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- Title
Nobody Wears Tefillin on the Weekend: On one of the first crisp fall mornings of seventh grade, as I walked into prayer at my Jewish Day School, I noticed strange leather boxes hanging off my friend's arm.
- Authors
Gerwin, Adina
- Abstract
On one of the first crisp fall mornings of seventh grade, as I walked into prayer at my Jewish Day School, I noticed strange leather boxes hanging off my friend's arm. It discourages girls from taking on mitzvot like wearing tefillin because it makes them a masculine thing; by requiring only boys to wear tefillin, the school assigns a gender to these mitzvot.
- Subjects
JEWISH day schools; PRAYERS; LEATHER; PRAYER; JUDAISM; TALMUD
- Publication
KidSpirit Magazine, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1941-5222
- Publication type
Article