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    Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: תְּפִלִּין‎ / תְּפִילִּין‎; Ashkenazic pronunciation: [tfiˈlin]; Modern Hebrew pronunciation: [tefiˈlin]), or phylacteries, are...
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  • Tefillin Barbie is a creation of Jen Taylor Friedman, first produced in 2006. It is a Mattel Barbie doll wearing a tallit and tefillin. Tefillin Barbie...
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    campaigns for additional mitzvot as well. Tefillin: Men (age 13 and up) are encouraged to wear the tefillin every morning excluding Shabbat (the sabbath...
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    obligation to lay tefillin begins when a boy reaches bar mitzvah age. The common custom is for the bar mitzvah boy to begin putting on tefillin one to three...
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  • nevertheless, in recent years a number of "tefillin minyanim" have started in Israel. Among those who do wear tefillin on Chol HaMoed, some omit or recite the...
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    סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three...
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  • Michael Johnston, an Episcopalian rector, connects the sign to laying tefillin, denoting that the word of God will take residence within the person making...
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  • an illustrative device denoting speech, song, or other types of sound Tefillin, a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls...
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    purchase a tallit gadol for their sons at the age of 13, together with tefillin, though among the orthodox a male child will have been wearing a tallit...
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    head tefillin. Regardless of the episode's veracity, Rabbeinu Tam did disagree with the opinion of his antecedent. Today, both "Rashi tefillin" and "Rabbeinu...
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