Have no fear, there is a facebook group here to save us from the falling tefillin:
My Tefillin Shel Rosh is not on my forehead!
The group has diagrams of correct tefillin positions and pictures of members with tefillin.
It is an open group, so as expected it includes women who wear tefillin, before you go crazy, just remember Rashi's daughters among many women who we have stories about wearing tefillin.
(EDIT - While many stories can not be varrified, one intresting one I suggest you look into is the story of Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir)
Other controversies in the group include, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's tefillin placement:
More on that can be found here.
A great line is
The group has diagrams of correct tefillin positions and pictures of members with tefillin.
It is an open group, so as expected it includes women who wear tefillin, before you go crazy, just remember Rashi's daughters among many women who we have stories about wearing tefillin.
(EDIT - While many stories can not be varrified, one intresting one I suggest you look into is the story of Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir)
Other controversies in the group include, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's tefillin placement:
R'Hillel Chayim Yisraeli (Israel) wrote
at 2:23am on March 9th, 2007I have received my very first hate mail! Yay! I was criticized for the comments I made about Rabbi Schneerson's tefillin. Well, let me tell you, I'm proud of that! And Yes, my Hebrew IS good enough to understand what the Shulchan Arukh says about the proper place of the Shel Rosh! So, rebbe or no rebbe, halakhah is halakhah. Halakhah doesn't play favourites, my friends. A tzaddik is a tzaddik based on the halakhah he keeps, not the halakhah that he breaks. But this is what makes me a misnaged, I guess. Well, I'm proud of it.
More on that can be found here.
A great line is
If you think a dead man is the messiah, though, there's no point continuing this conversation since in my mind there's no difference between you and any other Christian.
And I'd rather be in the company of frum, tefillin-wearing women than a dead halakhah-breaking messiah.
