Tefillin
(Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)
Tefillin shel yad ("arm-tefillin")
.JPG "Tefillin #1")
Tefillin shel yad consists of a small black leather box ("bayit") of cubic form on a flat basis through which the leather straps - retsuot that serve for fixing of tefillin on the arm are stretched. The box and straps as well as the parchment with the fragment of the text of Jewish prayer that is enclosed in a single compartment within a bayit, are made of the skin of the kosher animal.
- Museum / institution
- Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- КП 62768 - Т-4406
- unknown
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Transferred from synagogue by Shalom Gottlieb - the Chief Rabbi of the city of Mykolaiv and Mykolaiv region for the new exhibition of regional museum.
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- manuscript, handicraft, needlework
- Technique, comment
- Inside the box there are four passages from the Torah, namely the prayer "Shema Yisrael" in Hebrew written on parchment made of kosher animal skin with indelible black ink.
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- daily religious use
- Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
- Jewish men wear tefillin with the special blessing during morning prayer every day except sabbath and holidays. Especially pious Hasidim are in tefillin all day long until they are studying Torah. At first tefillin shel yad is worn on the left arm and then tefillin shel rosh is placed on the head. Wearing of tefillin on the left arm points to the complete subordination of all thoughts and desires of the heart to the will of Almighty.
- Era
- the beginning of XX - middle of XX
- Materials
- wood, thread, leather
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 5.20, height: 6.50, length: 8.00
- Preservation condition
- bad
- Description of the preservation condition
- Parchment dried out, total splotches, scrapes, the box for bayit storage is missing.
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- on display
- Since when displayed (year and month, the name of the exhibition or exposure)
- з 2012 року