I forgot my tefillin while traveling, so I decided to look at Amazon. I know that Amazon is the sketchiest place to look and no one would recommend it, but I was just curious (and I’ll be able to borrow from someone, so I don’t really need it).
In the product’s pictures, they show papers with signatures and a phone number from Israel. I’m almost certain I had these same papers when I bought tefillin in a French-Sephardi shop in Mea Shearim that only had that one style—at several times the price. I spoke French with him for a while before saying I was looking for new tefillin. He said he had a set and almost everyone was selling the same thing (for Sephardim at leaset), so I decided I could trust him (I didn’t like the other places I visited). But now it seems that either my set from Mea Shearim isn’t kosher, I got ripped off, or (less likely) the Amazon seller is imitating the paperwork of a real Israeli sofer. I’ll have mine checked by a sofer when I get home, but I fear something’s up..
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