The ancient tefillin were examined using scientific methods. According to Jewish law, the tefillin boxes (Batim) should be colored black (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, 32:40). However, a team of ...

The boxes are based on a line from the biblical Shema prayer, which instructs Jews to “bind” the prayer on their arms and place it between their eyes. Archaeologists have discovered tefillin ...

There is also something about tefillin, which involve wrapping leather straps around the arm and head to attach the boxes, that “is so male connected that it’s hard to work through,” said ...

A moment later she placed a second tefillin box at the front of her head, secured by pre-tied straps. Finally, she recited a prayer acknowledging God’s presence and the commandment to lay tefillin.

Tefillin from about 2,000 years ago in the laboratories of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The Jewish Press web article “New Study Suggests Some Tefillin Boxes Were Not Colored Black 2,000 ...

The point on the upper arm where the box rests corresponds approximately to Heart 1 (HT1), an important meridian point known for its influence on emotional regulation and spiritual connection.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) A religious Jew wearing a series of black boxes and leather straps called tefillin or phylacteries inadvertently set off a bomb scare on a US Airways flight to Kentucky.

Tefillin, two small black boxes containing parchment with verses from the Hebrew Bible that are wound around the head and the arm with black leather straps, ...

After Twitter storm, Met museum changes tefillin label from amulet to phylactery But archive’s updated term for the leather boxes and straps still doesn’t mention its use in Jewish prayer ...

The boxes contain four hand-written texts from the Bible, in which believers are commanded to wear certain words on the hand and between the eyes. The texts are Exodus 13:1-10, 13:11-16 ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is fixing a mistake that went unnoticed for years — a label that described an ancient Jewish Tefillin as an an Egyptian amulet. The box, dating from 500 to 1000… ...

Two Jewish men in Brooklyn wearing tefillin, small leather boxes attached to leather straps, during a prayer for victims of the Mumbai attacks in 2008.