"These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates." -- Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Appearing one chapter following the 10 Commandments, verse 4 of chapter 6 says "Hear, O Israel: The Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."  And then is given the instruction to tie these commandments as symbols on your hands, bind them on your foreheads, and write them on the door frames of your houses and gates.  While some understood these instructions to be figurative, and took it as emphasis to learn and teach these laws, others took it literally.  To this day some wear what are called teffilin to hold certain writings.  Inside these boxes attached to their foreheads and arms are contained four sets of texts (Exodus 13:1-10, 11-16; Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 11:13-21).   Here is a link for further explanation:


http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tefillin.html

Enjoy reading about teffilin.  Even though as Christians, we don't wear them, do not miss the point in the value and importance of learning and teaching the contents of Scripture.  We yet have much to learn.

Readings:  Deuteronomy 5:1-6:25; Luke 7:11-35; Psalm 68:19-35; Proverbs 11:29-31