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barbie, tefillin

Yay tefillin donations! Someone went to look at Barbie, and had a sniff round my site, and offered to donate his old tefillin to my women's tefillin gemach. Isn't that nice?

A gemach is a charity which lends things to people in need. Sometimes it's basic stuff like plates, sometimes it's wedding dresses, sometimes it's furniture, and sometimes it's tefillin. Men who can't afford tefillin can borrow some from a tefillin gemach for as long as they need them. But women can't, because gemachen don't exist in the liberal Jewish movements (so far as I know) and the liberal movements are the only places where they're interested in women laying tefillin. Bit of a bind, as it were. So I'm working on doing something about it. Slowly, as yet, but working on it. And lovely people who donate tefillin completely out of the blue are a vital component.

Thank you, tefillin donator!