וְהָיָה֩ לְךָ֨ לְא֜וֹת עַל־יָֽדְךָ֗ וּלְזִכָּרוֹן֙ בֵּ֣ין עֵינֶ֔יךָ לְמַ֗עַן תִּֽהְיֶ֛ה תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהֹוָ֖ה בְּפִ֑יךָ כִּ֚י בְּיָ֣ד חֲזָקָ֔ה הוֹצִֽאֲךָ֥ יְהֹוָ֖ה מִמִּצְרָֽיִם: "And it shall be to you as a sign upon your hand and as a remembrance between your eyes, in order that the law of the Lord shall be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the Lord took you out of Egypt." (Shemos 13:9) וְהָיָ֤ה לְאוֹת֙ עַל־יָ֣דְכָ֔ה וּלְטֽוֹטָפֹ֖ת בֵּ֣ין עֵינֶ֑יךָ כִּ֚י בְּחֹ֣זֶק יָ֔ד הֽוֹצִיאָ֥נוּ יְהֹוָ֖ה מִמִּצְרָֽיִם " And it shall be for a sign upon your hand and for ornaments between your eyes, for with a mighty hand did the Lord take us out of Egypt " (Shemos 13:16) There are four passages in the Torah that deal with the Mitzvah of wearing Teffilin. Two are in our parsha (" Kadesh " - 13:1-10 and " Vehaya ki veviakha " - 13:11-16) and two are found in Sefer Devarim (" Shema " 6:4-9 and " Vehaya im shamoa " - 11:13-22). Each of these four parshiyos are contained within our Teffilin. The Torah makes it clear that the Mitzvah of wearing Teffilin is intrinsically connected to Yetzias Mitzrayim. The question we will deal with this in this article is, how are Teffilin a sign and a remembrance of our exodus from Egypt? Furthermore, the Gemara in Kiddushin (35a) teaches that Teffilin are equivalent to the entire Torah as Chazal state: והיה לך לאות על ידך ולזכרון בין עיניך למען תהיה תורת ה‘ בפיך, הוקשה כל התורה כולה לתפילין “[These words] must be a sign on your arm and a reminder in the cent
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