Every time we wear tefillin, we experience a new start and relive, in a small way, the going out from Egypt.

In Tefillin - The Inside Story Rabbi Emanuel gives us a new and profound understanding of this vital mitzvah, showing us how each time we put on tefillin we reconnect with the eternity of the Jewish people.

Beginning with his thirteenth birthday the Jewish male puts on tefillin almost every single day for the rest of his life. Nonetheless for most people the mitzvah is mysterious and intriguing.

Tefillin: The Inside Story offers the reader a fascinating and insightful look at the mitzvah of tefillin, showing us how the black leather boxes and straps are a physical reflection of great and eternal spiritual truths.

Questions answered in this book:
• What is the significance of tefillin?
• Why don't we wear them on Shabbos?
• Why don't women wear tefillin?
• Why do we wear tefillin on the weaker arm?
• What is meant when we talk of G-d's tefillin?
• How do those small black boxes and long black straps symbolize the Jews' connection to G-d?

Tefillin: The Inside Story is an important book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the daily ritual of tefillin and of our Jewish heritage -- whether he is putting tefillin on for the very first time or has a lifetime of the mitzvah already to his credit.

"The book's organic structure encompasses a vast array of detail, derived from massive sources of Torah learning, and welded... into an amazingly consistent unity. [The author] has...succeeded in rendering the most complex and subtle ideas into elemental clarity..." - From the approbation of Rabbi Nachman Bulman zt"l