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Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: תְּפִלִּין / תְּפִילִּין; Ashke****c pronunciation: [tfiˈlin];
Modern Hebrew pronunciation: [tefiˈlin]), or phylacteries, are...
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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...
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campaigns for
additional mitzvot as well.
Tefillin: Men (age 13 and up) are
encouraged to wear the
tefillin every morning excluding Shabbat (the sabbath...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- tiny
scrolls containing individual verses of the
Jewish scriptures (see
Tefillin) to huge
polyglot codices (multi-lingual books)
containing both the Hebrew...
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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...
- post-Talmudic
periods the
tefillin were worn by
rabbis and
scholars all day, and a
special tallit was worn at prayer;
hence they put on the
tefillin before the tallit...
- head
tefillin.
Regardless of the episode's veracity,
Rabbeinu Tam did
disagree with the
opinion of his antecedent. Today, both "Rashi
tefillin" and "Rabbeinu...
