Tefillin

Abstract Black leather box with a brown leather strap with ''shel yad (for the hand). Together with one for the hand it makes up the tefillin (phylacteries). These leather boxes are used by Jewish men from the age of 13 and bound with leather straps onto their left arm (unless they are left-handed, in which case they bind it onto their right arm) and on the crest of their foreheads during the morning prayers. The leather box contains parchments on which are written the four sections of the Torah in...

Abstract Black leather box with a brown leather strap with ''shel rosh'' (for the head). Together with one for the hand it makes up the tefillin (phylacteries). These leather boxes are used by Jewish men from the age of 13 and bound with leather straps onto their left arm (unless they are left-handed, in which case they bind it onto their right arm) and on the crest of their foreheads during the morning prayers. The leather box contains parchments on which are written the four sections of the Torah...