Tefillin

The Mitzvah that binds our minds with our hearts and deeds, and allows a daily reunification within ourselves and with G-d. Tefillin: the what, the why, and the how-to.

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.

An enigma among human rituals: Black leather boxes containing parchment scrolls inscribed in meticulous accordance with the criteria of an ageless scribal art. Not to be read, but to be worn . . .

Tefilin teach us that true faith is having a picture that corresponds with the essential truth.

The Mitzvah that binds our minds with our hearts and deeds, and allows a daily reunification within ourselves and with G-d.

A short animated film on how to put on tefillin.

Last night, you charged your cell phone, your laptop, your ebook reader, your video camera, your hand vacuum, your power drill and your cell phone bluetooth earpiece. Now it's time to charge your Jewish soul--with Tefillin!

I suppose every twenty-year-old should have an eighty-eight-year-old friend

"Tell me, Rabbi," he called out anxiously, "if... if I put on tefillin, will G-d protect me?"

"This was all good and well," explained the old navy diver, "when the ship had been under for a month or so. After that it would begin to rust and the hooks would bring up only huge chunks of iron, leaving the rest of the ship behind"