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Meanings of tefillin in inglês
Small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, worn by male observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.
português
tefilin espanhol
filacteria (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer.
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Examples for "phylacteries"
Examples for "phylacteries"
1
The smith laid aside his book and his phylacteries and grasped his hammer.
2
His devotions over, he hurriedly took the phylacteries from his head and hand.
3
Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
4
I don't want you to 'make broad your phylacteries,' you know.
5
The wearing of phylacteries indicates that they were regarded by the Jews as amulets.
Usage of tefillin in inglês
1
However it started, tefillin have evolved into an enormously intricate ritual.
2
I ask Yossi, one of my Orthodox advisers, to be my tefillin-wrapping tutor.
3
That woman had refused to discard tefillin that were found in a suitcase.
4
The tefillin is tight, creating six little lumps of forearm.
5
She told Haaretz newspaper: The gentleman I tended to first still had his tefillin on.
6
My brother Melvyn says they pulled tefillin and a prayer book out of that dirty little room.
7
When Pinchas put on his tefillin for morning prayer, François looked awkwardly aside, as one studiously ignores another person's nudity.
8
I had a passing familiarity with the Jewish prayer straps (they're usually called tefillin, but sometimes they're known as phylacteries).
9
And some claim that Jesus himself put on tefillin every day, though he did criticize the bulky versions worn by the Pharisees.
10
The Rabbi was seated there, "learning," with great Tefillin and Tallith on- afine ,simple ,benevolentsoul.
11
Tefillin have been around a very long time-archaeologistsfound a pair near the Dead Sea in Israel dating to right around the time of Christ.
12
However it started, tefillin have evolved into an enormously intricate ritual.
13
I ask Yossi, one of my Orthodox advisers, to be my tefillin-wrapping tutor.
14
That woman had refused to discard tefillin that were found in a suitcase.
15
The tefillin is tight, creating six little lumps of forearm.
16
She told Haaretz newspaper: The gentleman I tended to first still had his tefillin on.
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Translations for tefillin
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espanhol
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Tefillin through the time