I get emails like this on average twice a month:

If you have advice about what I should do with my ancient tefillin, that would be great. They were my great-grandfather’s and I would love to use them, but they are tiny, and the man I talked to at [Big Judaica Store] told me that it was likely the parchment would no longer be kosher and that there ( Read more... )

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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 ( Read more... )