As I write this essay, the January 2025 ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, is still in place. The first three hostages have been returned to their families. May that ceasefire still be in place by ...

He agrees, we do tefillin together, take a picture,” Farro said in an interview, using the Hebrew word for the small black boxes observant Jews bind to their head and arm on weekdays ...

It connects those who have tefillin — leather straps attached to a set of two small boxes containing scripture on parchment — with Jews who need them for morning prayers or other rituals.

An curved arrow pointing right. One of the most sacred objects in Judaism is made of skin from a bull's neck. It's called tefillin, and each black box contains scrolls that must be written by hand.

It’s not unusual to see Chabadniks wrapping tefillin around men’s arms, and reciting and explaining the blessings, but it’s less familiar when the setting is prison and the pupils are convicts.

The tallith katan is a smaller tallith which is worn by many Jews as an undergarment between their T-shirt and jumper at all times. The reason for wearing the tefillin is based on a biblical law ...

Our sages explain that in the merit of Jewish men wrapping tefillin our enemies will fear us. With all the miracles we have seen since 10/7, I believe that the incredible 3,000-plus people who ...

Not just because it's a physical way to literally tie into Judaism and to prepare for prayer and not just because it's the same action that my father, sheyichyehi, my grandfather, and my ancestors hav ...

The tefillin is worn by Jewish men during morning prayer. The leather boxes usually contain scrolls of parchment with verses from the Torah Reform close Reform JewsJews who have adapted their laws ...