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 sounds like a Jewish improv setup: A Chabad guy asks Larry David to lay tefillin. But this was real life, and the Lubavitcher, a 21-year-old self-starter named Yossi Farro, was asking in front ...

He met an old friend from the States who had made arrangements to borrow another person’s tefillin in Israel. “It didn’t make sense to me that in a Jewish country, borrowing a tefillin ...

Giving someone tefillin isn’t just handing them an object,” she told JNS. “It helps open up a whole world to them.” ...

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar met with Russian-Israeli freed hostage Alexander Sasha Troufanov to pray and put on tefillin on Sunday, according to the Jewish leader, who also shared that ...

Sasha Troufanov, released yesterday from Hamas captivity, met with Russia's Rabbi Berel Lazar on Sunday, who helped him put on Tefillin for the first time in his life. After putting on the ...

This is one of the reminders of the tefillin. Reb Yisroel Salanter, zt”l, zy”a, famously said that the greatest distance in the world between one point and another is the distance between the ...

I might not be able to focus on tefillin and war in the same split second ... itself against Russia’s invasion. The 42-year-old has spent the past weeks preparing for battle while lying ...

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