Alam wrote:devilcake wrote:Alam wrote:
Every time I hear about Jehovah's Witnesses I 'm like damn that's insane lol and then I remember our crazies go around giving women candles and asking men to wrap leather straps around their arms with them. I guess we all have our own weirdos. Hm.
What are the purposes of the candles and leather straps
Women light candles on Shabbat to mark it's beginning. The leather straps are a prayer thing, you're supposed to do it every morning, it's connected to a black box that has Torah scrolls (is that what they're called in English Idk) that you put on your forehead and another one you put on your arm. It has something to do with the exodus from Egypt I think? And it's supposed to symbolize uhmm faith in God and submission to him or whatever I don't know I'm trans I never had a bar mitzvah😭
Anyway it's called tefillin and it looks like this

Interesting