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A brief treatise on the significance of this important Mitzvah, including some basic laws, prayers and diagrams.
By Alexander Cowen
In addition to a discussion of the profound effect tefillin have upon the mind and heart, this booklet also includes practical laws, detailed photographs, translations and transliterations of the appropriate blessings, plus the Shema prayer.
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Some things to keep in mind and look out for when you put on tefillin
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Tefillin are mentioned over 500 times in the Talmud, in groundlaying deliberations of laws and lore. We present here some of the salient discussions, translated and annotated for accessible study
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Excerpts from the Mishneh Torah, the Rambam's magnum opus of Halacha, on Tefillin.
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By Yerachmiel Askotzky
A detailed look into the process of making tefillin, including the laws that pertain to the quill, ink, parchment and straps
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By Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson; Translated by Eliyahu Touger
The Chassidic discourse that describes the potency of the mitzvah of tefillin, recited by boys at their bar mitzvah
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