Tfillin and Marriage Symbols

[debka_notion]

Just noticed this morning that not only do we recite psukim (verses) about being bethrothed to G-d while wrapping tfillin straps around our fingers, we then go on to wrap the strap around the ring where people contemporarily wear wedding rings. I wonder if there was some influence, although I very much doubt it. But it was a striking sort of coincidence.

I wonder if that affects how married Jews feel about their rings and/or about their tfillin. (Input, anyone?)

Comments

[tovah623.livejournal.com]

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

But, tovah623, you are also fully left-handed; you could wear a wedding ring and still put on t'filin.

Also, for debka_notion, in the wedding ceremony the ring is placed on the bride's index finger. And, not every married person wears a ring.

Huzzah!

The Vortex

[tovah623.livejournal.com]

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

...though the association with the pasuk is definitely strong

I have also seen it on some wedding invitations/ketubot.

Huzzah!

The Vortex

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I doubt that they did- as far as I know, it's a fairly new trend (men wearing wedding rings).

I take my watch off also, although I know it isn't required (although originally I learned that it was)- I guess it still feels preferable.

And many women wear their engagement rings (presuming that they have one, unlike my mother) on their right ring finger once their married, so I suppose some of the association might still be there. I don't know.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I take my watch off also, although I know it isn't required (although originally I learned that it was)- I guess it still feels preferable.

It isn't? I learned that it was, too.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I learned this summer that it isn't necessary to fulfill the technical mitzvah- for that you need three loops around the arm for long enough to walk I think 3 paces, although it might be 4 paces. It may be necessary to fulfill some other level of the thing- I really don't know.