This isn't new, a few months ago a woman at a table in Jerusalem approached my daughter and asked if she wanted to lay Tfillin, and a friend of hers had a similar experience in Tel Aviv.


Problem is, from what I recall when I studied this issue many years ago, the Halacha is that it is permitted for a woman to lay Tfilin, but only if she accepts the obligation upon herself. i.e., if she agrees to lay Tfilin once (as a shtik in the midrachov), she is obligating herself to put on Tfilin every weekday for the rest of her life (I'm sure one of the Talmedei Chachamim on this blog can back me up with a source, or correct me).
I wonder if the women running the stand inform people of that before asking them to lay Tfilin.

M.Sedley - you can be sure that those women approaching women to lay tefilin have absolutely NO idea of any halacha pertaining to Tefilin or any other mitzvah. This is just an agenda to water down as much as possible true Yiddishkeit. Would be surprising if they even know what the word 'halacha' means. This is an ongoing battle they have with Torah Judaism, as part of a world agenda of ridding the world of 'religion', in general.

It is my contention that Halacha does obligate many women to wear tefillin.
The reasoning behind my position can be found here - and it is, to the best of my knowledge, rock solid:
https://beisvaad.blogspot.com/2012/12/women-that-are-obligated-to-wear.html

Eliezer: Whatever, there is good reason, am sure, for millenia, that all of our greatest Sages, etc., never implemented this mitzvah for Jewish women anywhere in the world..