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[arib]

Third photo down, the kid on the right, wearing the blue plaid shirt is my brother Dani.

(Taken at the Western Wall a few days ago...)

He's in one or two others, too.

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[rosefox]

I don't generally expect pictures of places I've never been to make me cry. Every time I see anything of Jerusalem, though.... I really must go, someday.

Your brother looks a lot like you.

What are they wearing on their heads in the first two pictures?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

What are they wearing on their heads in the first two pictures?

Those are tefillin, also sometimes called phylacteries. The link explains them more clearly than I could.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Nomi. I was about to hunt up the same website. :-)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

(Tangent warning: tangent coming up ahead)

Interestingly, I went and read some of the site- and the tfillin article is non-gender specific/egalitarian if one is reading it without cultural assumptions, while the one on tallit is not. I rather wonder about who's writing these, considering that even in the egalitarian commuity tfillin seem to be culturally regarded as much more a male thing than tallit.

[rosefox]

Ah, excellent. Thank you.