Tefillin
(Kirovograd Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)
Tefillin shel yad ("arm-tefillin")
Tefillin consists of a little black wooden box of cubic form ("bayit") covered with the leather of kosher animal on a wooden base, through which two long straps - retsuot that are 342 cm in length are stretched and serve for fixing of tefillin on the arm.
- Museum / institution
- Kirovograd Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- КІ - 1055
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Transferred to the museum as a part of the collection of O. Ilyin for permanent storage. 1994.
- 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 resistant black ink.
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- for 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 XIX - end of XIX
- Materials
- wood, parchment, leather
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 3.00, height: 3.00, length: 3.00
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- in storage