- Look up
phylactery or
phylacteries in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Phylactery may
refer to: Amulet, an
object believed to
confer protection upon its...
- pronunciation: [tfiˈlin];
Modern Hebrew pronunciation: [tefiˈlin]), or
phylacteries, are a set of
small black leather boxes with
leather straps containing...
- and a
phylactery." The
nature and
function of this
phylactery was not explained,: 61
though the word
exists in the real world,
where phylactery has several...
-
outside the clothing.
Tefillin (Hebrew: תְפִלִּין),
known in
English as
phylacteries (from the Gr**** word φυλακτήριον,
meaning sa****uard or amulet), are two...
- Paleo-Hebrew script.
According to
Halakha (Jewish
religious law),
tefillin (
phylacteries) and
mezuzot (door-post scripts) can only be
written in Ashurit. Ktav...
- that when
Rashi was
holding his
infant grandson, the baby
touched the
phylacteries (tefillin) that were on Rashi's head.
Rashi predicted that this grandson...
- of the
Missing Phylactery (PDF).
American Antiquarian Society.
Retrieved 15
February 2025. Friedman, Lee M. (1917). "The
Phylacteries Found at Pittsfield...
- [of Scripture]
differ from
phylacteries and
Mezuzahs only in that the
Books may be
written in any language,
while phylacteries and
Mezuzahs may be written...
- but
amulets were also made of stone, metal, bone, wood and gold.: 66
Phylacteries containing texts were
another common form of amulet. Like the Mesopotamians...
-
Jewish scribe who can
transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls),
tefillin (
phylacteries),
mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an
abbreviation of
these three terms) and other...
