Tefillin Club Meetings
Palm Beach Daily News
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Membership is open in the Tefillin Club for men and boys who have made their bar mitzvah.
The group meets at 10 a.m. Sundays at the Palm Beach Jewish Center, 205 Royal Palm Way. Members put on Tefillin and enjoy a hot breakfast and Jewish heritage and the Mitzvot.
“Tefillin is one of the most important Mitzvot (precepts) of the Torah. It has been observed and treasured for thousands of years,” according to Rabbi Zalman Levitin.
Tefillin is composed of two small leather boxes attached to leather straps. The boxes each contain four sections of the Torah inscribed on parchment.
“One of the boxes (the ‘hand Tefillin’) is placed upon the left arm so as to rest against the heart — the seat of the emotions, and the suspended leather strap is wound around the left hand, and around the middle finger of that hand. The other box (the ‘head Tefillin’) is placed upon the head, above the forehead, so as to rest upon the cerebrum,” explains the rabbi. For information, call Levitin at 659-3884.