Halachot | Construction | Symbolism | Script Putting on the tefillin | Caring for Tefillin.

Laying tefillin is mentioned in four verses from the Torah: Here O Israel; And if you hearken; Sanctify; and When He brings you..

These four verses are written in a special script, with a feather dipped in ink, on parchment processed from the skin of ritually-clean animals. This law has been handed down from generation to generation, from Moses our Teacher up to this present day.

A small scroll containing these four Biblical passages is rolled and inserted into the "bayit" of the hand-tefillin.

In the head-tefillin, the verses are written on four separate slips of parchments and deposited into four perpendicular "houses" - each slip in its own "house."

The parchments are tied with the hair of a calf. When the bayit is closed, it is sewn with a tendon. The bayit of the tefillin, as well as the straps, are also made from the skin of ritually-clean animals.

Regarding the process of producing tefillin, see our web-page entitled, "Tour of the Factory." Here you will learn about the manufacture of the tefillin, from the processing of the leather up to the finished product. Click Here for our Tour of the Factory.