debka_notion | First Time

I just put on my tfillin by myself for the first time. And now my left hand smells like leather- does that always happen, or just until the tfillin wear in? (What's the singular of tfillin, anyways?)

The actual experience was pretty neat, if a bit distracting from teh rest of praying, since it was new. But when I got them on, it had that same feeling of Rightness that I got the first time I saw people really putting them on (versus the biannual demonstration the rabbi gives to the 6th and 7th grades at the hebrew school I went to). It'll take some practice, but I'm pretty happy with step one.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

There is hope, then. Thank goodness. Not that I mind the smell of leather- it's just a bit disconcerting, and I expect it will be more so once I stop thinking about the fact that I put on tfillin that morning so much (aka once I start doing it regularly for a while). Sort of like having the smell of someone's perfume/cologne on your hands after you've finished dancing with them- only, well- I presume that G-d doesn't smell like leather. (THe closest analogy I could get between dancing with someone and wearing/praying with tfillin would, I guess, be dancing with G-d. It's a pretty idea, at least, if pretty inaccurate.)

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