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

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I'm confused - who wraps tfillin around their ring finger? Or do you just mean the wrapping afterwards, rather than the betrothal part? That would seem to be less significant.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Usually just from the way things work out, I end up around the ring finger while I'm still ending the "v'yadata et hashem" part of things- so I associate it. I wrap my three times around my middle finger, like everyone else I know. But since I'm still working on the pasuk, it sort of came to mind.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I think I tend to treat each wrap as belonging to a third of the pasuk, and sort of pause for a beat in between each.