Tefillin

Leather boxes containing parchment with Torah verses TefillinA set of tefillin includes the arm-tefillah (left) and the head-tefillahHalakhic texts relating to this articleTorah:Exodus 13:9Exodus 13:16Deuteronomy 6:8Deuteronomy 11:18Mishnah:Menachot 3:7Babylonian Talmud:Zevachim 37bSanhedrin 4bMenachot 34bKiddushin 36aMishneh Torah:Tefillin, Mezuzah, veSefer Torah ch 5-6Shulchan Aruch:Orach Chayim 25-48[link removed] Tefillin (Hebrew: תְּפִלִּין or תְּפִילִּין; Ashkenazi and Modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation: [tfiˈlin]), or phylacteries, are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. Tefillin are traditionally worn by male adult Jews during Shacharit on weekdays. In Orthodox and traditional Conservative Jewish (including Masorti) communities, they are worn solely by men; some Reform and Conservative communities allow Jewish adults to don tefillin regardless of gender. In Jewish law (Halakha), women are exempt from most time-dependent positive commandments (including the wearing of tefillin). Unlike other time-dependent positive commandments, most halakhic authorities rule that f