Tefillin

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 392 words | Copyright

Tefillin. Jewish phylacteries. According to Exodus 13. 1–10, 11–16; Deuteronomy 6. 4–9 and 11. 13–21, a Jew must bind ‘these words for a sign upon your hand and a frontlet between your eyes’. This commandment is fulfilled by binding two small leather boxes containing these scriptural passages around the head and left arm by means of leather straps.

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