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STUDENT WORKBOOK for TEFILLIN
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Student Workbookfor tefillin
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GettinG to knoW Your tefillin
What is the Hebrew name of the tefillin that is worn on the hand?
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What is the Hebrew name of the tefillin that is worn on the head?
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Label the ketzitzah, titurah and ma’avarta of the tefillin.
What is the black paint that tefillin are painted with made out of?
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How many parshiyos or paragraphs from the Torah are in tefillin?
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What is the reason that these particular parshiyos are in tefillin?
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How are the parshiyos arranged in the tefillin shel yad?
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From where do we derive this?
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How are the parshiyos arranged in the tefillin shel rosh?
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From where do we derive this?
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How many areas does each bayis shel tefillin have inside?
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Which side of the tefillin shel rosh has the four armed shin?
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Mark the three parts of the tefillin that have to be square:
What can we do to ensure that the bayis shel yad remains square and doesn’t get rounded by the shirt sleeve?
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What does the batim maker do, in order to ensure that the stitches remain square?
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What are the retzuos or straps made from?
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What color must the retzuos be painted?
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Which three parts of the tefillin spell out Hashem’s name of ש-ד-י?
Explain the difference in the position of the loop of the shel yad between the Ashkenazic custom and the Sephardic and Chassidic custom:
ש די
AshkenAz
sephArdic & chAssidic
AshkenAz
sephArdic & chAssidic
Explain the difference in the wrapping of the retzuos of the shel yad between the Ashkenazic custom and the Sephardic and Chassidic custom?
When must the knot of the shel yad touch the bayis of the tefillin?
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How do the Ashkenazim make sure the knot of the shel yad touches the bayis of the tefillin?
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the MakinG of tefillin
What problem arose with tefillin that were made from small animals called dakos?
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Why are gasos tefillin made from the skin of bulls?
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Which part of the skin is used to make tefillin and why?
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Draw the shape the leather is pressed into as the first step after tanning:
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What are inserted into the hide to give the compartments their square shape?
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How are the thick leather hides given their box-like shape?
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The concept of chock tochos means that…
The shins cannot be formed by pressing them out of the side of the bayis.
The tefillin have to made leshma, for the sake of the mitzvah.
The letters on the parchment cannot touch each other.
In order to be kosher the shin must be formed by using a method called chock yereichos. Explain this process:
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When filing down the tefillin to make them exactly square, what is the advantage of using a hand or leg operated machine?
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The concept of chock tochos means that…
parshiyos are wrapped with calf’s hair.
parshiyos covered with a piece of parchment.
parshiyos are wrapped again with calf’s hair.
parshiyos are rolled from end to beginning.
What is used to sew the boxes shut?
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PuttinG on Your tefillin
What should a person have in mind before he puts on his tefillin?
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From where do we learn that the shel yad should be put on before the shel rosh?
The pasuk says to put on the shel yad first.
The pasuk mentions the shel yad and then the shel rosh.
The rabbis decreed that the shel yad should be first.
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What is the rule of ein maavirim al hamitzvos?
You should not be sad when do you mitzvos.
You should not pass over a mitzvah to do another one.
You should not delay doing a mitzvah.
How does the rule of ein maavirim al hamitzvos apply to tefillin?
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When reaching into the tefillin bag, which should be taken out first?
Shel Rosh.
Shel Yad.
From the fact that the pasuk of ukshartam, and you shall tie, is next to the pasuk of uchsavtam, and you should write, we learn that…
You should tie your tefillin after they are written.
You should tie your tefillin with the hand that writing is usually performed with.
You should tie your tefillin with the hand that writing is not usually performed with.
What should one do if he made a blessing and later found that his shirt was stuck underneath the box?
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Put in order the steps of putting on tefillin shel yad.
Make a bracha on the shel yad.
Bind the tefillin around the upper arm.
Place the tefillin shel yad in the correct place.
Wrap the excess around the palm.
Wrap the strap around the lower arm seven times.
Ashkenazim ..................... when putting on the tefillin shel yad.
