Tefillin on a fading number
I am not 100% supportive of Chabad tefillin-wrapping "mitvto'im," but a post by a Chabad activist who tried to encourage an elderly Holocaust survivor to wrap tefillin really moved me.
The Lubavitcher proffers a set of tefillin to an old man at the Western Wall, asking him when was the last time he laid tefillin.
"He...