tefillin
noun
te·fil·lin
tē-ˈfi-lən 
also -ləm
plural in form but sometimes singular in construction
: the phylacteries worn by Jews
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Chabad had set up a truck for men to come and put on tefillin.
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Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 5 July 2024
Avraham Shaya Eisenman, 32, wearing tefillin, a small leather box containing religious texts.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
In one scene, he’s shown wrapping the leather straps of tefillin — small prayer boxes — around his arms.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
People could sometimes see marks from my tefillin.
—Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2020
The groom’s future brother-in-law got his first tefillin from the synagogue’s rabbis.
—Masada Siegel, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
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Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 5 July 2024
Avraham Shaya Eisenman, 32, wearing tefillin, a small leather box containing religious texts.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
In one scene, he’s shown wrapping the leather straps of tefillin — small prayer boxes — around his arms.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
People could sometimes see marks from my tefillin.
—Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2020
The groom’s future brother-in-law got his first tefillin from the synagogue’s rabbis.
—Masada Siegel, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
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“Tefillin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tefillin. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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