Connecting a direct zoom to the creator of the world:
"Someone can enlighten my eyes on what is wrapped around his head and arms", wondered the tweeter who calls himself "Investigating the crap out of every one of them", and attached a picture of Amos Tamam wrapped in tallit and tefillin from the series in question Starring "Journey Warning."
He added: "I saw it in the series and I want to know what these squares that look like GoPro cameras are. What their importance is in Judaism."
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"Travel Warning" (translated into English as "The Girl from Oslo") is an Israeli-Israeli suspense series starring Amos Tamam that aired on Hot and Netflix. With its rise to Netflix a few days ago, it almost immediately became the fourth most watched series on Netflix in the world, after the new season of "Paper House", accumulating 20 million hours of viewing in just the first week of its launch.
But one can only assume that the fact that the series is so popular has brought with it quite a few questions to the huge audience that is of course not Jewish, and hence to the question asked by a person who has never met a Jew up close - what are the tefillin.
The tweet also caught Tamam's eye, and it was shared on his Instagram yesterday (Wednesday) as he wrote in Hebrew and English: "Go Pro camera on forehead. Now go explain to someone outside what a tefillin is."
Surfers of course were thrilled at the sight of the tweet.
"King" wrote Ofira Asaig in response and Maor Zaguri added: "What an international kiddush you are doing."
Another surfer wrote "Huge, a stranger will not understand this" and a fourth offered a creative explanation: "Placing a tefillin is like connecting with a zoom to the Creator of the world."
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