The Tefillin Gift Shop

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Maqom's Tefillin "Gift Shop" Is Now Open

Thanks to the incredible generosity of the Jewish Community Center of Houston and several rabbis who sent in tefillin they had at their synagogues, Maqom's tefillin "gift shop" is now open. As a result of Maqom's on-line study, it was resolved that people should be able to take a "test drive" of this mitzvah without paying what, at first glance, seems an exorbitant cost of a new set of tefillin. Now, we can just give them to you.

One thing should be made quite clear: these tefillin are old and I have not checked them for kashrut…on purpose. That they have been saved all these years and are now as if awakened from the dead gives them-and you-a tremendous spiritual gift beyond the issue of kashrut. The broken tablets were kept in the ark with the whole ones. We don't throw out people when they get old, scratched or worn down. Let these tefillin remind you that no matter what brokenness you have experienced in your life, you have great worth.

If you have some tefillin that are not being used, please consider making them part of this collection so that they can fulfill the mitzvah for which they were made.

We now have available the texts inside the tefillin without their housings. If you would like these to use them as teaching aids or to put them into alternative technologies as tefillin, please email us with your snail mail address.

Tefillin Associates

How To Put On Tefillin

This video was produced at the Western Wall in 2010. Note that the visitor is left-handed and, therefore, has the tefillin placed on his right hand, which is his weaker hand.

If you are right handed, wrap the tefillin on the left hand.

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