Teffilin

Ex-hostage Sasha Troufanov wraps tefillin with Russian chief rabbi day after release

After nearly 500 days, Sasha was freed from Gaza captivity. The next morning, he turned to his faith.

 Sasha Troponov meets with the chief rabbi of Russia the morning after his release.
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The hidden dangers of STaM: When STaM goes unscrutinized

 AN IDF soldier prays near Kibbutz Be’eri, close to the Gaza border, earlier in the war.

The necessity of owning our observance and putting passion into it - opinion

An illustrative photograph of a man wearing tefillin

Expanded cardiovascular benefits shown when wearing tefillin - study


The tale of the stolen tefillin

The writer and Rabbi Dan Rosenstein's tefillin were stolen while they were in San Francisco together.

 ONE PERSON helping another put on tefillin, in Kiryat Shmona.

Holocaust museum accused of allegedly smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw

Multiple Polish Holocaust museums also decried Shem Olam’s reported acquisition.

Pair of tefilin with black straps with blue kippah on white wooden background. (illustrative)

How NY sanitation workers helped a Jew go dumpster diving for his tefillin

This wasn’t the first time the department helped someone find a lost pair of tefillin.

  A Jewish worshipper wears Tefillin as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City March 8, 2012. Tefillin, leather straps and boxes containing sacred parchments, are worn by Orthodox Jewish men during morning prayer

Tefillin stands set up at Magen David Adom stations throughout Israel

The initial stands were placed at the MDA stations in Kiryat Ono, Jerusalem, Afula, Tiberias, Rishon Lezion, Netanya, Acre, Ashdod, Beer-Sheva and other cities.

Inauguration ceremony of the tefillin stands at the national center of MDA in Kiryat Ono