Tefillin are reminders of God's laws.

A step-by-step guide to putting on tefillin to pray in the morning.

The clothing of Jewish prayer.

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Evidence from Qumran shows that the medieval debate about the order of biblical passages in tefillin has ancient roots.  

How to mark the middle days of the eight-day festival.

Commemorating the foundational event in Jewish history makes Jews who they are.

The details of this precept, using powerful symbols of allegiance to divine law and of membership in the Jewish religious community, have been subject to many interpretations.

Some interpretations of the meaning of tefillin have faded, and others have been invented to take their place.

When I lived in Nashville I got used to the people at the airport pulling out my tefillin and getting ...