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Are small tefillin better than large tefillin?

by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

  

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Few scribes today are capable of writing small scrolls properly. Often, the scrolls inside small Tefillin are well below the acceptable standard for Kosher tefillin.

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Mitzvot » Tefillin
Tefillin
Black leather boxes containing small scrolls with passages of the Bible written on them. Every day, aside for Sabbath and Jewish holidays, the adult Jewish male is required to wrap the Tefillin--by means of black leather straps--around the weaker arm and atop the forehead.
Kosher
Literally means "fit." Commonly used to describe foods which are permitted by Jewish dietary laws, but is also used to describe religious articles (such as a Torah scroll or Sukkah) which meet the requirements of Jewish law.