached to the forehead and arm by...

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...

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

these tefillin could date as early as—but not earlier than—the Hasmonean era, based on the Hebrew script of the Torah verses contained in the tefillin. The...

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Kol Yaakov: on the laws of writing torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot, as well as on the tefillin in general Yagel Yaakov: a compendium of Shabbat drashot...

campaigned for the upkeep of the Mitzvos of Tefillin and Mezuzos. He would write and lecture about Kosher Tefillin and Mezuzos and that small Mezuzos were...

Marriage Bereavement Yeshiva Kollel 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...

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

was adopted by R. Issachar, a learned scribe, who taught him to write tefillin, mezuzot, and Torah scrolls. Samson apparently traveled through Austria...

time-bound mitzvot, such as wrapping tefillin. The medieval halachic work Orach Chayyim precludes women who wish to wear tefillin from doing so. In ancient times...

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

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

Hungarian customs) they are worn only by men who are or have been married. Tefillin (phylacteries) are a set of small cubic leather boxes painted black, containing...

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