It sounds like a Jewish improv setup: A Chabad guy asks Larry David to lay tefillin. But this was real life, and the Lubavitcher, a 21-year-old self-starter named Yossi Farro, was asking in front ...

It’s not unusual to see Chabadniks wrapping tefillin around men’s arms, and reciting and explaining the blessings, but it’s less familiar when the setting is prison and the pupils are convicts.

Providers offer their tefillin to those making the request within a radius of 20 miles. The app’s creator, a follower of the Chabad Hasidic movement named Shimon — he said he did not want to ...

Thousands of Israelis across the country wrapped tefillin on Wednesday in memory of the Bibas family at orange stands set up by Chabad emissaries. On Wednesday morning, Rabbi Nati Wagner and Rabbi ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One of the most sacred objects in Judaism is made of skin from a bull's neck. It's called tefillin, and each black box contains scrolls that must be written by hand.

This is one of the reminders of the tefillin. Reb Yisroel Salanter, zt”l, zy”a, famously said that the greatest distance in the world between one point and another is the distance between the ...

But beyond the grief, a painful realization struck: Kfir and Ariel will never have the chance to put on tefillin, a sacred milestone for Jewish boys as they reach bar mitzvah age. In response ...

In 1967 as The Six-Day War loomed, the Rebbe launched tefillin campaigns encouraging Jewish men of all backgrounds to fulfill the mitzvah. Though some initially couldn’t recognize the genius ...

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