A young boy wearring his phylacteries (Tefillin), for the …

Tefillin, also called phylacteries, are a pair of black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with biblical verses. Weaaring Teffilin is one of the major commandment a Jewish boy reaching his Bar-Mitzva, at the age of 13, needs to obey "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. " (Deuteronomy 6:8)

Young religious Jewish boy puts on phylacteries - teffilin - for the first time at the Lubavitch synagogue in Brooklyn, New York Stock Photo - Alamy

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