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Gift of Harold and Mickey Smithexpand_more 2001.177.1.1
These intricately filigreed silver boxes were made to cover leather Tefillin boxes containing passages from the Torah. Deuteronomy 6:8 instructs, "And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." Traditional Jewish men attach the Tefillin to the head and arm with leather straps during morning prayers.
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