[Loch-Ruadh] FW: Word of the Day: Tefillin

[Jane Sitton]

tefillin (teh FIL in)

noun

Small leather boxes with long leather straps, worn by the rabbi
and other Jewish men during weekday morning prayers in Orthodox
or Conservative synagogues. Men wear one box over their foreheads
and the other one on their left arms. Inside the leather boxes
are slips of parchment inscribed with scriptural passages
reminding worshippers to keep the Jewish law.

     Rabbi Markowitz explained that tefillin are handwritten on
     consecrated parchment and that the boxes are perfectly
     shaped squares made from a kosher hide.