tefillin gemach
I keep sets of tefillin for loaning to women. Women, because men have an easy time of it if they want to borrow tefillin. A woman who wants to borrow tefillin - because she wants to try the practice before committing a few hundred dollars to tefillin, or because she hasn’t got that sort of cash - she has a hard time. It is for these women that I started collecting spare sets of tefillin.
The tefillin I have - thanks especially to Rabbi Ben Kramer, hi Ben! and also to Rabbis Abby and Juan, hey guys! - all need checking before I can send them to people. The more decrepit sets need actual repair, also.
I prefer to get this done by men, for many and varied reasons, and this doesn’t always happen as fast as I’d like.* I’ve just started to make some progress on the most recent lot, and I’ll make more progress before very long, but at the moment, I’m in a bit of a checking-backlog.
But hopefully, before too many more weeks have passed, I’ll have some more nice kosher tefillin to loan to more people.
* Because. The men I know who are willing to work with me fall into two categories - the grasping sort, who insist that These Tefillin Cannot Be Repaired Let Me Sell You A New Set, and the accommodating sort, who will sort them out eventually but have other things on their plates and take their sweet time.
Mirrored from hasoferet.com.