In other words, the lived experience of tefillin often emphasizes the container and the command more than the semantic ...

In 1823, Vermont Congregationalist minister Ethan Smith published “View of the Jews,” which featured the Pittsfield tefillin as a key argument for the “Hebraic Indian” theory. More intriguingly for ...

My son recently lost his Alter Rebbe’s ksav Tefillin while on Mivtzoim. Should I replace them with a high and lower-cost pairs?

Inspectors find tefillin without proper parchments and mezuzot missing entire words every single day. Discover why investing in high quality religious articles protects your family and lasts for ...

Tefillin are a sign for Israel-that is, a symbol and marker that expresses their very essence. The passages of the tefillin express the foundations of faith. One of these foundations is the centrality ...