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Donning Phylacteries for Prayer - Picture - MSN Encarta (83 words) |
 | Wrapping phylacteries around his arm, a Hasidic youth in Brooklyn, New York, prepares for his morning prayers. |
| Phylacteries, called tefillin in Hebrew, consist of two fl leather boxes that are attached to leather ties; the boxes contain passages from Scripture written on parchment. |
| Traditional Jews, including Hasidim, don phylacteries for prayer from the time of bar mitzvah (age 13) on. |
| Tefillin [Phylacteries] (2476 words) |
| The head phylactery is imprinted twice with the Hebrew letter shin: once on the side which is to the left of the wearer, and once on the opposite side. |
| All statements as to the nature of phylacteries in pre-Mishnaic times were mere conjecture until the discovery some forty years ago of the remains of phylacteries at the Murabba'at caves, which were occupied by refugees at the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt (135 CE), and at the caves at Qumran. |
| Thus we see that while the physical elements of the phylacteries, i.e., the case, the parchment, the ties, etc., were already fixed by the 2nd century CE, the final uniformity of the text was not established until later, and even then, two traditions remained as to the ordering of the four passages. |
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