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תפילין Wear Phylacteries
תפילין Wear Phylacteries

The Torah tells us "And you shall bind them as a sign on your arm, and they shall be as frontlets on your head between your eyes" דברים  (Deuteronomy 6:8). Tefillin are a pair of black leather boxes containing Hebrew parchment scrolls. A set includes two — one for the head and one for the arm, each of which is a separate Mitzvah. Each consists of three main components: the scrolls, the box and the strap.

The following paragraph is from Aish.com:
"Tefillin are sometimes referred to as phylacteries. This stems from the ancient Greek phylakterion, which means a safeguard. Apparently, the Greeks misunderstood the Tefillin to be some sort of amulet or charm. Actually, Tefillin serve not as a superstition, but as a bona fide connection to God."

The word mitzvah, מצוה, commandment, relates at its root to the word tzavsa, תצוה, or binding. Every mitzvah is an act of love that binds us to God. But Tefillin are the paradigmatic mitzvah, in that we literally bind ourselves to the will of God. Tefillin represents a total dedication to and union with the Almighty.

Tefillin have a tremendous power to connect spiritually. Remarkably, The Chinese Journal of Medicine claims that the contact points of Tefillin are exactly those points at which acupuncture needles are inserted in order "to increase spirituality and to purify thoughts."