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PRONUNCIATION OF TEPHILLIN

tephillin  [təˈfilin] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEPHILLIN

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Tephillin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TEPHILLIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Tefillin

Tefillin also called phylacteries are a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers. Although "tefillin" is technically the plural form, it is loosely used as a singular as well. The hand-tefillin, or shel yad, is placed on the upper arm, and the strap wrapped around the arm, hand and fingers; while the head-tefillin, or shel rosh, is placed above the forehead. The Torah commands that they should be worn to serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. The scriptural texts for tefillin are obscure in literal meaning. For example, the verse in Deut. 11:18 does not designate what specifically to "bind upon your arm," and the definition of totafot is not obvious. It is the Talmud, the authoritative oral tradition for Rabbinic Judaism, which explains what are to be bound to the body and the form of tefillin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TEPHILLIN


tefillin
təˈfilin

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TEPHILLIN

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tepee
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tephigram
tephillah
tephra
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Tepic
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WORDS THAT END LIKE TEPHILLIN

amoxicillin
amoxycillin
ampicillin
cloxacillin
fibrillin
flagellin
fluellin
gibberellin
Medellin
methicillin
monellin
oxacillin
penicillin
phallin
podophyllin
Scullin
Tallin
tellin
vanillin
vitellin

Synonyms and antonyms of tephillin in the English dictionary of synonyms

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TEPHILLIN»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEPHILLIN»

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Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, Royal ...
8), Jews wear at times of prayer Tephillin (P5511, phylacteries), or cases including the followingpassages—Ex. xiii. 2—16; Deut. vi. 4-9, xi. 13-21. These are bound with intricate interlacing of the bands on the left arm and on the forehead ...
Joseph Jacobs, 2012
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Modern Judaism: Or, A Brief Account of the Opinions, ...
The Tephillin for the arm are put on first, and afterwards the Tephillin for the head : to reverse this order would be inconsistent with the comparative sanctity they are supposed respectively to possess. The straps, when broken, are not to be tied ...
John Allen, 1816
3
Ashkenazim and Sephardim: Their Relations, Differences, and ...
Although R. Solomon ibn Adreth decided not to put on tephillin on the Half- Festiye days, it seems that owing to the influence of R. Asher the Sephardim adopted the Ashkenazi custom. 'Nowadays', says R. Joseph Caro, 'it is general usage ...
Hirsch Jakob Zimmels, 1993
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The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
The rabbis taught: It is allowed to write Tephillin on the skins of (ritually) clean animals and creatures, also upon the skins of such as died a natural death and were not slaughtered, and it is an ordinance (instituted) by Moses at Sinai, that the ...
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Babylonian Talmud Book 1:
So Rabh cursed him and said: "May theone who wishesto makeme suffer, notbe able torearhis children."Soitwas. The rabbis taught: It is allowed to write Tephillin onthe skins of (ritually) clean animals and creatures, also upon the skins of such  ...
Michael L. Rodkinson, 2014
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Targum Onkelos to Exodus: An English Translation of the Text ...
The former maintains that this verse refers to tephillin and the latter that it concerns the paschal sacrifice. See b. Men. 36b and Mek-SY 41:16. Adler and Berliner are not correct. As we have stressed repeatedly, Onkelos does not deviate to ...
Israel Drazin, 1990
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In the Shadow of the Pulpit
We were more than once told that it was unjust to require the purchase of tephillin . We found Bar Mitzvah photo albums very educational. Pictures of Israeli Bar Mitzvah boys, most of the times show the celebrant with the tephillin on his arm and ...
Ann Klein, Joel Klein, 2001
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The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of ...
tephillin,. or phylacteries, a word derived from the Greek word meaning an amulet or safeguard. Tephillin. aretwo small leather boxes that contain parchment strips inscribedinHebrew with passages fromtheOld Testament. Theseboxes are ...
Stanley Coren, 2012
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Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament
The prohibition on wearing tephillin was probably originally related to the need for re-tying them, but this led some to believe that tying tephillin on the Sabbath was forbidden.27 Meir added28 “a perfume-filled charm” (kokhelet, תלכוכ) probably ...
David Instone-Brewer, 2004
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Civil Religion in Israel: Traditional Judaism and Political ...
The program opened with a Jew putting on a tallit and tephillin while the announcer declared: "In the morning a Jew arises from his sleep to reunite himself with his nation, reunite himself with his creator." After the blessings recited while ...
Charles S. Liebman, Eliʻezer Don-Yiḥya, 1983

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