Is there a commandment to hug a cow's skin?

Tefillin, Torah scroll and mezuzah make cow's skin. How does such a material thing become sacred to a state of interest to hug and kiss? Blessing of Blessings, page 23

Is there a commandment to hug a cow's skin?

The Talmud in Tractate Berachot, page 29, states that "because he will not take tefillin, he did not say that he and Sharonhu Rabbanan Nanteran." Tefillin?

What do tefillin consist of? The houses of tefillin, the parchment of tefillin, the parchment of the Torah scroll, the parchment of the mezuzah, all are of cow's skin. How to hug a Torah scroll? In this embrace, they hug a cow's skin. Rabbi Chaim David Kowalski, Digital Gemara presenter, explained that "from the moment there are pure letters in it, letters written by the commandment of a God-fearing writer he is directing in writing, he is currently seeing God. By this intent, he sanctified the material, and became It to something spiritually high. "

Embrace a Torah scroll. Second laps in Nahal Sorek. Illustration (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Second laps at Simchat Torah, Yad Binyamin at Nahal Sorek Regional Council, October 21, 2019 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The Digital Gemara is the first venture of its kind led by Rabbi Haim David Kowalski, founder and head of the Daily Page Lights organization, in which anyone can be part of the hundreds of thousands around the country and the world who regularly study one Gemara page daily by watching a short daily video clip. The Babylonian Talmud in its most popular version has 2,711 pages. Rabbi Kowalski's Digital Gemara is presented, and through it, you will meet every day at significant and fascinating points related to daily life, based on the daily study of the Gemara.

Rabbi Meir Shapiro conceived the idea of ​​regular daily study somewhere in 1923. Rabbi Shapiro had one major goal: to encourage all levels of the public to set times for Torah study and to create a common denominator among all learners, regardless of class, profession, or country of origin. Today, 96 years after the initiative launched, hundreds of thousands of Jews across the country and the world are studying together in a regular learning cycle that lasts seven and a half years. The last cycle of the daily page began a few days ago, joining thousands of people who have not shared it so far.

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Praying correctly is a virtue of salvation: tractate blessings, page 23