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A seatmate’s question on a long-haul flight leads to a firsthand explanation of tefillin: what’s inside the boxes, why they go on the arm and head, and why this ancient practice still happens at 35,000 feet.
Magazine·Jun 28, 2026
Hostage survivor Eliya Cohen returned with his partner to the Negev shelter from which they were abducted on October 7 and put on tefillin there .”From the exact spot where I was taken, I say again the same words I said just before the kidnapping,” he wrote.
Sinai Staff·Apr 20, 2025
