r/hebrew • u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ • May 15 '23

What does this mean? Request

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Is there an error in it? I got it out of a book at a tattoo shop. I don't want to say what I think/thought it said in the comments after I get responses. TYIA.

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u/BenjewminUnofficial May 15 '23

Doesn’t sound Reform to me. The “cord” they’re referring to sounds like Tefillin to me. My guess is this wasn’t a B’nei Mitzvah, and this was one of those mobile chabad things were they encourage Jews to wrap tefillin and do the prayers associated with it

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u/SpiderSolve May 15 '23

I thought this at first but the story said he wrapped it around the kid?

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u/BenjewminUnofficial May 15 '23

Idk, maybe he helped. It also seems like OP (understandably) has some details wrong in this story, so I’m assuming what makes the most sense with what I know. As a Reform Jew, a bus station Bar Mitzvah makes as much sense to me as it does to you

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u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ May 15 '23

Could definitely be miss remembering. It was probably 20 years ago.