Sephardim ..................... when putting on the tefillin shel yad.?
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When putting on the tefillin shel rosh, what two things do Sephardim do differently than Ashkenazim?
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Between putting on the shel yad and the shel rosh, what is it very important to be careful not do?
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Explain why Ashkenazim say “Baruch shem kevod malchuso le’olam va’ed” after putting on their tefillin shel rosh?
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What do the wrappings around the palm and middle finger symbolize?
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What is the reason that the tefillin shel yad should preferably be worn covered?
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PoSition of the tefillin
The tefillin shel yad should rest on the right place on the arm as wearing them in the wrong position is considered as if...
They are resting in the tefillin bag and no mitzvah is fulfilled.
They are only a little off and the mitzvah is fulfilled bedieved.
It is not the correct thing to do, but you have performed the mitzvah in the best possible way.
Mark where the tefillin shel yad must rest according to the Shulchan Aruch and Rema.
Mark where the tefillin shel must rest according to the Vilna Gaon.
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Hairline
In regard to placement of the shel yad, whose opinion is preferable to follow?
If one’s tefillin shel yad are too large to fit in the lower portion of the arm alone, how should they be positioned?
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Why should the bayis of the shel yad tilt slightly towards the body?
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Mark the proper place for the tefillin shel rosh.
shulchan Aruch & rema Vilna Gaon
Tefillin shel rosh that rest even a small amount below the hairline is considered as if...
They are resting in the tefillin bag and no mitzvah is fulfilled.
They are only a little off and the mitzvah is fulfilled bedieved.
You have performed the mitzvah in the best possible way.
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Where should someone whose hairline has receded place his tefillin shel rosh?
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Mark the proper place for the knot of the tefillin shel rosh.
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inSiGhtS into the PoSition of tefillin
What does the position of the tefillin shel yad on the bicep declare?
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What does the position of the tefillin shel rosh on the front of the head show?
The decision making process is guided by what Hashem wants.
That a person should think about the words written in the tefillin while he wears them.
That is where the hair begins to grow and just like the hair never stops growing, so too a Jew should never stop growing in his spirituality.
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How does the shin on the tefillin shel rosh compare to roots of a plant?
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Where does the tefillin shel yad, which represents action, meet the tefillin shel rosh, which represents thought?
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What does the daled shape of the knot of the tefillin shel rosh symbolize?
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MeaninG behind tefillin
What do we learn from the fact that the word מצוה is from the word ?which means to connect צוותא
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If done correctly, what can the binding of the tefillin to our arm and head achieve?…
An opportunity to do a mitzvah correctly.
A unique closeness to Hashem.
A feeling of being bound in mitzvos.
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In order to have the proper kavanah and be touched by the mitzvah, the tefillin should be…
Put on as quickly as possible to catch up to the minyan.
Put on slowly and deliberately in order to contemplate what you are doing.
Put on in a medium speed in order not to stand out in the crowd.
name three behaviors that a person must refrain from while wearing tefillin.
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When putting on tefillin, what should a person concentrate on in each of the four paragraphs that are contained in them?
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ראל מע יש ש
מע והיה אם ש
כור ש לי כל ב קד
י יביאך והיה כ
What concept did people not understand that caused them to come up with idol worship?
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How can we take the message of the tefillin and make it affect us for rest of the day?
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When a person relinquishes his power of control to Hashem and makes Him in charge…
There is no end of what he can achieve with Hashem’s help.
He is showing he is weak and cannot accomplish anything on his own.
He has limited his choices to the will of Hashem.
What is one reason for the halachah that no chatzitza may exist between the tefillin and a person’s skin?
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How can we make the values of the tefillin part of our thought process?
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CarinG for tefillin
What are two things you should be careful to do, in order not to round the corners of your tefillin?
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What are two things you should be careful to do, in order to keep the retzuos in proper condition?
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What damage can occur to tefillin left in a hot car?
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When traveling on a plane, where should your tefillin be placed and why?
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What can you do to ensure that your tefillin shel rosh does not warp?
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