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  • noun countable The Jewish phylactery, consisting of small boxes containing portions of the Torah worn most commonly during prayer by Jewish men and some Jewish women.
  • noun uncountable The Jewish concept of prayer

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Examples

  • Teshuva, tefilla, and tzedaka make an interesting group.

    The Unetane Tokef and Collective Responsibility - Danya Ruttenberg 2006

  • ** At the Kever Rashbi in the north, a special atzeres tefilla is scheduled for Thursday night as a result of the difficult situation in Eretz HaKodesh.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2009

  • Hundreds of Chabad students in Ashkelon on Tuesday morning held a tefilla rally outside the city's old college building insisting they too require fortification for protection against Kassam rocket attacks.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • Chazal tell us that nothing compares to the power and effectiveness of the tefilla of young children, and therefore we are appealing to these children in these desperate times of need.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • At 11: 0pm Wednesday night, a major tefilla was held at the Kosel on the Rav's behalf.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • Areshet S'Faseinu - each time after we blow the shofar during the repetition we said this tefilla.

    Life in Israel 2008

  • B'Rosh Hashana Yi'Kaseivun - this tefilla is powerful for me in the sense that it invokes the realization that the judgement we are facing is not just a simple you will live or you will die, but there are so many choices and options and different ways to how we can be judged. and what I considered my top point in davening - the tefilla that really got to me ...

    Life in Israel 2008

  • Not just that, but we then say a short tefilla, with a powerful tune, asking that Hashem actually listen to our tefillos, as He listens to the shofar, and accept them with mercy.

    Life in Israel 2008

  • This is especially powerful juxtaposed by the next tefilla "Ayn Kitzva" which is sung with a hippy and skippy tune pointing out the the awesomeness and infiniteness of God and demanding (?) that He act (in forgiving us?) for His own sake.

    Life in Israel 2008

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