The third and final tefillin story was shared by my 99 year old father. His story took place in Hamburg, Germany in September of 1938. The Nazis are in power. Stores have signs indicating that ...

He met an old friend from the States who had made arrangements to borrow another person’s tefillin in Israel. “It didn’t make sense to me that in a Jewish country, borrowing a tefillin ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One of the most sacred objects in Judaism is made of skin from a bull's neck. It's called tefillin, and each black box contains scrolls that must be written by hand.