Shalom.
This video is about Tefillin, the English word from Greek is phylacteries. You have Tefillin bag and in the bag you have a set of Tefillin, now there is two. They are a little bit different, one goes on the head and one goes on the weaker arm. The left arm usually if you are right handed. I will show you, here is one it looks like. It is got a leather, Hebrew leather shin and then here is the four prolonged shin. There also has and it is really, it is kind of a hard to see but there are divisions here in this box, you can see now the four different pieces there. That is because there are four independent pieces of Torah in there. Torah likes script which has the commandment to put this on. The manners straps because this one which you put at out actually second goes on the head so it is one everyday about the Sabbath just like this. Make sure to keepers stays in place then you have the bebekler on second.
Now, the first that goes on is the one for the arm called a yad and if you can see here, there is no division in there. Which is one same tack but one small scroll rub up that is there? And the way it goes on is, you put it on your arm and you take your watch off and your ring, it goes on your arm under your shirt and you get this standing up, but if I stood up you would not see it from the camera. And then Jews from here wrap it this way and we do it seven times between the elbows and the hand.
Now there is two different commandments, separate commandments because in the first paragraph, we say off the Shema is you should by numbers a sign upon your hand in from it between your eyes, so they are separate commandments. Now, once you get it this far, there is a some different ways to wrap it but it goes around your fingers and I am not going to do it and take this other videos that you show you exactly slowly how to do it. One interesting thing is that when you wrap it like this, you have the Hebrew letter shin there and if you the whole hands spell out the words Shadai, one of the name of God.
Now, there is two blessings, the first has the normal blessing for a commandment (foreign language) Tefillin to put the Tefillin on. And the other is the same blessing or formula (foreign language) Tefillin for the Mitzvah of Tefillin.
Now, why we wear while it is double commandment, the Torah says you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for fragments between your eyes. There is actually only three things in the Torah that are called a sign and oath. One of them is Tefillin the other is the Tallit, the prayer shawl, put the fringes and the third is Shabbath. Now, Rabbi said you only need two signs to God everyday so if you are already have the Tallit and you have Shabbath, you do not need Tefillin, that is why we do not wear it on the Sabbath, but we wear it the rest of the year when there is not a holiday or the Sabbath.
Also in English, they has the word phylacteries, sounds like prophylactic and it is really the way it is most to function as a sense of keeping you reminded about the presence in all of God. We wear only in the morning, except on the fast day, we wear it in the afternoon. One funny story I have kind of interesting I learned when I was a teenager; I went to Israel for the first time when I went to visit my all through worth next relatives. I stayed over Shabbath and on Sunday morning, I liked to pray, we put our Tefillin in. In the middle of the service, they started taking their Tefillin off. But there are a couple of days in the Jewish calendar when you do that. The monthly new moon service, but it was not those day and I did not know why they were doing it. And I was very perplex, and then one of my cousins explained to me that the Tefillin that I had and that most people had, that all people have our based on the order of the scrolls according to one great Rabbi named Rash, but his grandson is called the tosefot had, one of them had a different idea of the way which we should order those. And this particular group of Kasedem, there the others who do it too, did not want to decide which pair of Tefillin is right, and so they have them both, so they wear one for half of the service and the other for half the service. Any case, they once said is enough for me.
There is also a different sizes of Tefillin. This is actually you know is small, they have smaller size of Bat mitzvah, they can be quite expensive because it is leather and they have to be hand written on animal parchment by a special scribe but it really starts off a day beautifully and it is very spiritual. And it helps remind you about the presence of God. So this is Tefillin, plural, of course the word Tefilli is prayer and I hope people will take it seriously.
The question about women wearing Tefillin is historically very few who wear Tefillin. There is a story of Rashi, the great man evil Rabbi’s daughter wore Tefillin cause he did not have any son and now a days, more traditional women are starting to wear them. In the conservative camping movement at camp Roman, there are very few woman that are wearing them and they were certainly permitted to and the rabbinical student are the Jewish etiological seminary had got the similar issue about wearing the garment that was traditionally associated with men, the prayer shawl and Tefillin but now wearing it as woman.
One final story the Toma, the great holy cord of Judaism, says that God wore Tefillin. And what doe it say in God Tefillin, cause Arabs says that we should fulfill the mitzvah of wearing Tefillin to honor God and God’s Tefillin it says that my great Nation Israel. All of the Tefillin are black; we do not have multi colors. They are all made out of this leather product. All of Jews are the same in wearing that Tefillin.
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