no. 1630. JEWISH CHREMONIALS—ADLER AND OCASANOWICZ. 718 
compartments, in each of which one of the four extracts from the 
Pentateuch is put, and the strap is tied at such a distance as to fit the 
head of the wearer, forming a knot shaped in the form of the Hebrew 
= daleth (d). The tefilla for the hand or arm has no letter impressed 
on the outside and no divisions inside, and the four passages it con- 
tains are written continuously on one strip of parchment. One end of 
the strap is made into a small noose, with a knot resembling the 
Hebrew ~ yod (y or 1). The three letters thus exhibited on the out- 
side of the ¢efillin constitute the Hebrew name of God ssy Shaddai, 
rendered by the English versions: “Almighty.” ¢ The materials used 
in making the ¢efid/in must come from a clean animal, and the extracts 
from the Pentateuch are written in the same manner as the Torah 
Scroll. (See p. 706.) 
In “ laying the tefillin” (hanohath tefillin) that of the arm is put 
on first. The box is fastened on the naked left arm above the elbow, 
and the strap is wound seven times around below the elbow. ‘Then 
that of the head is put on so that the box comes to rest on the forehead 
below the hair and between the eyes, the knot being at the nape of 
the neck, while the ends of the strap pass over the shoulders and hang 
down on either side. Next, the end of the strap of the ¢efilla of the 
arm is wound thrice around the middle finger and around the hand. 
Kach of these performances is accompanied by appropriate benedic- 
tions and the recitation of passages from the Scriptures. In taking 
off the tefillin that of the head is removed first, then that of the arm. 
The straps are folded around the boxes (Plate LX XV, fig. 2), and the 
tefillin are reverently put into a bag, which is sometimes included in 
another, so that the sacred objects may be more carefully protected. 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
48. Inner Bac For Trrimium.—Made of silk and embroidered. 
Made at Chalcis (sland of EKuboea, Greece), in the seventeenth cen- 
tury, and found there after the Jews had departed for the battle of 
Athens in 1822. Plate LX XV, fig. 3, Cat. No. 154582, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. | 
49. Bac or Terinuin.—Made of velvet in Morocco. (Plate 
LXXVI, fig. 2, Cat. No. 154580, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
50. Puyuacrertes.—Gift of Mr. David Sulzberger. (Cat. No. 
130276, U.S.N.M.) | 
51. Puyntacreries.—Lent by Mr. S. S. Howland. (Cat. No. 
216159, U.S.N.M.) 
52. Puyntactertes.—Tunis, North Africa. (Cat. No. 217686, 
U.S.N.M.) 
4 Genesis xvii, 1. 
