Ashkenazi Tefillin Gassot Miksheh A Handmade

These Tefillin Gassot Miksheh are literally the best you can get in the world of Tefillin, as far as Kashruth and quality are concerned. With boxes and straps made by hand,each box fashioned from one strip of leather and Parshiot written in the most stringent manner (Mehudar), these Tefillin Gassot Miksheh are the best you can get. The Tefillin are made in Israel by Pe'er HaSTaM and come with an authorization certificate verifying their Kashruth and having been checked by a computer. The Tefillin are also checked by an expert. Ktav Beit Yossef or Ari? The most common script is called beit yosef since it is the form prescribed by Rabbi Yosef Caro in the Shulchan Aruch - the primary work of Jewish law. However, the great kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi promoted a script that differs slightly from beit yosef script in nine letters of the alphabet. This script is called ktav ari - ari being the Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Yitzchak Luria. Most Ashkenazi, non-hassidic Jews, as well as most Sephardi Jews, use the beit yosef script, while most hassidic and kabalistically-oriented Jewish communities use the ktav ari script. Ashkenazi Beit Yossef - generally used by those following Ashkenazi tradition, from Germany, England, Russia, Lithuanian Ashkenazi Ari Zal - generally used by those following Chassidic Sefard tradition, from Poland, Galicia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia Clockwise or CounterClockwise Wrapping Style: Clockwise wrapping style usually goes with Ktav Ari CounterClockwise wrapping style usually goes with Ktav Beit Yossef. Important to know: If you are right-handed you wear the Tefillin on the left arm whereas if you are left-handed you wear the Tefillin on the right arm.