His phylacteries were no broader than those of another man; nay, perhaps he had no phylacteries at all, nor even a broad-bordered garment.
As he went out with his prayer-scarf and phylacteries under his arm, the unsuccessful "death" rang in his ears and troubled him.
He began to wear the phylacteriesand the prayer-scarf," etc.
And the little Ezrielk had more than once tried to make a piece of parchment out of a scrap of skin; and what Jewish boy cannot prepare the veins that are used to sew the phylacteries and the scrolls of the Law?
One morning I put on my phylacteries and tallith in order to perform the prescribed prayers, but I could not utter a single sentence out of the prayer book before me.
I am thinking of the orthodox Jews I used to know, who used to bind their phylacteries on their arms and foreheads every morning.
On the dead face it seems a mockery, like the Talith andphylacteries that have not been removed.
I bind my phylacteries on my arm and forehead every morning,' he said simply.
The poor people are quite fascinated by the idea of rich Jews like us keeping a strictly kosher table, but the image of a Member of Parliament with phylacteries on his forehead will simply intoxicate them.
My scanty luggage included a pair of phylacteries and a plump little prayer-book, with the Book of Psalms at the end.
When I had finished my devotions and had put my phylacteries into their little bag I sat down to breakfast.
Arnot gives an account of some Scottish talismans not unlike the phylacteries of the Jews, which were for use on the door-posts.
The Jewish phylacteries must therefore be considered talismans and not amulets.
It was customary to tie certain kinds of phylacteries into a knot.
The wearing of phylacteries indicates that they were regarded by the Jews as amulets.
More elaborate phylacteries consisted of tiny leathern boxes, cubical in form, and containing four sections of the Mosaic Law, written on parchment and folded in the skin of a clean beast.
Indeed, the Rabbis assert that the single precept of the phylacteries is equal in value to all the commandments.
Some authorities have maintained that phylacteries were not strictly amulets, but it is certain that they were held in superstitious regard.
Our Lord's reference to the Pharisees' custom of making broad their phylacteries had reference to the enlarging of the containing box, particularly the frontlet.
The common people wore phylacteries only at prayer time; but the Pharisees were said to display them throughout the day.
According to Rabbi Yehudah, he that does not put on phylacteries is an ignorant one.
He wore thephylacteries all day, that he might be reminded of his religious duties.
He who neglects to wearphylacteries transgresseth eight commandments.
This is referred to in the morning service for Yom Kippur, where it is said He showed "the knot of the phylacteries to the meek one" (i.
It was plain that though Monthault wore the enlarged phylacteries and sanctified demeanour of the sect he had lately adopted, he was more a hypocrite than an enthusiast.
He would grind the phylacteriesunder his heel--thus.
There was not wanting some one to play Sancho Panza, for the German Jew, while binding his arm piously with phylacteries in the publicity of the swarming deck, loved to pose as a man of common sense, free from superstition.
I learnt in the Ghetto that if I didn't twine the holy phylacteries round my arm, serpents would be found coiled round the arm of my corpse.
Doubtless he took his Judaism in some vague Platonic way; it was impossible to imagine him the literal bond-slave of that minute ritual, winding phylacteriesround his left arm or shaking himself in a praying-shawl.
XII The train for Switzerland started so early that Brum had no time to say his morning prayers; so, the carriage being to themselves, he donned his phylacteries and his praying-shawl with the blue stripes.
But they do all their works to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and the tassels of their garments long.
In more ancient times the phylacteries were worn by pious men and women all day and not merely during the time of prayer, and seem to have served both as a religious symbol and an amulet.
As both phylacteries and tallith came into use at the divine service in connection with the recital of the Shema and the chapter on the zizith, the symbols assumed a higher meaning.
Symbols of priestly consecration should adorn forehead and arm in the form of the phylacteries (tefillin), and should be placed at the entrance of every house in the so-called mezuzzah.
These small amulets are also to be found inclosed in thephylacteries (Fig.
I bind my phylacteries on my arm and forehead every morning," he said, simply.
Moses had folded his phylacteries with pious primness and put them away in a little bag, and he was hastily swallowing a cup of coffee.
I fancy I should be a good deal froomer if my phylacteries were like that.
I am very glad to have such phylacterieson my arm, as you put it," he responded.
The poor people are quite fascinated by the idea of rich Jews like us keeping a strictly kosher table; but the image of a Member of Parliament with phylacteries on his forehead will simply intoxicate them.
The majority bore with them nothing but their phylacteries and praying shawls, and a good-natured contempt for Christians and Christianity.
It was early morning and Moses in his big phylacteries was droning his orisons.
Did they imagine he worephylacteries or earlocks, or what?
We could see the books and periodicals, phylacteries and newspapers, holy fringe-garments and sheets of Jewish music in the windows from the other side of the street.
The Rabbis say, that when persecution forbade the wearing of the phylacteries with safety, a red thread might be substituted for this token of the covenant with the Lord.
Happy are they who verify their Amulets, and make their Phylacteries speak in their Lives and Actions.
The smith laid aside his book and his phylacteries and grasped his hammer.
He swung the phylacteries high over the Rabbis and teachers so that they bent their heads and fled through the curtained entrances.
His devotions over, he hurriedly took the phylacteries from his head and hand.
Ephraim proceeded to wind the phylacteries round his arm, and commenced to say his prayers softly.
Simeon says, “the straps of phylacteries do not render the hands unclean.
Straps of phylacteries with the phylacteries, render the hands unclean.
And when that Father and Mother shine above Him, all (these crowns) are called the phylacteries of the Head, and that Son taketh all things, and becometh the heir of all.
