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How to Make Tefillin

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Choicest Cow-Hide

The choicest cow-hide is used. They use only from the cheeks and the neck where it is the thickest. Thus only one pair of Tefillin is produced for each head of cattle. After undergoing a softening process the leather is cut to the size needed and left to dry slowly in the open air for at least three months.
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