{"id":11411,"date":"2025-12-10T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11411"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:31:44","slug":"tefillin","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/tefillin\/","title":{"rendered":"173. Tefillin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The hand&nbsp;<em>Tefillin<\/em>&nbsp;are placed on the weaker hand, which is the left. There are seven bindings there, corresponding to the seven qualities. Each binding is regarded as ascents and descents, but at the same time they advance, meaning that in each wheel, as they go up, there must be a point of descent, or it is impossible to ascend. 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