Tefillin

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All of Torah is wrapped up in these leather straps and boxes with their finely written parchment scrolls.

Because this is the essence of every mitzvah:

To bind your heart, your mind and your action together into a single wholeness, wrapped up inextricably with the One who spoke and the world came into being.

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Tzedakah

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By Tzvi Freeman

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. Subscribe and get your dose daily. To order Rabbi Freeman’s latest book, Wisdom to Heal the Earth, click here.

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Adele Jakarta March 13, 2023

Shalom. I like the expression to bind our heart, mind and action into a single wholeness. ( to G-d the Creator). Reply

Naomi Garbo OKC April 22, 2021

Dear Rabbi Freeman,
This is Naomi Garbo. I purchased your book awhile ago. (Bringing Heaven Down To Earth). I also appreciate all your internet daily devotions. I am a woman living alone. Are women in my situation, expected to learn "Tefillin "? My father, husband, and all the men in my circle, have passed onto ?? Reply

Tzvi Freeman April 22, 2021

in response to Naomi Garbo:

Naomi, there's so much a Jew can do.

Like making sure you have proper mezuzahs on all your doorways. The scroll inside has to be written by a proficient scribe on authentic parchment.

Or giving a little tzedakah each day. You can keep a tzedakah box in your home and put any loose coins in every morning.

Or learning your way through the Siddur (the Jewish prayerbook) and saying those prayers with real focus of the heart and mind each day.

Or studying Torah each morning and night. Keeping kosher. Visiting the lonely people at a retirement home. Listening to those who need an open ear.

So many mitzvahs all waiting for your soul. But tefillin is not something expected of you right now. Reply

Naomi Garbo OKC April 24, 2021

in response to Tzvi Freeman:

Toda Rabbi Freeman. I already do everything on your list. There is only one thing lacking, that being my mezuzah. Mine is old and in need of new scroll. I will try contacting the new rabbi in my community to ........maybe buy a new one or use my old one until ready.
Shalom and thanks again Reply

Jeffrey Perlman Miami March 13, 2023

in response to Tzvi Freeman:

No requirement to DO teffilin. But fer sure, learn. Knowledge Is power Reply

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