Ideas for a "hanachat tfillin" presentation
- He's already seen the "putting the klaf in the bayit" when he bought his tfillin. Anyone know of other ideas of things to do for that age?
- Thanks.
How about the Bais of Uleovdo?
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maybe a simple presentation: the correct way putting on tefilin - where exactly on the arm and head, how and when to recite the bracha/s, the cavana and meaning of tfilin opposite one's heart and mind as explained in SA OC 25:5
ReplyDeleteTo piggy back on R Moshe: you can point out to then all of the "cool" symbolisms: the 3 headed vs. 4 headed Shin - Avos and Imahos. The twelve stiches - Shevatim. Saaros - kapara on chet ho'eigel. Another interesting fact which many people don't know: the tfillin don't need to be a square. Rather, they need to be square at any given point. Or the fact that me'ikkar hadin the battim don't need to be black.
DeleteI find that these "unknowns" are very intriguing to folks.
Thanks for the ideas.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how much time you have or if you have a budget but a recent activity that worked very well was buying the pieces of pshutim mehudarim tefillin and having the kids assemble and glue them together.
ReplyDeletecost was about $7 per set of batim plus glue and spray paint.
it keeps them busy for about 40 minutes
works well with teenage boys