Small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, worn by male observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.
(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 "phylactery "
Examples for "phylactery "
1 It is inscribed on a phylactery , in the following manner:
2 He was expected to wear a phylactery on his forehead inscribed "I AM A BIOLOGIST."
3 I do not know how Kirstie became convinced that, whoever or whatever the enemy might be, Mr. Johnstone was the phylactery .
4 I unbound my frontlet, taking off the black phylactery , whose memorable sentence, written in white letters, had been visible to myself alone.
5 Philemo once asked Rabbi (the Holy), "If a man has two heads, on which is he to put the phylactery ? "
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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